No, AMDVLK is also a user space driver. You’re confusing it with AMDGPU, which is a kernel module.

I don’t think AMDVLK is even installed by default with Fedora. It can definitely be installed, but there’s not much reason to as it’s a really bad Vulkan driver.

The default driver used by Fedora is RADV. Steam/Proton does not choose your Vulkan driver. That’s why your games run well - you aren’t using the one made by AMD.

You’re missing my point. AMD’s official Linux drivers are ALSO garbage. Try it. Go install AMDVLK and check how well games work. You’re almost certainly using RADV, which was not developed by AMD.

What does that have to do with AMD’s driver support? AMD’s Linux Vulkan driver (AMDVLK) was so late and bad that Red Hat and Valve had to make their own (RADV), which is the default in Fedora and SteamOS. AMD’s first party drivers are still garbage.

“^X .*$”

It makes a full screen animation for both parties also. My toddler loves them.

32GB is news. It confirms either a 512 or (more likely) 256 bit bus, which would be a significant drop from the 384 bit on the 4090.

I’m sure the increased perf of G7 would fully offset that, but this means without some larger caches it will be difficult for this to be a massive performance jump from last gen.

Unless they’re going 512 bit, in which case ignore all that and wow is this a monster.

Sounds like you should be in the market for an electric boiler and induction cooktop.

I’m fairly confident “rustls” should be “rust language server” if it stands for anything…

Ideal would be them not reversing a decade of energy savings in the name of AI, but yeah, if they’re going to do that anyway then Nuclear is one of the better options.

I don’t think there’s a good guy. Both parties suck here.

Mostly that it doesn’t work on Steam Deck. Hits memory limits IIRC.

I mostly agree, but it would be nice if it was a bit faster to be able to use it for web browsing. I still like reading long form articles and such but navigating and scrolling isn’t very viable yet on e-readers.

It would allow them to do HDMI FRL also, which is probably what you mean when you say HDMI 2.1. AMD cards also do HDMI FRL I thought. FRL is what allows things like 4k120Hz (higher bandwidth modes). The VRR that the Dock does is the VRR standardized with 2.1, which is why it works on TVs and devices that do not support freesync (see: LG TVs).

Anyway, the Dock doesn’t have a fast enough HDMI converter to do that. It’s not a licensing issue. Next gen Deck/Dock will probably do it.

It does not have a better sensor. The 50mp sensor in the 9 is vastly superior to the 64mp sensor in the 7a.

Actually it works fine on Steam Deck. It uses VRR over DP to the dock, which then translates it to HDMI with VRR. The dock has proprietary firmware to do this.

Intel and Nvidia hardware with open source kernel drivers also do a similar trick where the HDMI part is in a firmware blob. Only AMD does not work with HDMI VRR.

Right. And the regular 9 has the same main camera as the 9 Pro, thus my answer that it is definitely better than the 7a.

No. The regular 9 has the same camera as the Pro, if you mean the main camera. You just miss out on some of the other ones.

Exactly. That’s why it’s a trash motherboard as soon as root access is gained. It can never again be trusted.