hi fedi friends.

[natty@astolfo.social]

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I wonder if the used market wisdom is still to get Polaris

[izzy@social.shadowkat.net]

@natty @eniko an RX580 is like $120 here it's not a bad deal and it'll run anything I play perfectly

[natty@astolfo.social]

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place huuuh I've seen them go for much less, like half

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@eniko On the other hand, the iGPUs built into AMD HX 370 class CPUs are actually pretty damned impressive and comparable to a lot of mid range dedicated GPUs in laptops.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@izzy @natty excuse me kitsune tails 2024

[izzy@social.shadowkat.net]

@natty @eniko that's AUD so it's probably 2/3 of what you're thinking
but also that's through a used electronics store rather than ebay so

[virtulis@loud.computer]

@Mudlark @eniko can confirm "performance bad" for 5600G, idk if 5700G is any better.

I mean, the CPU is great. The GPU, uhh, well it can, in fact, output a video signal reliably.

Anecdotally, I could play Risk of Rain 2 on my ancient NUC6i7KYK and I can't on this. Part of it is certainly RoR2 getting worse, but still, wow.

[natty@astolfo.social]

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ah

[jes@labyrinth.zone]

@izzy @natty @eniko my 3500u has a Vega 8

[mdstevens0612@mas.to]

@luana @eniko Even older dgpus. My old 1050ti dog walked near everything but current gen high end igpus, and those still get dog walked by both the 1060 6GB and the 1080. There are cards that IGPUs definitely killed, the display adapters with like 512mb of VRAM but those things are pretty much a product of a bygone era.