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[Gamers Nexus] "Is AMD (Radeon) Actually Screwed?" ft. Steve of Hardware Unboxed (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] vikingtons 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A third player is absolutely welcome to the game but their share is for now still small on Windows.

The Arc Alchemist dGPU bringup has shown the world just how difficult graphics driver software is. They've made excellent progress lately in key areas (on both Windows and Linux) but there are are still many odd gaps to fill.

Battlemage mobile looks pretty exciting, mind you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hope Intel keeps invested in this because we really need more competition. If they can push for the upper midrange too then that'd be a huge improvement already.

[–] vikingtons 1 points 6 months ago

This may take time but Intel have extremely deep pockets, they understand the value of presence in this market, I'm sure they can and will stick to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A third player is absolutely welcome to the game

definitely agreed as more competition drives better products for lower prices to consumers✨

just wondering but do you happen to know if Intel's gpus are good for all Linux distros?

last I heard was that they're primarily supporting Ubuntu (I could be wrong about this)

[–] vikingtons 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Like AMD, they use a kernel module and their user space drivers are in Mesa. If anything, you may have a better OOTB experience with Intel graphics on distros that have more recent packages, like Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do keep in mind though that some extra packages are needed to use oneapi for things like blender or Stable Diffusion. Other than that arc works great for gaming and recording using OBS out of the box for me on Fedora.

[–] vikingtons 1 points 6 months ago

Good to know, though same could be said for ROCm + HIP for AMD. Gets a bit weird as you generally want that for OCL support too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

on distros that have more recent packages, like Fedora.

ah you're right!

😳I asked a stupid question as I should've checked the Tech Compendium (ArchLinux Wiki) before asking😅

thanks! +1

[–] vikingtons 1 points 6 months ago

There's no stupid questions here - there's absolutely nothing intuitive about computer ecosystems 😅