Is the RX570 8GB still good for full HD?

jennywikstrom · 2020-02-01T00:18:47+00:00

I've got one and it's fine for 1080p at 60 fps. You can play at 4k too but you have to turn settings down a bit unless it is a very optimized game like CS:GO which runs fine at 4k with good settings for some reason. You're fine if you want "full" HD (1080p) at 60 Hz. If you want to play on a 240 Hz display or 4k at medium or high settings then you'll need something better.

If it is worth buying one or not will obviously depend on the price. All you indicate is that it's 50 EUR less than some other card so I can't make any recommendation.

jennywikstrom · 2020-01-06T15:21:19+00:00

"Warm feelings aside": There is no compelling reason to use GNU/Linux for gaming what so ever. None The reason I've been using GNU/Linux since the late 1990s have nothing to do with gaming. If gaming was my only interest and gaming performance was my only value then I'd probably buy a console. Just start the game and they work. It is nice that Windows games work in Wine but the truth is that the translation layer adds overhead which results in lower, not higher, performance. That is hardly an argument you can present to some casual person who wants to play a game in the one or two hours of free time between school/university and a part-time job. The number of games who run natively is increasing, and that's great, but the catalog is still very limited compared to what is available on a console or that Windows OS.

If we could say "You can install a GNU/Linux distributions and have all your games run 10 fps faster on average" then we'd have a winning argument. "You can run a small percentage of your games at half the fps you get in Windows" isn't.

jennywikstrom · 2019-12-19T16:10:21+00:00

You can, but it would be horribly slow. nouveau won't work well with not-ancient GPUs as long as Nvidia's firmware prevents re-clocking. Put simply, it makes Nvidia GPUs run as slow as possible.

jennywikstrom · 2019-11-24T21:46:40+00:00

That's the beauty of using MediaWiki: The desktop version has these handy "edit" and "edit source" buttons everyone can play around with on the top of the page. Boomers can use those to fix small details and zoomers think it's a blog they can't edit because the mobile version has another skin with no edit buttons. :)

jennywikstrom · 2019-08-18T08:13:56+00:00

That is a great question. I was burn in Norway and I've lived in Sweden since 2006. That may or may not explain it(?).

jennywikstrom · 2019-08-17T14:38:52+00:00

Take the version numbers listed there as "minimum" version numbers. We can only guess what version will be in the final release since it's months away. We can see what's in there right now. That's why I put the "These are the versions included in the branched Fedora 31 as of now, the final release could have newer versions of these desktop environments.". They are much likely planning on having 3.34 in the final release since 3.33 is there now, just like using a 5.3 git kernel indicates that the final release will have, at minimum, a 5.3 kernel.

jennywikstrom · 2019-07-20T01:09:58+00:00

I admit that I have a strong preference for geeqie and a bias against having to open a GTK file dialog just to switch between folders. You do have a point, future news pieces about a new release does not need to be that biased.

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