Well, when I buy GPUs / monitors I do it based on Linux performance, not on Windows one. And kind of estimating how certain games would work. That's why I'm not in a rush to buy 4K screens :)

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Obviously Windows benchmarks don't tell the story of how it's on Linux. Ideally we would have native Linux games using Vulkan, but that's still a rarity. Most high end games like that are Windows only. But I'm not going to start using Windows because of that :)

May be when Star Citizen will release Linux version with their Vulkan renderer there will be some heavy native game to test.

And if 7900XT is better than 6800XT then why not. Drivers are already good and are improving. Translation hit will be around, so that should be taken into account.

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Quoting: TheRiddickThen you should probably avoid running it through Linux/DXVK then... just saying. Translation layers and Linux drivers are always going to be a big issue for next-gen gaming and reaching those performance demands.

Well, we are here gaming on Linux, aren't we? So Windows isn't my consideration :) I obviously evaluate it all from perspective of Linux gaming and choose hardware with that in mind.

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Haven't used ray tracing in it (besides periodic checks if it's working), since radv doesn't work with CP2077 yet for it. Supposedly pipeline callables aren't yet properly implemented.

But that's exactly the point. I want to play it on native resolution and preferably best settings (not counting RT at least). But I also want high enough framerate, preferably something higher than 60. So it hitting 90 on 2560x1440 without any upscaling is pretty good. 4K just wouldn't work well enough for such scenario.

My point is, if you go for 4K, it means you want a better image quality. If you need to upscale becasue GPU can't cope with it kind of undermines the whole idea of that since it goes in the opposite direction image quality wise.

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Quoting: TheRiddickIf your buying a monitor based on the shittiest performing game you own then you're forever going to be stuck at 1080/1440p...

I'd measure it by games I care about to work well enough. I.e. for instance I wanted to play Cyberpunk 2077 with decent framerate. That means I'm not going to play it on 4K screen. I get around 80-90 fps on 2560x1440 with 6800 XT. I can imagine framerate tanking way too much on 4K. And for these games I want good image quality, not upscaling. So this is a metric that shows that 4K just isn't ready for me to buy into.

I agree though, it depends on the types of games. Some not very demanding games can have acceptable framerate on 4K with such GPU.

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Quoting: TheRiddickFSR is a good option to keep native resolution while tweaking the internal render resolution.

Have you ever tried to run a 4k screen at 1440p or 1080p resolution?

I see. But what's the point of having a 4K screen if you want to run something at lower resolution? It's like overpaying for something you aren't using.

And I agree, better to always run LCD at native resolution. But then I want the game to run at it. That's why I'm not buying 4K screens (yet). GPUs can't sustain that with high enough framerates for demanding games.

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Quoting: TheRiddick$999USD TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!! GIVE IT TO ME!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx1PCWkOb3Y&t=13s [External Link]

:)

Quoting: TheRiddickWondering if FSR3 will be exclusive to RDNA3.. seems like it should run just fine on RDNA2 as well, unsure about RDNA1 cards...

I doubt it should be limited, but may be it can use something from it for better performance? Not sure if they use any AMD specific Vulkan extensions.

Though for a $1000 card, I don't see any point in using FSR.

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Quoting: F.Ultraedit: AFAIK also those ML extensions have to do with the learning part of the AI research and not the end result of said research but then again I have basically zero knowledge of ML so should just shut up :)

Well, imagine a game that adapts to the player in some way. So learning part can be useful for that I suppose.

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Quoting: F.UltraIt's for people doing machine learning, they use GPU:s to handle the vast amounts of data so AMD, nVidia (and now Intel) are implementing new functions on their cards to improve the performance in that area. Nothing that helps the rest of us who only use these for displaying graphics and playing games.

Nothing stops games from using AI you know, for more realistic behaviors and simulation, not for graphics :)

It feels like a lot of games are running after better graphics but really almost no one is trying to improve world simulation quality.

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Interesting. Are these games DRM-free?

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