[plug] Optimised software & Potentially biased Lab speed tests vs real use speed and reliability

[Nicholas Lloyd]

Hi Daniel,

I went all AMD on my build from late last year.  There were a couple of 
teething issues in the first few months, but all have been sorted out by 
early this year.  I'm running a 3900X and 5700XT.  I'm not really fussed 
on PCIe 4 for graphics performance at the moment, but I have 2 x NVME 
gen4 SSDs in RAID 0 (mdadm), and they don't compete for bandwidth with 
the GPU.  I can also swap out the graphics card later for one with 
higher performance if desired because I'm not  limited by PCIe 3.  I 
wanted a build that had a jump in performance, and would last me for years.

There were driver (and UEFI) issues at first, but I don't have any 
issues now, and I'm quite happy with it.  For what it's worth, this was 
also my first AMD machine.


-Nic


On 20/04/2020 2:47 pm, Daniel wrote:
> Hi
> Still looking at hardware choices for desktop Linux at home: I recall watching someone say that the most expensive product of a certain ‘fashionista’ computer company wasn’t much faster than one that cost much less because most software wasn’t optimised to make use of its capabilities.
>
> Is the supposedly 69% faster PCIe 4 worth going out of my Intel comfort zone ... will a Linux box (cpu & video as below) work well and go a lot faster?
>
> Ref
> https://www.pcworld.com/article/3400176/pcie-40-everything-you-need-to-know-specs-compatibility.html
> ~~~ AMD ran Futuremark’s unreleased PCIe feature test to show how a Ryzen 7 3800X coupled with a Radeon RX 5700 in PCIe 4.0 mode offered 69 percent more PCIe throughput performance than a Core i9-9900K and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ~~~
>
> Thank you
>
> Daniel
> (In Perth but I don’t get out much)
>
>
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