So I see a very sad trend in tech forums. If it's a thread about AMD or Nvidia, some reason financial stuff gets brought up as if it leeds credence to anything about the GPUs themselves.
So the last Windows 10 creative update took forever to update. I really need to get a ssd.
Also Microsoft, just because I fucking updated you, does not give you my permission to fucking pin your own crap to my taskbar. Fuck off.
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
What Windows or Linux distros can't do is manage different colorspaces at the same time, you can output 10bit just fine. And yeah, any relatively recent AMD card is fine too. Nvidia is also fine as long as you're using Linux since Linux drivers apparently don't turn it off. Having 10bit support won't help you with youtube though, it won't exactly help you with any media consumption whatsoever unless you're using some fancy rendering tricks to force 10bit when gradients are detected (I think both mpv and MadVR can do this) or watching UHD BD content. In the second case you'd also need to make DCI-P3 work, which is doable but then you fuck up sRGB on Windows/Linux (they're hardcoded sRGB, and while you can make it relatively match other colorspaces, things that are in different colorspaces will just be mismatched and look wrong because the system doesn't know the difference between them).
The workaround is doing some configuration on mpv to tell it to put the levels down in order to match sRGB again when needed, but everything else would still be fucked up including YouTube. (You can play YouTube video on mpv too but that'd be getting a little bit too gimmicky).
The only colormanaged desktop OS we have at the moment is OSX/MacOS, and with some configuration you can make mpv output everything nicely and matching their respective colorspaces without much trouble, maybe a hackintosh would be interesting.
I think I turned on 10bit color in Madvr. I personally don't notice the difference though.
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
It's only supposed to make a difference on a 10bit display, with the OS outputting 10bit and even then the difference is very small and only affect obvious gradients like sunset scenes or some backgrounds =p most high end TVs do this by default too, since they all have 10bit panels and the content is almost always only 8bit.
I think any Ryzen+RX550 would be able to handle anything you could possibly think of throwing at it even using the hardware intensive algorithms for chroma and luma upscaling (not sure if you're well informed in the field but even when doing playback of UHD files on UHD displays you still need to upscale chroma). Those cheap APUs would probably also be able to handle everything as long as you don't use any relatively GPU intensive feature. I'd recommend mpv as the video player, the distribution doesn't really matter since you have AMDGPU in the kernel and it works out of the box, but as far as I know AMD only really supports Ubuntu and RHEL with AMDGPU-PRO, which isn't exactly important but whatever.
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I don't really remember the key differences between the AMDGPU base and AMDGPU-PRO, but the later is an proprietary userland overlay that works on top of the fully open source AMDGPU in the kernel to bring some better support for OpenCL, OpenCL, Vulkan and VDPAU. I suppose they're just using some hacks to use parts of their windows driver (perhaps a HAL of some sort, or some abstraction layer on top of their windows code) while they don't natively write it in a way that it's accepted into the kernel itself. But the system is entirely usable without the "PRO" extra, sometimes it's even better.
Holy crap. Just spent a few hours driving for Lyft and made way more money than I thought you could make - before tips too! Here's hoping at least one of them, preferably all of them, tip! :O
Going to start doing this a few hours a day, every day.
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
I can see mine out of my bedroom window. Constantly top 3 in Sweden in the Swedish online business for pizza (onlinepizza.se). So, yay me.