What a card it is.
It’s easy to get lightly obsessed with upgrading PC gaming hardware, but if Linux developer Linus Torvalds is still on an old card, maybe I don’t need that RTX 50-series GPU just yet.
As spotted by Phoronix, Linus Torvalds is still rocking an AMD Radeon RX 580 GPU in their rig, alongside an Intel i9 15th-Gen laptop. These were found in the notes for a DRM regression in Linux 6.17.
In these, a user asks, „Is that the Polaris card still?“, to which Torvalds responds, „Same old boring Radeon RX 580. lspci calls it „Ellesmere“, don’t know about the Polaris codename.“
When we reviewed it back in 2017, we gave the Radeon RX 580 an 88%, praising its whopping 8 GB of memory and good DX12 performance. We did note, however, that it uses more power than the Nvidia GTX 1060.
Launching at a price of $229 in April 2017, the Polaris 10-based RX 580 was built on TSMC’s 14 nm process, with a base clock of 1257 MHz and a TDP of 150 W, and was AMD’s top card of the day.
