Sapphire Radeon R7 260X: A Great Linux Graphics Card

[justmy2cents]

i would go with amd if radeonsi gained gl4 and dpm by default. otherwise nvidia gtx650ti which is same price as this one. there is simply charm in running oss drivers. i would have 0 problems to sacrifice some functionalities in order to avoid blob

[nightmarex]

I, and many more people do serious gaming on GNU/Linux. Like you would say: "Your point?".

On an AMD card....

[GreatEmerald]

On this amd card especially r5 235x and before, you must be carefully because this cards: on r5 235x, r5 235, r5 230 this card is HD6450 (160 shaders / 4 rops) renamed (only differ on stock clocks for example r5 235 stay on 775mhz and r5 235x stay on 875mhz)

And r5 220 is HD5450 renamed (80 shaders / 4 rops)


this links have information about this cards (thanks to gpuboss for information)

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R5-230-vs-Radeon-R5-220

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R5-235X-vs-Radeon-R5-235

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R5-240-vs-Radeon-R5-235X

Only r5 for this moment have gcn arquitecture is r5 240 if dont appear some radeon vliw4 renamed card

I'm well aware of that. But my point, and the point of AMD for the renaming, is that these are still being actively sold and are good choices for HTPCs. It's the difference between them that interests me. You generally want the quietest, coolest, most energy efficient hardware for HTPCs, which also has just enough power to display accelerated video.

[pinguinpc]

Good to see power consumption graphs. The GT 610 and the APU win hands down, so it makes me wonder how the R7 240, R5 240, R5 235X and R5 210 would fare in comparison... Their TDPs aren't that different.

On this amd card especially r5 235x and before, you must be carefully because this cards: on r5 235x, r5 235, r5 230 this card is HD6450 (160 shaders / 4 rops) renamed (only differ on stock clocks for example r5 235 stay on 775mhz and r5 235x stay on 875mhz)

And r5 220 is HD5450 renamed (80 shaders / 4 rops)


this links have information about this cards (thanks to gpuboss for information)

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R5-230-vs-Radeon-R5-220

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R5-235X-vs-Radeon-R5-235

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R5-240-vs-Radeon-R5-235X

Only r5 for this moment have gcn arquitecture is r5 240 if dont appear some radeon vliw4 renamed card

[Calinou]

But in the end, linux is not ready yet for serious gaming.

I, and many more people do serious gaming on GNU/Linux. Like you would say: "Your point?".

[FutureSuture]

I made the horrible mistake of trusting a phoronix article a while ago (that praised ATI's improving Linux support), and bought an ATI card. What a huge mistake. Sold it and bought Nvidia as soon as possible.
If you want to play AAA games on Linux with the binary driver, get Nvidia.

At present, AMD's open source driver should run every game except Natural Selection 2 and Metro: Last Light just fine from what I understand. By the time more games that push the graphical frontiers arrive on Linux, the open source driver, at the rate at which it has been improving, should be quite capable.

[GreatEmerald]

Good to see power consumption graphs. The GT 610 and the APU win hands down, so it makes me wonder how the R7 240, R5 240, R5 235X and R5 210 would fare in comparison... Their TDPs aren't that different.

[schmidtbag]

I made the horrible mistake of trusting a phoronix article a while ago (that praised ATI's improving Linux support), and bought an ATI card. What a huge mistake. Sold it and bought Nvidia as soon as possible.
If you want to play AAA games on Linux with the binary driver, get Nvidia.

You here are the idiot. Michael over the years has repeatedly stated that he recommends Nvidia for linux if you want serious performance. In this article, he said he recommended this GPU as an upgrade. Just because he's praising the improvements and is satisfied with Sapphire's product, it doesn't mean he's recommending you use AMD products for AAA gaming.

But in the end, linux is not ready yet for serious gaming. It's close, but not even nvidia should convince you otherwise.

[pinguinpc]

I made the horrible mistake of trusting a phoronix article a while ago (that praised ATI's improving Linux support), and bought an ATI card. What a huge mistake. Sold it and bought Nvidia as soon as possible.
If you want to play AAA games on Linux with the binary driver, get Nvidia.

Its true, on my case its same situation with nvidia, i have testing wine for a time (ATI/AMD-NVIDIA)

http://gamesonwine.blogspot.com/

And nvidia offers performance at most important thing compatibility

If you want use mining, ATI/AMD is your option


Back to topic its incredible, sapphire provides first amd card to phoronix and amd not send cards to phoronix meanwhile nvidia send cards to phoronix (november)

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUxNDE

[mark45]

And what should I do when I need powerful, cheap, power efficient OpenCL card?

In this case you need to buy a powerful, cheap, power efficient OpenCL card.