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planned Proton replacement (lemmy.ml)

submitted 12 hours ago by inlandempire@jlai.lu to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've cancelled my subscription yesterday, conveniently it was about to renew at the end of the week, so I have a few days to migrate from Proton, here's what I'm thinking of, but I'd love to hear what other people are switching to

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What does "lower-end" mean in this case? 8GB VRAM could be anything from a 2014 Radeon R9 290X to a 2026 RTX 5060.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Radeon RX 7600, but yes, you're right, it's relative. It's good enough for any gaming I do, which is not an awful lot. I think it's considered mid-range for its generation, I guess I was just thinking of the GPUs I see people mention they have which seem much beefier than mine lol.

I'm no AI expert but when I looked into it, it seemed that VRAM was the biggest factor being mentioned in discussions of GPUs, hence why I mentioned it.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I’m no AI expert but when I looked into it, it seemed that VRAM was the biggest factor being mentioned in discussions of GPUs, hence why I mentioned it.

I could be wrong, but I think there are differences not just in FLOPS but perhaps more importantly in what kinds of functions are supported (with newer GPUs becoming gradually more general-purpose), so I'm not sure if the GPU from 2014 is capable of running AI models at all (slowly or otherwise).

I actually kinda want to find out, because my old GPU is a Vega 56 (which is also 8GB) and I'm not sure if it would be useful or not.