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  • Such legendary behaviour
    by _sgal
  • I'm so happy I didn't throw away my old laptops...
    by k7peak
  • If only AMD did this.
    by wewewedxfgdf
  • Some other benefits of older GPUs:

    Use as a dedicated GPU for encoding and decoding video. Post processing like frame interpolation or superresolution. Use for GPGPU workloads. Run additional monitors independently. Use for GPU passthrough to virtual machines. Use as a backup GPU for troubleshooting. Use for test code without breaking the main GPU

    by bugake
  • I got a r9 285 in 2020 something while the crypto frenzy was still eating up all the gpus. It was 6 years old, got it for like 60 bucks if I remember correctly, best purchase ever, I got to play gta V at 60fps again.

    Try to remember back to 2015 the graphics were not that bad. 4k performance was poor but for 1080p 60fps on pretty much anything.

    by throwawayffffas
  • Direct link to the talk, with timestamp: https://youtu.be/j5W5ErEMnvM?t=21385
    by gary_0
  • I have AI fatigue, but the potentially for fixing bugs in old hardware is very exciting to me.

    Perhaps we will even be able to reverse firmware blobs into open source alternatives?

    by azkalam
  • I just bought a used Ayaneo 2 handheld, it has an old(er) mobile RDNA 2 GPU and I was blown away by how well this thing performed under Linux. Almost everything (that's not a recent AAA game) runs beautiful and a lot faster/smoother than it does under Windows. The experience has been so good that I'm considering switching my main pc (with a 9070XT) to Linux as well.

    No doubt Timur contributed heavily to this given Valves Steamdeck (which uses a very similar but slower GPU).

    Given the current hardware prices it's pretty awesome to see someone squeezing maximum performance out of old hardware!

    by LaurensBER

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