I Bought an AMD GPU for More Freedom 

9p protocol

You can technically download a SSD with Ramdisk lol.

just use cloud storage as swap space

Would you download a car?

Freedom

I was tempted to get one of those, I might do a high end AMD card in the future if I can pair it with a ryzen CPU optimized for it.

@@MentalOutlaw Sadly that AMD mess up the new 7000 gpu since the performance was meh plus the amd gpu being overheating

Saw a 6850 XT for cheap, I was very tempted to go for it

@@MentalOutlaw 5800x3D and 6900xt for gaming

@@MrTheinfoman AMD needs months to ramp up their releases, give it half a year and let's see what happens.

I used to use a 980 and a 1650S both were faster than the 580 except in Linux using DXVK then the 580 was noticibly faster than the 980 and on par with the 1650S. Probably due to the fact that the 16 series of cards has good Vulkan optimization while the 900 series has OK but not great Vulkan optimization while the 580 has very good Vulkan optimization.

@@Luke357 AMD's drivers are universally more optimized for Vulkan and Vulkan-based APIs (NixGL or the one from the guys that made Gamemode are good examples for that), while they are starting to become better in regards to utilizing OpenGL now, too. AMD's drivers also are quite a fair bit smaller, thus less redundant code and possibly regression of performance is less frequent than with NVIDIA.

I still have a gtx 970, I am looking to either upgrade to a 4070 or an rx 6800 xt. Not sure which yet!

Because you know what Linus Torvalds once said about NVidia

RT is still a meme. Almost no games have it and Devs are already abandoning it because it's extra work (Nvidia promised RT would make development easier)

@@spicynoodle7419 Not sure if copium or trolling. Devs are not abandoning RT, though you can say that the adoption rate is still rather slow. But unlike things like PhysX, it won't disappear. Soon all AAA that care about a graphics score will have RT. On the indie scene it will be probably completely missing for many years, except things made with Unreal Engine with Lumen. Probably Unity will have something like that too in not-so-distant future, if it doesn't already have (didn't check)

Earlier this year? So yesterday?

Did you know that opengl is 50% faster on linux?

i have random 80% frame loss on the same card and no clue as to why if anyone can share their experiences?

Performance increase is obvious if you're upgrading from 8 years old hardware to fairly recent one. Good on you though, my i7 8700k is 5 years old now I can feel it in almost every game.

@@themightywhatever4884 yeah was a big leap generationally but my old specs still ran pretty well for moderate work loads. In all honesty though most systems after 6th gen nowadays run very similarly for day to day desktop tasks (browsing, text editing, etc.) provided they are using a M2 SSD and bonus for a lightweight distro. Or at least i cant tell much of a difference. Really only major increase i see are being able to run more tasks at once and increased FPS/graphics quality in games

i envy you in a good way

I had an AMD card before (7 years ago) and the software experience was terrible which made me switch to a 2060 super. I hope AMD is as reliable now

AMD CPU's are getting cheaper to. I recently got an 5900x on sale for 235 dollars. And the thread count jump from rendering on my 4 thread dual core laptop to rendering on a proper rig with 12 cores, that was absolutely game changing. The difference between sitting on something for hours to having a similar task done in 20 to 30 minutes. The time you save on Rendering with modern hardware is absolutely unbelievable. I still remember trying to do graphic design work on my grandmothers' computer. Where it took 1 minute per frame to render something out. fucking incredible it is

As someone who has built multiple AMD pcs since mid 2020, the driver issues are basically gone now. The only issues you get is with performance on newer cards.

The RX 6600 beats a GTX 1080 by only consuming half the electric power of the latter. The RX 6600 is one of the most efficient cards for gamers. The fans are quite due to very low heatput even under load.

The RTX3060Ti is a much faster video card than a RX6600.

Bro got a graphics card on new year

@@relt_ - Sorry about that, I didn’t mean to word my comment like that. I didn’t actually get a graphics card on New Year’s. I just got confused since it was the start of a new year. I’ll edit my comment and fix that.

The RX 580 is just such a solid GPU for a tight budget

Victor i am so Honey your profile picture

@Kanyewestisfree Yea, that was one of the deciding issues. I had also been researching and found that AMD's FSR generally isn't as good as Nvidia's DLSS yet. Hopefully in the future when I get a new GPU it will be. Also RTX cards were cheaper at the time by a bunch, and for more performance. Don't get me wrong, I like AMD as a company more than NVIDIA. I'm even using a AMD processor currently.

@@youraveragemetalhead226 it used to be a high-end card back in 2016. time flies.

@@orlfman It's true, though NVidia started to open source their drivers, though only the ones for RTX 3000 or 2000 onwards. If they truly continue that path, he might be enjoying good, open source drivers for his 3070 Ti. Though it's been a bit silent on that front, I wouldn't bet on it happening. But can certainly hope so.

Yeah, basically a lot of toolchains have easy CUDA support, and what cards have CUDA?....

I sincerely hope ROCm gets mainstream adoption. CUDA is a mess, but is a necessary evil for HPC.

I agree, CUDA is way better in that field. I have used lots of software and and even some blender add-ons that only run on CUDA. Also MAYA only renders on CUDA

This.

As a 3D guy myself, I just ended up using windows with Nvidia, it just ended up saving me mayor headaches in the long run, its the price to pay sadly. Still im going to build a secondary Linux system with my 6800XT that I have, but my win10 RTX3090 will be my daily driver for that

@@ChicoDaChina Source?

Hello m8, I know this comment is quite old but would appreciate a little insight into your experience gaming on Linux :) thanks

@@gaurav1231928 I'm very happy with it. There are definitely some frustrating moments. Gamers who have no patience will find it difficult or intolerable to switch. Some games are just off the table. If you're someone who is against Microsoft's shady behavior and increasing tendency to act like they have more rights to your computer than you do, it's probably worth making the switch. I find most gamers are pretty spineless and will bend over backwards to excuse Microsoft's actions if it means they get their fix with whatever games they're into. That sometimes turns into Windows gamers making snide remarks on forums when discussing bugs or issues with the Linux version of games. If you take pride in standing against injustices, Linux gaming is the way to go. Especially if you enjoy solving problems and having the choice to customize your system in all sorts of ways. I personally recommend AMD video cards for this, as the open-source drivers are FAR better than the default Nouveau drivers for nVidia cards, due to AMD actually cooperating with the open source community. nVidia's proprietary drivers are available and do work well most of the time. But I had some massive headaches dealing with them in the past. With Wayland, the desktop experience is great. Smooth window movement without tearing that sometimes is an issue on Xorg. Xorg may be necessary if you want to use OBS, though. But at a high refresh rate (144hz or more) the screen tearing while moving windows isn't very noticeable. Protondb is a great place to check for compatibility with Windows-only games. I've got a few of them that I play often. Due to devs mostly testing on Windows systems, there are cases where a Windows version of a game running with Proton will perform better than the native Linux version. ARK is a great example of that. I'm not sure if their Linux version even works anymore. It was horrible last I tried it. Anyway, I say give it a shot. If you're looking to commit long-term, be prepared for the occasional hiccup and need to solve problems. But knowing you're one of the few gamers who is taking a stand and showing some backbone is far more rewarding than playing some title that only runs on Windows, IMO.

Depending on the AMD card you want you can find them cheap on eBay or Amazon.

Its easy to get but ebay doesnt ship to middle east

Endeavour sure is nice (except for the rolling releases, but that's a personal thing anyway)

@pogodemon that's exactly the workaround I use to get GPU recording done.

Try ROCm

can it be called FOSS if it has some proprietary blobs? just asking, n00b here.

@@mendoxx097 depends on what you need done. Are you looking for purism to achieve perfect security based on what you do? Or are you an average schmo who plays steam games? If you do the latter a few blobs that aren't the absolute core of dependencies rarely matter to you.

​@mendoxx097 those blobs run on the GPU itself, so its not really a concern from a security/paranoia standpoint.

It does but with a fat asterisk, it takes more tinkering and doesn't always work quite as well but it works most of the time

​@@Shuroii And if your card is too old, like the RX 580 shown that runs on the Polaris architecture, getting those to run at all is a huge pain. In my case, impossible.

I'm hoping USB 4 goes more mainstream as it has thunderbolt speeds without the intel proprietary bullshit.

I am never going to buy a used GPU now that crypto is mainstream. All those used cards are out of warranty and probably worn out. There's no way to know how many hours or what heat cycles they've been through.

@@markm0000 I just talk to the sellers.

@@DunoCZ A miner card will actually be better treated than a gaming card, since mining workloads put a constant load on the card. Gaming workloads are inconsistent and all over the place. Miners are also incentivized to properly cool the card's core and memory (i.e., where do you think those custom copper heat plates for Ampere/30 series cards' memory ICs came from? They were from miners).

I'm picky, haven't bothered with secondhand stuff after mining became a thing. Had a friend get baited into buying a used card that died in like months.

@@DunoCZ miners often use special mining VBIOS for more efficiency simply running the card into its powerlimit on the regular gaming focused Vbios is inefficient

Linux Mint is a great choice, hopefully you enjoy it. :) I would suggest Arch Linux if you’re trying any Arch based distribution purely because a manual Arch installation has you make all the choices on what you want your system will look like and what it’s use case is. Arch Linux is a little bit more advanced/hands on than an already setup distribution but it’s very rewarding once it is setup/configured.

I recently chose OpenSUSE Tumbleweed as my first daily driver distro, and my experience has been very positive, especially as the kind of user that enjoys having options and understanding what's going on. Program installation with YaST is quite easy and comfortable & alternative installation methods are available too. You can also configure almost everything by GUI if you want to, which helps to soften the learning curve. Btrfs as default file system manager makes rolling back configuration problems really easy too through auto-generated snapshots.

Managed to install Mint, i like the aesthetic and the feel of it, very responsive and classy. Tho i need to use QtScrcpy and i'm having a problem about libQt5X11Extras.so.5 Not found. No idea how to solve it, been trying stuff without success.

@@Splarkszter try installing it with apt-get without "so.5"

Check out Zorin 16, super polished Ubunfu-based OS

Also fucks sake 80 bucks? Irish second hand market best i found that for a few months ago while looking to upgrade my bros pc was 350

@@anon-means-anon I'm prob gonna go to another ryzen 5, but money tight, especially after Christmas

I should run it in a single loop water cooling system with the 3970x, the water might get hot enough to make ramen.

LITERALLY BEEN DOING THAT LMFAO

40 series power consumption:

@@garfreld 40 series are still new and mostly untested graphic cards. RTX 3060 is a beast for example though. And never goes hotter than +60 Celsius. For me AMD is great when it comes for CPU'S only.

And it's 2015

I've got a 5700xt and a 6700xt. Only issues ive had with my rigs were not relating to gpu. I also far, far prefer adrenaline/radeon, over gefore/nvidia control panel. It has great ingame toggling, gameplay and clip recording, radeon chill is quite good, easy fps caps etc etc. I was a little on the fence about the whole 'amd driver issue' thing when I got my 5700xt, but I've been laughing ever since, not a single problem with either of my amd cards, and I really prefer the software. For what you spend, you won't really notice if your on an amd or nvidia card while enjoying a game, but the software control panel, radeon is handy, nvidia not so much. I can't speak for other uses of graphics cards but thats been my personal experience gaming man, hope that helps

May want to throw whatever PSU you had into the garbage... That's the only thing I can think of that would damage one that fast is a bad power source. Even with a lot of brownouts and power flickering, I haven't even been able to destroy an AMD GPU yet (my first one I sort of did, I cracked the BGA solder from thermal contraction fatigue cycles because I was running it at -60c every day in my daily machine, and solder really isn't made for that extreme cold as a daily machine...), yeah that card actually still works, I was going to show how to reflow it but it ran fine a year later when I was going to make a video guide on the repair. Didn't even artifact or slow its overclock all the way up to 130c (unplugged the fan and ran Furmark with like a 30% overclock for 15 minutes, the thing could have boiled water on its heatsink but it still wasn't crashing!), its ready for LN2 runs with insulation on it whenever I decide to finish it off, but I just haven't been able to break one (and I've got another with voltage bypass control on its circuit, however I broke the Firestrike world record without it for it in the crossfire category). I like to run 4x Xfire, setups, so I've got a decent amount of AMD GPUs, lol! And I like to break the records for fun, so they are pretty durable.

Hardware quality control-wise AMD's GPU-branch seems to drop the ball rather often unfortunately.

@@el-naturale Nvidia control panel has better options than AMD settings, tbh.

@@VexJinkswhich ones? And also can you hotkey and change options and settings midgame? I've also haven't found the nvidia overlay for system performance monitoring. For me its like adrenaline has everything you need built in, but nvidia requires 3rd party apps and has a less intuitive interface, he just gets nvidia because its popularity, but me faster 😎

I think most of them have been fixed. Had to move back to Windows (outside of a VM) for a few things and now I'm not having issues with my GPU (6600XT) -- originally the GPU would cause an issue with Windows (crash on sleeping or screen being turned off, seemingly due to wonky AMD settings) granted, I swapped my motherboard recently -- so that could have been part of the issue. IDK what mobo you have but I had an MSI motherboard and I switched to an Asus board (which is much better imo)

The only issue that still persists to this day is the fullscreen functionality in like... every Radeon card. I haven't had a single grpahics driver issue except the unfathomably common fullscreen crashes. Games literally crash or atleast freeze for 10-15 seconds when I Alt + Tab or use the Windows Key and change to another application. 6600 gigabyye

Ming explaining why one should avoid the 590? I think it was quite a good die shrink.

@@kingeling I tried several 590s from different vendors, and they all had severe overheating problems. Some were only good for a few minutes, none lasted more than half an hour before throttling down.

The 580 is often at 100€ or less on aliexpress. You might need a deshroud because sometimes fans are loud resulting in great performance and low noise with quality fans

@@padnomnidprenon9672 in what reality is Ali express reliable?

What desktop environment/window manager are you using? Sway and other wlroots based window managers does not work with Nvidia for example

@@chasarr ok. That is possible. I was mostly unsung Gnome. I haven't used so many different window managers.

@@JojOatXGME There are a couple of graphics APIs in the Linux kernel which AMD, Intel and others use, but Nvidia forces everyone to use their proprietary EGLStrems API instead. The developers behind Sway and wlroots were so frustrated with this that they didn't bother supporting it. Sway even had a --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia flag (they recently changed it) to add to it. There is an interesting article/rant from drew DeVault's blog called "Nvidia sucks and I'm sick of it" which goes into more detail. Cant link it here though, since links are disabled in the comments

Same here. AMD is free until you want to actually get shit done.

Stupid for programmers to rely on something proprietary like cuda

@@tanaymanerikar6503 It isn't free in any sense of the word though.

"properly optimised" ... yeah ? you think nvidia flooding the market with proprietary tech and getting filthy rich with dominant position, leading to all software makers being required to support nvidia tech first, is a good thing ? "properly optimised" .... you have no idea what either of these 2 words mean

@@YounesLayachi Ok buddy. Never mind the fact that people have put more time into making BLAS libraries that squeeze every drop of performance possible out of nvidia, and similarly and even more so with anything NN based. It's an objective and evidenced fact. But I'm sure your words have some merit in their somewhere even though what you said addressed absolutely jack shit about what is or isn't optimized. I'm sorry dude. My words are objectively true while yours are non-sequitur. Learn some logic before you claim others don't know what their own words mean.

The native compatibility that Linux has is absurd, Windows gave me a lot of headaches

@@elarmino6590 I resorted to the Nimez drivers on Windows, and while I absolutely loved them as they resolved majority of my freesync issues, I was still getting some severe display blackouts

Windows.

There's an up to date list on some official website. Google should find it. Last I checked, most problems were only for Nvidia users.

Xorg is based on the old software rendering approach where the bulk of the rendering is done on the CPU. Wayland uses OpenGL and Vulkan to do the rendering on the GPU. Just like for video games, it's ground breaking levels of performance increase.

I got a 6700xt. i love amds 6000 cards :D

Yeah, it is a rebranded rx 570, that's intended for the chinese market. Not a huge difference, I'd be more worried if the card's been mined on or not.

I disagree with that. Btw, Taiwan is undeniably a province of China 🇨🇳