| haxxiy said: To be frank, AMD's graphics division, ever since the beginning of the decade, reminds me of Ferrari in F1. Both are sort of fast, but simply can't keep up with development. Their newer stuff ends up being misguided sidesteps or downgrades, and then they take the "L" home and are back to zero, rinse and repeat the next year. What I'm expecting, while sincerely hoping to be wrong, is some 7 nm designs who might sort of match Turing's power consumption and performance, which are solidly beaten in turn by Nvidia's next generation GPUs just a few months later. AMD counters with their rebranded and overclocked, more power hungry chips, AMD fans claim it's a victory since "no casual gamer cares about power consumption anyway" and cue Nvidia walking away with 95% of dGPU marketshare again. |
Don't buy a Ryzen notebook then... Some OEM's are still only pushing out drivers made 12 months ago and won't support anything newer.
I had to get "creative" and work around that bullshit.
On the Desktop... I feel AMD's drivers are fairly solid... The UI on the other hand is fantastic. - Every-time I hop over to the nVidia rig and open up the drivers I feel like I am stuck in 1995, they are archaic.
| haxxiy said: Yeah, four years, I've edited it, sorry. I'll have to get a new one I guess, though nothing exceptional, just a stop-gap solution. There's some RX 570s for $149 at Newegg, so perhaps that would be a good choice? Since it was a GTX 970 who broke, I'd be OK with a sidestep for $149. |
RX 470 is $110. - Same GPU, just lower clocks. Nothing overclocking can't fix.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1DW-0003-000D5&Description=RX%20470&cm_re=RX_470-_-1DW-0003-000D5-_-Product
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