On 2020-12-26 at 19:49, Linux-Fan wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> On 2020-12-26 at 18:50, Linux-Fan wrote:
>>> Curious, what machine does not do UEFI yet but still benefits >>> from large GPUs such as the RX 5700? >> >> One I built from parts back when the 6870 was still in the sweet >> spot of price vs. performance, with then-outsize specs in other >> regards, including what was at the time the top-end non-server CPU >> in the world. It's fallen well behind that standard, but is still >> far from the bottleneck in my system. >> >> The motivation for the GPU upgrade is that the card I have seems to >> be literally the last model made that doesn't support the required >> baseline for a game I've seen recommended. Based on the most >> recent Linux-including reviews as of the time I made the choice, >> the 5700 seems to be the current best option in terms of price vs. >> (performance / future-proofing). > > OK, that makes sense. I just wanted to ask because I was once in a > similar situation. I had upgraded my venerable HP Z400 (Xeon W3550 -- > not the fastet at the time) by adding a Radeon RX 570 to replace the > previous Nvidia GTX 570 card and had... zero performance improvement > in gaming because without me noticing this in other application > contexts/earlier, the CPU had become the bottleneck :( Reasonable. In my case, I have a Core i7 990x Extreme, which cost me $1050 brand-new; it may turn out to be the bottleneck with the new GPU, but the resulting performance should still be better than what I've got, and at least the game should actually be willing to *launch*. Thanks for the input, regardless of whether it winds up helping. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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