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Also Linux generally had better 1% lows, lower RAM usage, and lower CPU usage. A big part of this is that AMD no longer updates the Windows drivers for the RX 580.
Idk how trustworthy this youtube channel is, but crazy to think the RX 580 released in 2017 and the 8GB version was ~$230 lol
absolute workhorse of a card, still have one on a very old Dell with CachyOS on it.
CachyOS is also a fantastic distro. I use the CachyOS kernel on my NixOS laptop. And the recent CachyOS Protons on steam are great. Also have some great Arch repos. It's just a great distro that tries to improve just about everything and does it well.
Are the cachy protons worth running instead of GE? Or is it on a case by case basis?
Lately I've been playing the Last Caretaker on steam and for the first time I found myself shopping around for Protein's because Proton Experimental couldn't run the game. proton-cachyos was the winner out of all that I tried. Some wouldn't play the menu videos, some didn't play the intro video. The CachyOS proton ran everything perfectly.
I mean I haven't noticed any real differences and the performance on both have been great. If you're using CachyOS they're in there by default so no need to install something like ProtonUP-QT to easily get the GE protons if you don't want to.
If I recall the point of the cachy protons is so you don't need to install GE on cachy. So if you already have GE then it's pointless. And if you already have cachy then installing GE is pointless.
I paid 600 cdn for a 1080ti sc2 which had 11gb.. can still use it for games today if I wanted too.
these days, the high end cards would be $4000, have a high chance to burn my entire house down and are plagued with issues and glitches on windows.
It's too bad the 10-series Linux drivers aren't updated anymore. I put Bazzite on my friend's computer, but it doesn't support the Gaming Mode and has to boot into regular desktop mode instead, then Steam starts in Big Picture mode. Not a huge difference but not quite as slick, maybe uses slightly more resources too.
Still rocking a 1080ti FTW3 that I bought used.
For a card released in 2017 for only $230, it's still very impressing how well it still cooks
Yeah. Had the 480 8GB and in December 2016 it was running 250. The 580 was basically the same GPU with some minor tweaks and changes plus faster clock speeds.
My stepson's system was using it with ChimeraOS (similar to SteamOS) until there was some driver issues then upgraded it to a RX 7600. If they didn't have the issue with the drivers it would probably still be chugging along.
but crazy to think the RX 580 released in 2017 and the 8GB version was ~$230 lol
Probably worth remembering that with inflation that's ~$320 now, so about the level of a 9060 XT, which is also a pretty capable card.