I will say that I was very pleasantly surprised this past weekend. I just got my new Steam controller in the mail after the holiday sale, and I hooked it up and installed GRID Autosport. My aging Phenom II x6 1055t and Radeon 7850 (1GB) are able to sustain nice and fluid framerates using the radeonsi mesa driver (radeon kernel driver, linux 4.9, 1920x1200). Any issues with that game are due to the fact that I took a bit of a break from racing games and I'm having to relearn skills now.
This is a huge contrast to a few years ago when firing up TF2 led to 5-10fps with multi-second-long pauses all the time due to shader compilation triggering.
I'll still be buying a new CPU/GPU this year when I rebuild my desktop, but it's pretty awesome what the open-source mesa drivers can pull off on my aging hardware.
I don't see myself buying a 4k monitor anytime soon (not willing to give up my dual-monitors, and don't have the desk space for 2x 27+" monitors), so ~1080p performance is still where I'll probably be looking to hit a sweet spot..
This is a huge contrast to a few years ago when firing up TF2 led to 5-10fps with multi-second-long pauses all the time due to shader compilation triggering.
I'll still be buying a new CPU/GPU this year when I rebuild my desktop, but it's pretty awesome what the open-source mesa drivers can pull off on my aging hardware.
I don't see myself buying a 4k monitor anytime soon (not willing to give up my dual-monitors, and don't have the desk space for 2x 27+" monitors), so ~1080p performance is still where I'll probably be looking to hit a sweet spot..
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