Mesa 24.3 Delivers Big Performance Win For Aging AMD Navi 10 GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 24.3 Delivers Big Performance Win For Aging AMD Navi 10 GPUs

The upcoming Mesa 24.3 graphics driver stack will deliver a very nice performance win with the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver for aging RDNA1 "GFX10" graphics processors...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-NGG-Culling-RDNA1

[Steffo]

Open Source is really cool! 😍

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Nice. I do wish articles about GPUs on any site would give specific example GPU models though instead of just code names. For anyone curious...

Navi 10 = RX/W 5600/5700 series
Navi 14 = RX/W 5300/5500 series

The 5700 series cards are quite cheap on eBay these days. I replaced every aging GPU in various machines here and for family members with RDNA 1 cards. Too bad about the 5500 series not being enabled by default though. I have several Radeon Pro W5500 cards for "basic computer stuff" type machines for family. Nice single slot + 1x 6 pin form factor, and fast enough for light gaming.

Edit: RDNA 1 is also the floor for FSR 3 frame generation AFAIR.

[varikonniemi]

LOL, you call these cards aging? Jesus christ the ADHD generation is in full swing.

[DanL]

LOL, you call these cards aging?

Technically, anything released is "aging". At least he didn't call them old.
And no, it doesn't have anything to do with ADHD. Think of it from the viewpoint of a hardware reviewer who is generally focused on latest and greatest stuff. These cards are pre-pandemic (5 years old) and two newer generations of GPU have come out since then.

[siyia]

Nice i own RX 5500 XT.

[Anux]

LOL, you call these cards aging?

Me peering hard at my RX480 "don't listen to them, you show no signs of aging"

[Venemo]

Navi 10 = RX/W 5700 series

The RX 5600 series is also Navi 10.

Nice i own RX 5500 XT.

RX 5500 XT is Navi 14, and is not affected by this change because NGG is disabled due to a HW bug.

[Venemo]

LOL, you call these cards aging? Jesus christ the ADHD generation is in full swing.

Time flies. These GPUs are holding up quite well, considering they were released more than 5 years ago.

Me peering hard at my RX480 "don't listen to them, you show no signs of aging"

Don't worry, there is probably still plenty of life left in that RX 480.

[baka0815]

Me peering hard at my RX480 "don't listen to them, you show no signs of aging"

Yeah, I'm really happy with my 580 as well.

Just out of curiosity, what would be the current gen equivalent to my 580?