The new driver compiled fine on mine with the 4.14 kernel that i'm on.
Did a quick test of metro rdeux on stock 290x @ 1440p
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1511249-HA-290XCRIMS38

Anyone with a NV card do a comparison, I thought I had done some with previous driver versions but guess not

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: pete910Well we don't get the flashy new UI by the looks of it :'(

Would it have been that hard to point the build target to linux......

At a guess, there's a lot more than a UI. It has to interact with the driver directly, after all, so no, it wouldn't be a simple matter to "point the build target to linux". Though I do agree that a better interface is desirable, I do think that it should be done after amdgpu + userspace is properly up & running.

I understand that it talks directly to the driver, but still it's not as of they don't know what to call is it. It's their driver!.

Waiting on AMD is like waiting for the rapture tbh. By the time they've done AMDGPU have it running well + the new UI in place + freesync most of the last AMD user hold outs will have gone green. To be honest come next gen round I may be one of those that jump ship

To be frank the lack of new UI don't bother me, You set what you need to set then never open it again normally. It's the lack of freesync support that pisses me off. Luckily I still haven't gone that route. was looking for a GC + new monitor for my son this xmass , was going the 390 route. It now maybe a green team variant which I don't really want to do.

Sorry, ranting/venting a bit

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Well we don't get the flashy new UI by the looks of it :'(

Would it have been that hard to point the build target to linux......

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New drivers are out now

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86_64

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Put in a question of whether we are getting freesync @ AMDMat on the OC forums driver thread. Don't seem to see it mention in any slides :(

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Alien:iso
Insurgancey
Borderlands 2
X3:Reunion + AP
Natural selection (Vastly improved for those that gave up on it)
Serious Sam 3 BFE
Shadow of Mordor

This is the last 4 months

Although the last few nights I've been playing with the UE4 engine/editor

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Trouble is with UE4 now accessible by joe blogs and from the messing I've done the last few days I think Unity has a serious uphill battle for the "Goto engine"

I have no idea about the money/licensing side of ether so I guess that would make a big difference

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I just can't get into it, I've tried and tried again after the update. It runs great even on AMD, looks good @1440p on movie but, The UI and imbalance is insane !!!!!

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Quoting: pete910Anyone know if the fact geekbench been compiled with clang 3.3(2013) would effect it with regards steamos using the 4xx kernel ? seem to remember reading some good gains in the last few versions of llvm/clang.

Of the Top500 supercomputers only 1 uses Windows and 488 use Linux only (entire Top100) http://www.top500.org/statistics/sublist/ . If the floating points calculations would decrease by 10% when using Linux the owners would loose millions to dozens of millions.

I ran the geekbench mark on my own sys, both win and lin,
Don't get how mine got a better score in linux than windows going on what Ars got with the steam machine. Granted I've got win7. Others have done the same with win10 and there linux install has still beat it.

So I there's something going wrong in the current SteamOS build as like you said, The top 500 would be losing a fair chunk I would have thought.

Scores are here
[url=Linux]http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/4178169[/url]
[url=Windows]http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/4178315[/url]

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Ars has never been a fan of linux tbh. But with what they wrote in the quote proves they don't understand how the ecosystem works either, pinning all of it on valves shoulders as it were.

Anyone know if the fact geekbench been compiled with clang 3.3(2013) would effect it with regards steamos using the 4xx kernel ? seem to remember reading some good gains in the last few versions of llvm/clang.

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