It (along with AMD’s habit of not having the full x16 capability, general gpu prices) does not inspire confidence that I’m ever upgrading away from my 1050Ti any time soon.
I may instead have more luck with an APU in a minipc (when the spec and price eventually makes sense).
That’s the thing, that’s way above my price range.
I’m still happy* with my other parts that I got on sale in 2019 (Ryzen 2700, 16GiB RAM). Also crazy to me that an entry-level GPU had 4GiB VRAM in 2016 and it still hasn’t moved much beyond that. I guess the market never fully recovered from crypto. Or maybe I just really threaded the needle when it comes to value.
* I don’t really play high-end/newer games though, so even with the GPU some of the issue is just that I worry that the fans are eventually going to die. So it’s that and the nice-to-have of something that could maybe fit in a backpack.
It’ll probably be a while. And it might even be some other tech like ARM, or maybe some new luggable PC even if that happens to just be some second-hand portable with no battery.
I’ve seen reports that the B580 may have lower performance with non-newest CPUs (possibly related to how ReBar being off can lower performance). Some of the options I see for that are also PCIe x8 as well.
I’m also on Linux, and from what I’ve heard it’s a bit behind there compared to the already expected beta-test. I mean, unless things (on either platform) have improved in the last 5 months.
If you could actually get this for under €200 where I live, it would be a somewhat decent offering.
Although I would of course want to see independent benchmarks first.
It (along with AMD’s habit of not having the full x16 capability, general gpu prices) does not inspire confidence that I’m ever upgrading away from my 1050Ti any time soon.
I may instead have more luck with an APU in a minipc (when the spec and price eventually makes sense).
Top end APUs (Strix Halo) should be way better than the 1050 Ti, especially if you get a desktop build.
That’s the thing, that’s way above my price range.
I’m still happy* with my other parts that I got on sale in 2019 (Ryzen 2700, 16GiB RAM). Also crazy to me that an entry-level GPU had 4GiB VRAM in 2016 and it still hasn’t moved much beyond that. I guess the market never fully recovered from crypto. Or maybe I just really threaded the needle when it comes to value.
* I don’t really play high-end/newer games though, so even with the GPU some of the issue is just that I worry that the fans are eventually going to die. So it’s that and the nice-to-have of something that could maybe fit in a backpack.
It’ll probably be a while. And it might even be some other tech like ARM, or maybe some new luggable PC even if that happens to just be some second-hand portable with no battery.
The Intel B570 / B580 could be another option if all you need a dGPU and you’re fine with rest of your components.
I’ve seen reports that the B580 may have lower performance with non-newest CPUs (possibly related to how ReBar being off can lower performance). Some of the options I see for that are also PCIe x8 as well.
I’m also on Linux, and from what I’ve heard it’s a bit behind there compared to the already expected beta-test. I mean, unless things (on either platform) have improved in the last 5 months.