<story><title>Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13796/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2060-349-dollars-january-15th</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jnr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m also sticking to Nvidia GTX 970 for now but would be nice to upgrade at some point. I was hopeful about AMD&amp;#x27;s offering but after trying Ryzen 2400G APU on my Linux media box I am not going to touch new AMD hardware again with a ten foot pole any time soon. Their Linux drivers are a nightmare, freezing display all the time, requiring power cycling. Nvidia works nicely and I don&amp;#x27;t really mind the bigger price tag.</text></item><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Have to wait for benchmarks to say anything definitive, but from the specs table it looks like performance is in the ballpark of the 1070. Same TFLOPS, faster memory clock but not as much memory, TDP is 10W higher.&lt;p&gt;At $350 that sounds like a tough sell over the 1070, which is finally down to $300 after rebate. Unless you&amp;#x27;re really excited about the raytracing stuff.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m underwhelmed for 2.5 years of progress since the 1070 (mid 2016). Just sticking it out with my 970 until it dies, which will hopefully be until there&amp;#x27;s something new worth upgrading to.&lt;p&gt;Maybe AMD has something more impressive up their sleeves in the mainstream price range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dave7</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s probably done enough damage to their reputation in your estimation to not matter, but please note these Linux problems are specific to the Raven Ridge APU [1] - not the case using a discrete AMD GPU, the open source drivers for which are by many accounts absolutely superb these days.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a shame, I want a 2400G to replace my ageing A10 Trinity media box, will probably give it a try fairly soon expecting latest kernels have this solved by now...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phoronix.com&amp;#x2F;forums&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;linux-graphics-x-org-drivers&amp;#x2F;open-source-amd-linux&amp;#x2F;1045801-is-there-any-kernel-on-which-raven-ridge-cpus-are-stable&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phoronix.com&amp;#x2F;forums&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;linux-graphics-x-org-d...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13796/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2060-349-dollars-january-15th</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jnr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m also sticking to Nvidia GTX 970 for now but would be nice to upgrade at some point. I was hopeful about AMD&amp;#x27;s offering but after trying Ryzen 2400G APU on my Linux media box I am not going to touch new AMD hardware again with a ten foot pole any time soon. Their Linux drivers are a nightmare, freezing display all the time, requiring power cycling. Nvidia works nicely and I don&amp;#x27;t really mind the bigger price tag.</text></item><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Have to wait for benchmarks to say anything definitive, but from the specs table it looks like performance is in the ballpark of the 1070. Same TFLOPS, faster memory clock but not as much memory, TDP is 10W higher.&lt;p&gt;At $350 that sounds like a tough sell over the 1070, which is finally down to $300 after rebate. Unless you&amp;#x27;re really excited about the raytracing stuff.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m underwhelmed for 2.5 years of progress since the 1070 (mid 2016). Just sticking it out with my 970 until it dies, which will hopefully be until there&amp;#x27;s something new worth upgrading to.&lt;p&gt;Maybe AMD has something more impressive up their sleeves in the mainstream price range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opencl</author><text>Raven Ridge APUs in particular are terrible, every other piece of AMD hardware has very dramatically better Linux support than NVIDIA&amp;#x27;s GPUs.</text></comment>