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Originally posted by ernstp View Post
The specifications (Vulkan, OpenGL, etc...) are much better these days and everything should look identical, there is very little room for adjusting things.
Also, some people said that the electrical CRT signals from some cards were better, but now everyone have digital connections so that's also gone...Originally posted by piotrj3 View Post
To add what ernstp said on Vulkan/DX12 there is even less room for that since Vulkan/DX12 kernels give much less options for drivers to manipulate something.
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Originally posted by zeb_ View Post
Can you please expand on that? Are concerns about stability or other aspects? I have used nVidia cards for quite a few years on an Archlinux system and they always worked fine with the proprietary driver. Now going open source is a big advantage in my opinion.
If I bought a 6800XT, I would have to start Linux in nomodeset, download firmware, use ppa for latest kernel, use ppa for latest mesa, use ppa for latest LLVM. Going by my 5700XT experience: some games work, some crash, browsers may crash, GIMP may crash. Crashes didn't stop for me until a year after 5700XT launch.
In 6 months, everything that the 6800XT needs will probably be in Ubuntu 21.04 and I will have to do nothing to make it work.
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Originally posted by BreezeDM View Post
If I bought a RTX 3080, I would have to start Linux in nomodeset, install NVIDIA driver from website or add a ppa since I use Ubuntu. Everything works great.
If I bought a 6800XT, I would have to start Linux in nomodeset, download firmware, use ppa for latest kernel, use ppa for latest mesa, use ppa for latest LLVM. Going by my 5700XT experience: some games work, some crash, browsers may crash, GIMP may crash. Crashes didn't stop for me until a year after 5700XT launch.
In 6 months, everything that the 6800XT needs will probably be in Ubuntu 21.04 and I will have to do nothing to make it work.
Also, 6800XT from 5700XT isn't as much of a change as GCN --> Navi was. I seriously doubt stability will be the same issue it was last time.
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Originally posted by lyamc View PostI've never once had to use nomodeset with AMD. I bought a 5500XT and a 5700XT and both worked out of the box with Ubuntu.
Originally posted by lyamc View PostAlso, 6800XT from 5700XT isn't as much of a change as GCN --> Navi was. I seriously doubt stability will be the same issue it was last time.
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Originally posted by BreezeDM View Post
If I bought a RTX 3080, I would have to start Linux in nomodeset, install NVIDIA driver from website or add a ppa since I use Ubuntu. Everything works great.
If I bought a 6800XT, I would have to start Linux in nomodeset, download firmware, use ppa for latest kernel, use ppa for latest mesa, use ppa for latest LLVM. Going by my 5700XT experience: some games work, some crash, browsers may crash, GIMP may crash. Crashes didn't stop for me until a year after 5700XT launch.
In 6 months, everything that the 6800XT needs will probably be in Ubuntu 21.04 and I will have to do nothing to make it work.
In 6 months you'll actually be able to buy a card.
amd engineer resitas goes over stock... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsYhb45uWX4
Last edited by onlyLinuxLuvUBack; 24 November 2020, 03:14 PM.
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I have to make a bit of a confession. I got a little too drunk last night, I woke up this morning feeling fairly hung over. I read through some of my posts I made here on this thread last night and I realize a few came across how I wouldn't have intended them to.
I think I owe a few apologies for some of my posts, I do apologize.
I really want to see Clover become highly successful. For many reasons I don't like ROCm, which I think I tried to explain my reasons in the wrong kinda ways.
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No worries... I only responded in detail because you do have good observations on things and if you think we are doing things wrong then I like to try and understand them so we can do something about it.
I would still be interested in your thoughts re: ROCm when time permits.Test signature
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