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AMD confident in Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs launching in 2020
30 Jul 2020 at 6:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MohandevirIt seems there are brands specialized in Nvidia and brands specialized in AMD... From what I get, MSI is in the Nvidia camp.
Yes, Sapphire is the primary AMD partner.

AMD confident in Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs launching in 2020
29 Jul 2020 at 4:08 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Duke TakeshiCan't buy an AMD GPU as I'm doing machine learning and Nvidia cards are much better at that.
They are not better, but Nvidia locked many AI libraries into using CUDA instead of portable APIs like Vulkan or OpenCL. So these libraries make it look like it's "better" because they simply don't work with anything but Nvidia.

That's why CUDA is so disgusting.

Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV
29 Jul 2020 at 2:00 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TheRiddickMaybe valve can get some push going on NVIDIA working under Wayland?
That's a futile expectation. The only way this kind of problem could be fixed is Nvidia starting using open source kernel driver (either their own or Nouveau). Until that happens, don't expect progress. It would take them decades to support anything modern. That in theory could happen, but Nvidia is clearly not in a rush to do it.

Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV
28 Jul 2020 at 7:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

I wouldn't rely on those scripts anyway. They are not maintained in the long term. You can always analyze what fixes are needed and apply them yourself.

Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV
28 Jul 2020 at 6:28 pm UTC Likes: 5

I agree, that should be optional. But I wouldn't mind prefixes sharing the same version of Wine to use symlinks for all objects that don't require overrides. Like dummy dlls and such. If override is present, then it naturally shouldn't be deduplicated.

Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV
28 Jul 2020 at 5:42 pm UTC Likes: 2

He could be working on ACO, since it's using C++. Great to have more developers working on it!

Synergia is a vibrant cyberpunk visual novel that stands out and it's available now
28 Jul 2020 at 6:47 am UTC

Heh. macOS is basically done for gaming. I don't expect developers to make games for it much anymore.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
27 Jul 2020 at 3:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

Yes, this whole last X months question was rather strange. A simple "do you use" is a lot more to the point.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
26 Jul 2020 at 8:23 pm UTC

Quoting: LightkeyOne suggestion would be untangling the GPU models mess, adding filters for card families or market segments.
Yeah, something like low end, mid range, high end filters could be useful.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
26 Jul 2020 at 6:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

Some notable trends:

* KDE got ahead of Gnome, so finally that balanced out Unity merging into Gnome, which made Gnome ahead in the past.
* AMD GPU usage is nearing 39% and growing and CPU is also growing now at almost 46%. Impressive.
* Most popular GPU model - Radeon RX 580. RX 5700 XT is fourth, but on the quick rise.