Recent content by DanglingPointer

Fun reading all these complaints about AMD drivers! hahaha Well unfortunately ~90% of the sheep are on Windows. Perhaps some will see the light and move over to Linux. There's a reason 100% of all Super Comps and mainframes run on Linux! Treat your hardware at home like a super-comp and...

Meh... Switch to linux and run latest stable Mesa driver and you're fine! Mesa is built by everyone including AMD of course but not exclusively. In fact much of the code is updated by Valve and other people and orgs with a stake to having a working driver! It isn't just AMD, same thing with...

Try pushing the limits on Linux this way... Custom build the latest linux stable kernel optimised for your zen 3 with max optimisation (O3) and LTO (using LLVM) Custom build the latest stable Mesa driver optimised for your zen 3 with max optimisation (O3) and "FULL" LTO using GCC-13.2. Build...

Wow can't believe this thread is still going after so many years! I first posted here years ago with a R9-290X on Linux running OpenGL. I've got a PowerColor Liquid Devil Ultimate now however it identifies itself as a Red Devil Ultimate. It is Overclocked to max 2.8GHz with 381w power limit...

You can enable AVX-512 on Alder lake in Linux. But the catch is you will need to disable the E-cores... Here are the benchmarks and how to do it... https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=alder-lake-avx512&num=1 There is a story within a story here... Intel always had AVX-512...

Hi @RandomJerk, I've only ever had linux for the last decade in all my PCs, Workstations, servers, and IoT SoCs. I haven't got a 5950x but I do have a 5800x watercooled all core overclock in my main workstation server; it is coupled with a Powercolor Liquid Devil Ultimate 6900xt. For CPU...

For those that don't care about Window$ and have move to the Light Side of the OS Force... That's 146 Tests! All results here... Review here...

For those that don't care about Window$ and have move to the Light Side of the OS Force... That's 146 Tests! All results here... Review here...

actual game. It comes with a built-in benchmark to test your settings.

It's not a green team exclusive. It's on all the consoles which are almost all AMD hardware. My benchmark screenshots have all been on a AMD 6900XT There's a 5700XT in these benchmarks running on linux. Using a Feral Vulkan translation layer on top of DX12... You can see the 5700XT on 1080p...

Yeah I'm one of those that skip multiple gens historically if I look at all the GPUs I've had. Been upgrading every 4-5 years since 3dfx Voodoo graphics era. But after I watercooled a R9-290X when it was first released, I couldn't justify upgrading since all games worked with my then 1080...

Easily done mate! Grab a GTX780 and a R9-290X; then test all 50 games from OP's article. If that doesn't show the longevity of AMD GPUs I don't know what will!? As another poster said, they even had a 7970 from a decade ago running circles against a more contemporary competition! You can...

AMD is like fine red wine, gets better with age! Nvidia is like fine beer, better when freshly brewed but starts to go off and stale with age! If there ever was an example of this, just look at the venerable GCN architecture! The R9-290X to this day runs similar performance to a 580 and will...

You can't see a whine, it is something heard! Almost all fans have a whine when you play and record a frequency range as the rpm goes up. You can check and listen to the whines at specific rpm ranges in many youtube reviews. You can also check Igors lab. It isn't that bad with Arctic's, it...

Arctic's PWM P12's have 10years warranty with similar performance and noise and 1/5th the price!!!!!!!!!!!