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22-Way Comparison Of NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Cards On SteamOS For Steam Linux Gaming

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When it comes to the best performance-per-Watt, the GeForce GTX 970~980 was generally leading the pact.
If I were to build a SteamOS/Linux living room gaming PC today, I would likely settle for the GeForce GTX 960 or GeForce GTX 970 for a 1080p display. The GeForce GTX 960 can be found for around $200+ at Amazon while the GeForce GTX 970 is closer to $300. With the GeForce GTX 970 you can get high-end performance while still having nice options for small form factor PCs like this GeForce GTX 970 Mini ITX graphics card.

If you are a devout AMD user, you'll be best off waiting.... Either for the RadeonSI+AMDGPU open-source driver stack to support enough of OpenGL 4 to support all interesting Steam Linux games at decent frame-rates, a miracle to happen for the Catalyst OpenGL Linux driver, or if AMD is able to deliver a competitive Vulkan driver in a timely manner and game developers are quick to jump on this next-generation graphics API.
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https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steamos-22-gpus&num=1

Interesting article here on how AMD and Nvidia compare on SteamOS/Linux - Well worth a look for those who are interested and plenty of game results.
 
Lokken86 said:
What's the point in playing games on Linux on any platform if I may ask?
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Probably less bloat and you need both for options, I do not like having Skype and Flash on a dedicated gaming machine ( Steam box) is laughable when you could just have a HTML5 browser. This is just the small bits that irritate me nevermind Cortana and the other mindless bloat.

Windows does suck. SteamOS i would hope is a very refined and slimmed down OS like tinyXP was in the day for me. I could actually feel the difference in smoothness and fps between that and any other modern OS in DX 9.
 
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Lokken86 said:
What's the point in playing games on Linux on any platform if I may ask?
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Nothing yet, but in the future when games are coming out for SteamOS it will make for a nice Home system under TV for some games. The OS is free, future updates will be free.

Vulkan API will be the break through for Linux I feel. The Porting from DX12 should be better and in return we should see more games release.
 
SteamOS is the potential rival to windows and a good way of getting console gamers into PC gaming. I can't really say I would use it but if it had something to entice me, who knows???
 
<1% of gamers will find this a great pointer on which card to get greg, hope you keep us updated.
 
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would have been nice to see a comparison between windows and steam OS! I thought that would have been more important than a AMD vs nVidia bench on steam OS... Am i right?

All i can take from this is AMD cards suck so far on steam OS and they need some major work to be done. But nVidia results are all over the place anyways. A 680 beat a titan x and 980Ti?? Sayyy whaaat?

edit- i wouldn't say it's interesting and i wouldn't say its a good comparison. All you have to look at is nVidia results and see they are all over and a mess. They you also see subliminal results on AMD hardware. All i can see is a lot of work need doing and optimisations. There isn't much to take from this other than it looks a mess and AMD needs to do some work.
 
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