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The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

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wewewedxfgdf · 1791070970 · focus · HN ↗
If only AMD did this.
1. Waterluvian · 1791071118 · focus · HN ↗
  Is there financial incentive for them to bother?
  1. wewewedxfgdf · 1791071305 · focus · HN ↗
    Perhaps not but one of the great things about Nvidia is their latest drivers often support very old cards.
    benoau · 1791076580 · focus · HN ↗
    They're in the process of ending support for everything below the RTX 2000 series -
    <a href="https://windowsforum.com/news/nvidia-ends-feature-support-for-maxwell-pascal-and-volta-gpus-with-590-driver.395102/" rel="nofollow">https://windowsforum.com/news/nvidia-ends-feature-support-fo...
    kingstnap · 1791125435 · focus · HN ↗
    I mean the GTX 1080 is over a decade old.
    Compare it to some other products from that time:
    - AMD FX Piledriver CPUs
    - Skylake i7-6700K
    - iPhone 6s
    - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
    - Oculus Rift CV1
    - Android 6 Marshmallow
    ahartmetz · 1791139937 · focus · HN ↗
    The GTX 1080 (Ti) still works for the vast majority of games in 1080p. The only thing that would really make it obsolete is driver issues.
    jasomill · 1791163014 · focus · HN ↗
    As does Skylake.
    Also, compared to replacing a CPU, which likely entails replacing motherboard and RAM, upgrading to something like a used or NOS 3070 is easy and inexpensive.

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