R600 Gallium3D Now Has Compute Shaders Working With NIR

[Mez']

The passive XFX RX 460 didn't actually require additional power according to a few YT videos and some reviews I was able to find. There were a few other non passive RX 460 cards released that worked just from the power of the PCIe slot.

Too bad mid range passive cards apparently aren't big sellers. Not a fan of the noise my XFX HD 7770 makes on full load. Some years back modded an early version Arctic Accelero S1 passive cooler to work on a HD 4650 with a modest 12% overclock, and it reaches only 55 degrees on load.

I completely agree with you.
I had a GeForce 6600 Silent back in the days. Then I lived on a laptop for years. But 3 years ago, I wanted to assemble a new setup in my old Antec HTPC case, and I looked for a passive card, and that XFX RX 460 was the best I found. Unfortunately it was too high to fit in my case and I bought a single fan RX 560 instead.
I bought a fanless XFX power supply though, which completely fried 2 years later in a bang (and cut the power in the process). I'm not sure I'm still confident in fanless. Yet, I believe there should be better solutions on the market, if only for GPUs. Up to the low mid-range market, it should be viable.

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There was a Radeon RX 460 from XFX 3 years ago (a power connector was required though). That's the most powerful AMD passive card to date if I'm not mistaken.

The passive XFX RX 460 didn't actually require additional power according to a few YT videos and some reviews I was able to find. There were a few other non passive RX 460 cards released that worked just from the power of the PCIe slot.

Too bad mid range passive cards apparently aren't big sellers. Not a fan of the noise my XFX HD 7770 makes on full load. Some years back modded an early version Arctic Accelero S1 passive cooler to work on a HD 4650 with a modest 12% overclock, and it reaches only 55 degrees on load.

[schmidtbag]

But then you don't meet one of his criterion either, which was to have open-source drivers.
Otherwise, Palit offers a passive GTX 1650.
Might be the most powerful passive card currently on the market.

There are open drivers, they're just not very good lol. On the other hand, neither is the GPU itself.

[Mez']

Raka555
There are passively cooled GT 1030s too, which don't require a power connector. Slightly slower than the 460 but a hell of a lot faster than the 4670.
Don't forget about having more modern features, too.

But then you don't meet one of his criterion either, which was to have open-source drivers.
Otherwise, Palit offers a passive GTX 1650.
Might be the most powerful passive card currently on the market.

[pal666]

Raka555
There are passively cooled GT 1030s too, which don't require a power connector. Slightly slower than the 460 but a hell of a lot faster than the 4670.
Don't forget about having more modern features, too.

i wouldn't consider "no drivers" particularly modern

[pal666]

I never understood why people always seem to ignore the big issues regarding wattage, such as fan noise and the heat dumped into the room. The cost of the extra wattage under load is often negligible for desktop users.

cost of wattage could be more than cost of product in the long run and cost of product is often non-negligible. noise is evil, heat can be controlled by air conditioner

[pal666]

one ought to consider that the amount of energy and other resources used in manufacture, recycling and logistics to build newer parts and discard the old ones is quite significant.

all that is already part of price

[pal666]

I have a fan-less hd4670. It uses so little power, it needs no additional power besides that from the PCIe slot.

slot provides 75 watt

[pal666]

GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 on the r600 driver is available only for select GPUs that have hardware FP64 implementation (Radeon HD 6900 and HD 5800 series). There is a software implementation of FP64, but it is currently used only by the Intel driver, see https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...64-Merged-Mesa. Thus all the other GPUs, including my 6670, are stuck to OpenGL 3.3.

if you don't really need fp64 you could override it via environment variable and get 4.0

[pal666]

if it just works for your workflow, e.g desktop, code, science, office use? Nope. Save money and resources, and use it another decade or two ;-)

depending on electricity prices you are unlikely to save money and resources by using 2-3 decades old chips