I am currently composing a new #PC for my father...
And I'm currently faced with the question "#AMD or #Intel" - It's not supposed to be a high-end system, but rather a well-performing computer that should also last for about a good decade. (He VERY rarely gets a new one) So I will use the latest of the latest.
As for #CPU selection, I find AMD simpler simply because there aren't as many models. (I'm also a bit of a AMD fanboy) What do you think?
Time for the #Linux and #OpenSource News video!
This week, we have more details about @system76 Cosmic desktop, with a lot of customization for their panels, we have #AMD going full FOSS for their firmware, and some interesting changes in the defaults for @kde Plasma 6!
Anyway, as I mentioned recently, I have a new workstation that finally allows me to test our code using all three backends (#CUDA, #ROCm/#HIP and #CPU w/ #OpeMP) thanks to having an #AMD#Ryzen processor with an integrated #GPU in addition to a discrete #NVIDIA GPU.
Of course the iGPU is massively underpowered compared to the high-end dGPU workhorse, but I would expect it to outperform the CPU on most workloads.
And this is where things get interesting.
I have been offered a choice between these two cards, and I'm not sure which one will perform better in linux at this point. If it was Windows I would just go with the Nvidia and call it a day, but the driver situation on Linux has me leaning towards AMD. Is the AMD the right choice?...
⭐ What graphics card and processor do you have? Is there any reason why?
as for me, I was assembling my last computer in 2021, i9 and GeForce 3080Ti. This year I bought a laptop Rog Strix with AMD. I see that Unity works faster on amd.
As of November 22nd 2023, my experience with #Wayland#KDEPlasma on #Nvidia GPU is still atrocious, while on #AMD is almost flawless ... Seriously thinking swapping my RTX 3060 in my secondary PC with RX 6600 despite expecting slightly worse game performance ... Screw Nvidia ...
Corporate #FLOSS at its worst: #NVIDIA controls the #Thrust library and its #CUDA, #OpenMP and #TBB backend. #AMD provides rocThrust, that is just Thrust with the CUDA part stripped and a new backend for #ROCm / #HIP. Nobody* is working on a backend for #SYCL #Intel provides its own #oneAPI alternative as #oneDPL, which is NOT a drop-in replacement.
If #capitalism is so responsible for innovation, why are #intel and #amd still working on the x86-based processor series? The wave of the future is in ARM and Open RISC-V. AMD and Intel would rather just keep money coming in the door than innovate. RISC-based architectures are more power-efficient and thereby greener processors. They're also faster now.
Something incredible is happening, I've noticed some substancial increase in framerates in pretty much every game. I managed to find some screenshots of benchmarks I ran earlier and the results are outstanding.
Here we have Cyberpunk 2077 and Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Both tested January 18th and March 30th
I'm back! Borked my laptop by upgrading #Ubuntu to the recent 24.04 beta. Looks like the upgrade process removed/disabled #AMD#GPU drivers, and for a while I was left with looking at a plain non-GUI shell, which required an actual real-life magnifying glass, because of my HiDPI display!
Now it's operational again with built-in drivers, but I still want to figure out how to bring the AMD 3-rd part drivers back and restore OpenCL support.
Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an #AppleNewton developer named Stephen A. Cronin.
He worked at #AMD and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.
Together they released a sequencer program for #NewtonOS called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.
Pulse 14 Gen3 users note! We have just released a new BIOS/EC update today. This brings quite a few important things to your beloved laptop, we would like to highlight in a 🧵.
I'm not actually hoping for AMD and Intel to overtake NVIDIA in the GPU market. I'd rather see their integrated GPUs get so good that we don't need dedicated GPUs anymore.
Is a 7900xt worth it today?
Hello 👋...
Nvidia 980 Ti 6GB, or AMD RX Vega 64 8GB?
I have been offered a choice between these two cards, and I'm not sure which one will perform better in linux at this point. If it was Windows I would just go with the Nvidia and call it a day, but the driver situation on Linux has me leaning towards AMD. Is the AMD the right choice?...