How to make the 7900 GRE look better than the 6900 XT: a one-step guide
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There was also I think a 6850 or 6950 mentioned by HU on youtube, which is also for china. The chinese and 3rd world country users that buy used are getting screwed with this one...
I'm sorry for the guy I just sold my 6650 XT to :-( I just shipped it to him like a month ago..
There was no warning for this either, as far as I can tell.
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Link to the video, https://youtu.be/KsjjFr9mB7w
TIL if I set both the image and the link, we cant access the link in OP
Aww poor windows users.
I’ll continue to buy AMD because of their excellent open source drivers on Linux.
But since AMD stopped optimizing their drivers for specific games, does that not apply to linux too?
I don’t know, but I do know that many games perform even better on Linux these days.
As a software engineer, I will tell you that to put game-specific optimizations in drivers seems like a horrifying practice that should never have become commonplace, and probably leads to piles of hacks and unmanageable complexity. I have doubts as to whether Mesa and/or the Linux kernel would accept such a thing in open-source drivers.
In the long run, we’re probably better off with clean, maintainable code. I’d rather have that than a few extra FPS any day.
Yea that's true, it's probably a mess to optimize for individual games. Depends how much of an impact it makes to have those optimiziations I guess.
The worst thing about Linux are it's user base (and power management).
Flexing the fact that you use Linux, while recommending the most dumbed down and locked-down Linux distro, is quite ironic.
it's not locked down it uses virtualization and containers. it's just a different way of thinking about things. you can literally install arch in one click and use everything that exists there, same with Debian
And the recommendations to buy AMD now stop, until fuckery stops.
Not really, I'd still have slightly worse drivers than a fire hazard and half the VRAM with a control app from the 2010's and non-existent linux support.