20-Way Linux Graphics Card Comparison For Total War: Three Kingdoms

[shmerl]

Are you using stock or custom cards for RX 5700 / 5700 XT? With better cooling, they perform better too, like any 7 nm chips, so if you are using stock, better get something like Sapphire Pulse cards for them. They are more adequate.

[Michael]

Are you using stock or custom cards for RX 5700 / 5700 XT? With better cooling, they perform better too, like any 7 nm chips, so if you are using stock, better get something like Sapphire Pulse cards for them. They are more adequate.

Stock, that's all I have. It's been a number of years since Sapphire or other AMD AIBs sent out review samples to me for Linux tests.

[Michael]

Is this a Vulkan or an OpenGL game? In other words, did the benchmark use radv or radeonsi?

As mentioned in the article, Vulkan game and using Mesa 19.2-dev, thus RADV.

[Venemo]

As mentioned in the article, Vulkan game and using Mesa 19.2-dev, thus RADV.

Right, sorry I didn't notice that! In this case it'd also be interesting to add AMDVLK and/or its pro version to the comparison. What do you think?

[nuetzel]

With current Mesa drivers...

Now, do it again with Navi/radeonsi updates...
Starting, here:
radeonsi/gfx10: fix the legacy pipeline by storing as_ngg in the shader cache
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/me...3ec6a3234935a2

over
radeonsi: align scratch and ring buffer allocations for faster memory access

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=40e5ac45aea3b226e7ef904ba8cb1dbb2654ce08

to
radeonsi: fix scratch buffer WAVESIZE setting leading to corruption
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/me...b5097b0fd0be82

[TazKhaelyor]

Thank you for the comparison !

Even with support still seeming a bit dodgy, I'm pretty happy with ordering a RX5700 (MSI custom).

[nuetzel]

Thank you for the comparison !

Even with support still seeming a bit dodgy, I'm pretty happy with ordering a RX5700 (MSI custom).

Of course.
Navi seems to be nice, but I'll wait for big Navi or later 'cause I need 'new' 4k+ monitors then, too...

[muncrief]

Michael is the man!

I could barely do a two way, even when I was young!

You see, now do you see? I'm hilarious!

[humbug]

Looks like poor optimization. Hitting 60fps ultra is extremely difficult both at 1080p and 1440p. High settings performance is also bad, you need a vega 56 class GPU for 1080p high 60fps.

[theriddick]

Hopefully I will be able to get a 2080TI in another month or so, provided the Australia economy doesn't collapse any further between now and then.
Going to be great! I just wish nvidia would bring all these nice windows features to linux which lacks so much!

Gaming in the apocalypse with a 2080TI will be great!