Also Linux generally had better 1% lows, lower RAM usage, and lower CPU usage. A big part of this is that AMD no longer updates the Windows drivers for the RX 580.
Idk how trustworthy this youtube channel is, but crazy to think the RX 580 released in 2017 and the 8GB version was ~$230 lol
absolute workhorse of a card, still have one on a very old Dell with CachyOS on it.
CachyOS is also a fantastic distro. I use the CachyOS kernel on my NixOS laptop. And the recent CachyOS Protons on steam are great. Also have some great Arch repos. It’s just a great distro that tries to improve just about everything and does it well.
I paid 600 cdn for a 1080ti sc2 which had 11gb… can still use it for games today if I wanted too.
these days, the high end cards would be $4000, have a high chance to burn my entire house down and are plagued with issues and glitches on windows.
It’s too bad the 10-series Linux drivers aren’t updated anymore. I put Bazzite on my friend’s computer, but it doesn’t support the Gaming Mode and has to boot into regular desktop mode instead, then Steam starts in Big Picture mode. Not a huge difference but not quite as slick, maybe uses slightly more resources too.
but crazy to think the RX 580 released in 2017 and the 8GB version was ~$230 lol
Probably worth remembering that with inflation that’s ~$320 now, so about the level of a 9060 XT, which is also a pretty capable card.
