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I want to use an AMD GPU but would like to have one that is comparable in energy requirements to Intel's GPU. I just don't want to have a GPU that uses 150 or 2
by cm3 10y ago
I want to use an AMD GPU but would like to have one that is comparable in energy requirements to Intel's GPU. I just don't want to have a GPU that uses 150 or 200 watts but the Intel drivers are regressing so much that AMD seems like a safer bet.
- Avshalom 10y agoThe APU chips all have GPUs that handily beat Intel's and still have TPD from CPU+GPU of 100w or less. My desktop is an A8 from 2013 and while no power house even while new it runs XCom and GRID just fine (though I am using the very up-to-date drivers from the oibaf ppa)
- AlgorithmicTime 10y agoYeah, but you need to use an AMD CPU. And their performance has not yet caught Intel. Hopefully the new Zen architecture will make them competitive again.
- cm3 10y agoI compile a lot of code and also encode videos where an Intel i3 will beat the APU. That's the dilemma I'm in, and it's a pity that the Zen APUs don't arrive until 2017. First it's the CPU only Zen chips, but maybe the new AMD GPUs will allow for low-power variants.
- cm3 10y agoHow is the smoothness of the AMD drivers? Any tearing as it reliably happens with all Intel GPUs and latest kernels and X drivers if you don't force vsync?