Pemalite said:
JEMC said:
My comment was more in line of "Hey, he got something right for once!", not to praise him or anything. Also, the CPU in the Steam Machine will be more than fine as it will be the GPU that will be the bottleneck here. An 8-core one would have been a waste of resources and add unnecessary costs. |
I mean, yeah. The GPU is garbage. Ideally I would have liked to have seen a Radeon RX 9060 8GB... Just for FSR4 and the massively improved RT performance.
Or even a cutdown RX 9060 8GB would have been better than the Radeon RX 6600/7400 level GPU.
We can't ignore the long term driver support issue either, AMD has already hinted it wants to depreciate older RDNA architectures rapidly... Making the RDNA3 GPU a bad choice.
But games that aren't super GPU bound like Cities Skylines, Civilization. I.E. RTS/TBS games, the extra CPU headroom would have been good... Maybe I am a CPU core snob, I haven't had anything less than 8-cores for 15 years now... Even AMD's handheld chips like the Z2 Extreme tend to have 8 cores now. |
Not really a big problem since SteamOS is Linux and will use the RADV drivers that have better community support.
And who knows, if Valve got that FSR4 code during AMD's mistake, they may make their own driver with FSR4 enabled on this RDNA3 card.
Please excuse my bad English.
Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070
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