Quoting: LinuxDonaldDon't tested performance difference on opengl and Vulkan. But Vulkan render works very good with mesa 17.0.1 :-)
With AMD r290

Thats good to hear, I will be testing with my RX 480 after work.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: m0nt3I checked the website, but did not find mention of SteamOS, just steam.

It's mentioned in the list at the bottom of the"Game vision" column on the WMD page linked in the article. I'm assuming they mistakenly copied it from the previous site and have no intention of delivering.

I know, that what prompted me to check their actual website, was wanting to call them out on it.

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I checked the website, but did not find mention of SteamOS, just steam. The actual website that is.

http://www.projectcarsgame.com/info.html [External Link]

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Has harvest rate been adjusted?

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The blender render performance is significantly worse in Windows, I rendered at 2:24 in windows vs 1:14 settings appear to be the same.

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I am not a blender expert by any stretch of the imagination. My temps are ok, I get by on a lower voltage than most people I have seen with an 8320 at 4.5. I get by on 1.32V CPU temp will peak around 55-56C under prime95 and 70C on the CPU socket. I am using a Phanteks TC-14-PE.

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Quoting: Alm888Too bad they are a little late to the party...

AMD basically butchered AM3+ FX processor line (no Steamroller or Excavator upgrade) thus making FX-83XX the EOL processors.

Granted, FX-8320E with overclocking to 4 GHz is quite impressive in multithreaded tasks (like CFD, ray-traced rendering or mass video converting) and almost on par with Core i5-6400 for basically 2/3 of its cost. But that's the best AMD can offer...

I'm highly sceptical about this 'Zen' generation. AMD can screw CPUs in favor of APUs yet again. Needless to say, my current CPU is sufficient for the next 5 years or so.

Quoting: XpanderRyzen had 35 sec

mine:

FX-8320@4,4ghz ~1:23

Mine FX-8320E@3,6GHz ~1:41

There is a sample setting that can be changed that can drastically reduce the time needed to render the image. No one is sure how many samples AMD had set for their benchmark. The default of 200, I score 1:14 with my 8320 @ 4.5 but at 100 samples I scored 00:37. There is a big forum discussion about it on techpowerup.

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Quoting: Comandante oardoSo... The bulldozer modules are very much alive with another name; instead of modules, now they are called cores...
The FX 8xxx was four cores and eight threads...
And now we have eight cores and sixteen threads with less TDP than the FX8xxx... Good sign! :)
I wonder how many FPU per core we have... :huh:

It will have 8 FPUs (1 per core, no modules like Bulldozer), the 16 thread is 8 core and two threads per core, SMT (Simultanius Multi-Threading), like Intel Hyper Threading.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: m0nt3Ubuntu needs a rolling release. Rolling release has been nice for me using opensource drivers. I dont have to worry about adding unofficial repositories and still get the latest stable drivers. The issue with rolling release is steam packaging old lib files that are incompatible with the opensource drivers.

If you want a rolling release, you can already use Debian testing.

It is not a true rolling release, as it has freezes states for when it moves into stable and it is not fitted with the larger repositories of Ubuntu, and due to its stance of remaining completely free there is no easy proprietary driver installation for instance or out of box support for things like audio and video decoding. in that case the user has to add the non-free repo.

And with Ubuntu's point releases system upgrades can cause breakage as can adding in unofficial repositories, which is why the rolling release would be nice.

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Ubuntu needs a rolling release. Rolling release has been nice for me using opensource drivers. I dont have to worry about adding unofficial repositories and still get the latest stable drivers. The issue with rolling release is steam packaging old lib files that are incompatible with the opensource drivers.

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