I understand that AMD drivers are open source and less of a hassle to work compared to Nvidia. But what else? What model should I look for? I don’t care for raytracing or other dumb gimmicks. Just want to run my map games and cowboy games without lag and crashes. Upscaling compatible is preferred in case I want to play newer slop without buying a new card.
If you get an all AMD rig you can accces AMD Smart technologies that can do some synergies.
Big one being Smart Access Memory which allows the processor direct access to GPU memory.
Frame Generation -
640fps
I'm not too familair with NVIDA version of it but there are some games where the driver will automatically turn frame gen on and it works well...except it basically tells the card to go nuclear. Like I have a bougie 7900XTX and Hades 2 was giving temps of 105C on the gpu memeory
So I had to go into Adrenaline and tell the card to AMD Chill and limit frames to 120.
On the other hand Super Resolution has gotten really good. You can take a 1040 / 1440 res and do 4k res fairly easy now with minimal processing.
NVIDIA does ray tracing. AI, and cuda things better. AMD still capable of these things.
AMD has been on a tech spree lately and it's like getting free upgrades to the card.
Modern games 8GB won't do you. I recommend 16GB to give room for modern features and things that a normal desktop user would have in addition to the game reguardless what team you end up going for.
If all you want to do is game and have a Linux desktop, the Steam Deck OLED had a linux desktop with a dock accessory to display that on a tv or monitor. Cheaper than a full big box machine.
I am so very much not a gamer. I have one desktop that doesn’t have a GPU, and my workstation is running on an nvidia 730m that I pulled from a shitty Dell about 15 years ago I guess. Two gigs!
The workstation is packed to the gills with 192gb of ram tho. Whatever that’s worth.
with that much memory, TELL me you have tried to utilize as much as you can just to see what you can do. You have, right? 2,3 photoshops open at once? 100 chrome tabs? What is your max? whats your numbers? I've never gone above 60% utilization of my 64GB ram.
I’ve had well over 100 FF tabs running. Multiple plex encoders/streams running at once with the FF tabs, two VMs, music streaming, everything. Bottleneck is always the CPUs/motherboard. I’ve always run Linux and never been a g*mer so graphics has never been an issue. ram utilization never got about 25-30% before it would shit the bed. It’s a z620 workstation with dual Xeon e5-2600v2’s. Ancient at this point. I have all eight ram slots populated w 24gb sticks of ddr3 ecc ram. Six in the main motherboard and two on the 2nd CPU’s daughter board. I got them for like 8 bucks a stick off eBay. I’ll never use it all, and I’ll never use it as it was intended for- mine was originally outfitted with dual quadro 4000’s in SLI.
It’s huge. It’s heavy. It’s loud. It’s hot. During the wintertime I just pop the side door off the case and heat my bedroom w it. It’s old and outdated but it still works when I turn it on so I’m gonna use it til it dies.
Thank you for this description, i seriously love your computer.