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Valve's new low-VRAM Linux fix nearly triples FPS in select games on AMD's RX 6500 XT (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] 41 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Can confirm.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    did you test it youself? of course the 4 gn 6500xt was an extreme example (as its basically a laptop gpu with much higher clocks), but im curious on how its affecting the 8gb gpus.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    I'm using a 6650XT and have seen sizeable boosts in scenarios where previously it would lag like crazy. I'll be honest I didn't expect to see much of a change at all. But given this is just one step above the 6500 id suggest anyone on a 8gb give it a shot when it's available for your distro. I'm wondering what it will be like with something like Doom Eternal which normally wants 10 or more gig for best performance.

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  • [+] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    There's dozens of us!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I always go for best value low wattage cards, I'm weird like that. My previous one was RX 460 with 2GB. I only upgraded because RDR2 was lagging hard on low settings and I was not having that. Served well for 5 years and I might put it into a media server.

    At this rate I think the 6600XT might keep me afloat until 2030 if it survives. FSR is really doing work.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    the reason i asked was because amds 8gb cards are the ones on that border where there are realistic scenarios where you could run out of vram in some edge cases (obviously not to the same extent as yhe 6500xt). and the 6700/6700xt will rarely hit that problem with their 10/12 gb allotments. good to know now though as my laptop uses a 7700S so id get those fixes on the edge case.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What's the patch to? I have a 6650XT as well but don't know what to update e.g., Proton, kernel etc?

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    • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    After the patch surfaced earlier this month, YouTuber NJ Tech tested it on a Radeon RX 6500 XT running CatchyOS, where the feature can be enabled via the "Install GPU Boosters" option.

    I assume its safe to say that's a typo for CachyOS?

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It's that Linux distro you just can't get out of your head.

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    • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I need to test this on my BC-250 I use for Moonlight streaming

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