In the last 6 years I've used a 7870, 290, and 580 as my desktops GPU. All have been stellar cards that have only gotten better over time. Back when I got that

In the last 6 years I've used a 7870, 290, and 580 as my desktops GPU. All have been stellar cards that have only gotten better over time. Back when I got that 7870 circa 2012 I was taking a major risk - at the time the 6870 was the premiere foss card and radeonSI was brand new with growing pains. The 290 was another risk being the first major architecture update to GCN. But I was validated in both purchases with usable cards at first that within a few months became excellent. I've played a lot of the major Linux AAA releases on these cards shortly after release - Borderlands 2, Civ 5, Metro Last Light / Redux, Tomb Raider, etc. There used to be quite a few bugs at release and glitches. Nowadays everything is pristine. And I get about twice the framerate in BL2 today than I did four years ago on that 290. I'm almost certainly going to buy a Navi card next unless we have another crypto bomb ruin the market again.