Feral Interactive Appears To Be Stepping Up Its AMD Linux Game

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Feral Interactive Appears To Be Stepping Up Its AMD Linux Game

Feral Interactive Games is assembling some new systems for their Linux porting business and there's a lot of AMD hardware present...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Linux-Feral-Interactive

[Raven3x7]

There' a minor typo as the R9 card is a 390 and the GPU in the back is a Sapphire so that's also AMD. Judging from the size of the packaging it looks like a lower end model.

[johnc]

Are they looking for help?

[Kano]

Basically the selection is a bit weird. If you need to test drivers then maybe you use pre-fermi (if OpenGL 3.3 is enough) for series 340. Fermi is not supported by DX12 on Win, no idea if you would need to test it. Fermi/Kepler/Maxwell 1 can use 340+, Maxwell 2 needs 343+. So, why would you need a GTX 970 and 980 Ti... For AMD testing a pre RadeonSI card and a current one would be enough. Maybe an APU system as minimum. The r600 based cards seem to use different fglrx optimizations or just get none.

[ObiWan]

Higher Res Image (with : orig)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNLGx4lUsAEUaGC.jpg:orig

But still not enough to identify the Sapphire card.

[humbug]

There's not much point using AMD CPUs is there.

I guess what they need to do is ensure AMD GPUs are well represented throughout the development process.

[Xaero_Vincent]

On Windows (not Linux), AMD GPUs are real power houses and easily compete with Nvidia. Their CPUs, however, are crap I'm sad to say. Less energy efficent and slower. Their FX-9590 can be beaten with a mid-range Haswell i5 like the 4670K. Even AMD doesn't use their FX processors when testing their Catalyst drivers with games on Windows because they know crappy CPUs will just become an I/O bottleneck for their top GPUs. IIRC, their Windows driver page shows game benchmark graphs tested with a high-end Core i7 5960K system.

The good news is if AMD stays afloat (I hope) and doesn't get acquired, they have a massive new CPU architecture called Zen planned for 2016. This should make things on the AMD side exciting again.

[sabun]

I believe it's a Sapphire AMD R9 270X. I could be wrong. Here's a reference:

http://www.vuugo.com/image/cache/data/products/vuugo-sapphire-11217-01-25G-5-600x600.jpg

[_ONH_]

I believe it's a Sapphire AMD R9 270X. I could be wrong. Here's a reference:
http://www.vuugo.com/image/cache/dat...-5-600x600.jpg

I would speculate it is R9 285 dual X.
Since it is GCN v3 and the 270/280 dual X are GCN v1 http://geizhals.de/sapphire-radeon-r...loc=at&hloc=de

Well de Format des not match. The only assumtion that holds is Saphire dual-X r7 250/260/265 up to max 270, the higher number have different size package.

[M@yeulC]

I hope that they will at least try out gallium nine