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.

  • Cosmonaut_Collin
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    12 years ago

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

    • Sev
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      32 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]
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      22 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.