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.
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.