Would be Steam machines with Radeon graphics?

[Alberto]

I would make a Steam Machine my next computer if it featured Radeon graphics.

As the Ubuntu papercuts quality coordinator, and the person who sorts bugs in Ubuntu, I know how problematic is having a proprietary driver in your own computer like NVIDIA's. I value more the system just to work flawlessly out of the box, over having the perfect performance.

With NVIDIA drivers I am forced to stick with long term releases only, for precaution of breaking things, while supporting an unlawful company that contributes to the fragmentation of the game industry.

So I wanted to know which would be the likelihood of having a Radeon Steam Machine, for example, when Mantle is released. Thank you ;)

[PillsburyDoughBoy]

They haven't said anything about it yet but it's possible. But AMD isn't perfect either when compared to NVIDIA.

[wuddih]

depends on the vendor
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/machines/
look yourself.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then don't use any Linux or SteamOS, AMD has crappy support/Drivers for those OS.

Not sure 100% about SteamOS, I know they handle that. But I do know AMD GPUs had a very rough start when SteamOS released to public initially.

[23154615]

Originally posted by Asaras:

They haven't said anything about it yet but it's possible. But AMD isn't perfect either when compared to NVIDIA.

Haha nice joke ... nvidia is away from beginning perfect.



You are paying for G-SYNC, SLI , CUDA, while AMD offer same thing for free and open source.

nvidia hair lagging on all AMD cards while TressFX was open souce and works great on them both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcF36_qMd8M


About steamOS / Linux. no point to overpay , you can build ur own PC for Less with what ever you want.

[Kbyte]

Really? I changed my gpu from AMD to NVIDIA because of poor catalyst driver performances.

Both full free drivers (nuveau and radeon) are totally bad with new GPUS.

In the last 2 years every amd driver release was a pain with kde/kwin.

[23154615]

Originally posted by Kbyte:

Really? I changed my gpu from AMD to NVIDIA because of poor catalyst driver performances.

Both full free drivers (nuveau and radeon) are totally bad with new GPUS.

In the last 2 years every amd driver release was a pain with kde/kwin.

Avarage nvidia fanboy comment.

i just talked some day ago with some one that his GTX 970 died after 1 year of usage.

so .. ?

nvidia has super sucks hardware ? nope.

[initiaLiSeD]

You can pick up Windows 10 keys for £40 why waste time making games run on Linux/Steam OS (other than out of curiosity)?

Mantle released a couple of years back, BF4 & Thief support it and were released around the same time.

[averyvh]

Originally posted by Alberto Salvia Novella:

I value more the system just to work flawlessly out of the box, over having the perfect performance.

AMD cards still can't even run all the newest games on Linux. Many games just won't work at all because they require newer OpenGL extensions that AMD cards don't support. The games that do run are often at unplayable performance on lowest settings. My r7 260X running Shadow of Mordor on minimum settings even at 540p was only 10-20fps; Shadow Warrior on low settings couldn't keep fps over 20 either. I was even using the newest proprietary drivers, the open source ones are even worse (not by much anymore).
I love AMD and detest Nvidia's practices, but with AMD on Linux, you better be ok with a pretty huge hit to performance due to crap drivers.

[23154615]

Originally posted by averyvh:

Originally posted by Alberto Salvia Novella:

I value more the system just to work flawlessly out of the box, over having the perfect performance.

AMD cards still can't even run all the newest games on Linux. Many games just won't work at all because they require newer OpenGL extensions that AMD cards don't support. The games that do run are often at unplayable performance on lowest settings. My r7 260X running Shadow of Mordor on minimum settings even at 540p was only 10-20fps; Shadow Warrior on low settings couldn't keep fps over 20 either. I was even using the newest proprietary drivers, the open source ones are even worse (not by much anymore).
I love AMD and detest Nvidia's practices, but with AMD on Linux, you better be ok with a pretty huge hit to performance due to crap drivers.

Nvidia not much better good exaple Bioshock 200 fps on windows / 30~60 Fps on Ubuntu 15.10

same story with Grid Auto sport

on GTX 980.

Games not really optimized for OpenGl, last hope is Vulcan.
until then the only option is Windows.

[averyvh]

Originally posted by ·•£RöTÎCµš•·:

Nvidia not much better good exaple Bioshock 200 fps on windows / 30~60 Fps on Ubuntu 15.10

same story with Grid Auto sport

on GTX 980.

Games not really optimized for OpenGl, last hope is Vulcan.
until then the only option is Windows.

True, but my laptop running Linux (gt755m) could run games pretty smooth even if the 260x choked.