However Google already have NVIDIA beat in one respect which is Linux support since Stadia works on Linux, GeForce Now currently does not.

More importantly, Stadia actually runs Linux, while Geforce Now runs Windows. Not something Linux gamers should be striving to support.

Quoting: melkemindI hope Google learns from Nvidia and starts offering a away to play games you already have in your Steam/GOG libraries rather than having to buy online-only versions of those games.

For whatever reason, Google decided not to use Wine, so they are only adding native games which will be a slow process. If anything, I expect Valve to roll out some streaming service where Wine will be used to expand the library of native Linux games. After all, they directly invested into Wine / Proton development.

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Just tested it, and it's too buggy to play. At least intro simply gives some black screen. Not worth it IMHO, since developers aren't likely to continue fixing it. I'll try Windows version in Wine.

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Linux version came out on GOG!

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I wonder if some engines will use WebGPU as a higher level over Vulkan, though probably for engines it makes sense to go as low as possible to have more control over performance.

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Quoting: ShmerlIt never came out on GOG so far.

Was it announced?

No idea, but I see no reason for them not to do it.

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Sounds bad. As a backer, I never got DRM-free release of Underworld Ascendant. And now with this, it means it will likely never come out.

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It never came out on GOG so far.

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https://gpuopen.com/concurrent-execution-asynchronous-queues/ [External Link]

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Quoting: peta77Vulkan allows parallel access to the driver, but actual communication to the GPU is still sequential.

Not if you are using different GPU queues. Modern GPUs have more than one, and they should be used in parallel for maximum performance. So real parallelism on the CPU side (through multiple cores) paired with real parallelism on the GPU side (through units that process compute and graphics queues) allow maximizing performance, as long as your code takes advantage of that.

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How many are used by a game? Not a lot, my 8 cores (+HT) have never been fully used by any game that I know/played.

Depends on the game. dxvk for example uses a percentage of all available cores for some tasks. So if something is CPU bound and can be parallelized, good games will parallelize it according to available hardware.

Games using a few cores is a thing of the past, before Vulkan was a thing. Single core performance is oversold, it doesn't matter as much as it did in the previous decade.

And you can say goodbye to Intel's high frequency of individual cores, once they'll switch to smaller node process. Physics will dictate such limitation. So get used to what AMD are already doing now, Intel will have no choice but to deal with the same reality.

All that said, I agree that Threadripper is surely an overkill for gaming. Get a recent Ryzen 9 if you want a high end CPU.

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