A Valve developer further improves old AMD GPUs, with the HD 7870 XT finally working on Linux

Posted by somerandomxander@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 17 comments

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Ashratt@reddit

Hey, i had that card!

Was super power hungry because of the reject chip but FPS/€ ratio was great :D

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Il_Valentino@reddit

every day linux slightly improves, you can't escape the snail

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I was thinking about that, how I just keep seeing examples of Linux making more inroads, after just about dang near taking over everything other than the desktop. Okay, so things like Android, they're more like a walled garden that's built on top of Linux, but it's still running Linux.

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Malsententia@reddit

largely unrelated, but can manufacturers settle on more sane identifiers. I read this and I'm like, but wait, I have a 7900 xtx...

"oh wait, silly me, HD is a previous decade, non-HD is the modern decade"
yep, that totally makes sense /s

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DheeradjS@reddit

Sane identifiers, and not rename it mid-sale...

I believe it was AMD that renamed a GPU model 2 times back in 2013.

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TimurHu@reddit

All manufacturers do this. They sell slightly different variants of the same chip under different marketing names.

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DheeradjS@reddit

Sure, but that was the exact same SKU they just renamed mid-cycle.

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Vortelf@reddit

You must be young. My third GPU was HD 7950 which I got from an old Ubisoft studio workstation. It is still working.

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Malsententia@reddit

Young? My first cpu was a Pentium 1, in used Compaq Presario. I'm just commenting on naming schemes.

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regeya@reddit

If we're bragging about first CPUs of PCs, mine was an 8088.

I still think GPU naming conventions are confusing. Though not as confusing as monitor model names.

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Malsententia@reddit

Not claiming I can compete with that, lol, just saying relative to the person I was replying to. Additionally, some of us grew up poor, with combos of hand-me-downs, dumpster salvage, and underpriced Goodwill scores(on a lucky day).

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Straight-Opposite-54@reddit

Though not as confusing as monitor model names.

They inherent that trait from TVs. Seriously, go try to find the specs of a Hisense R6 or whatever. There are dozens of different models under the same name.

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