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Choosing a GPU (pawb.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking to upgrade from a dying RX 590, and I'm eyeing the RX 6950 XT, which I can get for slightly less than 800 USD, I'm wondering if that'd be a good choice.

It's mostly for gaming, but I kinda want to run ML stuff and blender on the side, so I hope ROCm works well enough for that, I want to avoid NVIDIA because of Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While I agree with the choice of a 6800 or 6700, please don't use userbenchmark. It's incredibly biased against AMD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSBj2LKkWg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Dang, didn't even realize. Do you know of any better alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Passmark's site has been my go-to for at-a-glance comparisons of GPU and CPU for a while. It just lays out specs and performance on a common benchmarking suite.

Looks like 6950XT has similar performance and favorable value compared to similarly-priced recent-gen cards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, I don't know of one. It may just be best to look at individual reviews.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You should look up some of the controversy with userbenchmark. The owner is a competitive shooter player so he favors single thread performance over basically everything. When he got called out by some big tech channels he had a tantrum and made pages on the site dedicated to trying to talk shit about them, linked right in the about page.

It's actually really funny.