Also Linux generally had better 1% lows, lower RAM usage, and lower CPU usage. A big part of this is that AMD no longer updates the Windows drivers for the RX 580.
Idk how trustworthy this youtube channel is, but crazy to think the RX 580 released in 2017 and the 8GB version was ~$230 lol
absolute workhorse of a card, still have one on a very old Dell with CachyOS on it.
CachyOS is also a fantastic distro. I use the CachyOS kernel on my NixOS laptop. And the recent CachyOS Protons on steam are great. Also have some great Arch repos. It’s just a great distro that tries to improve just about everything and does it well.
Are the cachy protons worth running instead of GE? Or is it on a case by case basis?
Lately I’ve been playing the Last Caretaker on steam and for the first time I found myself shopping around for Protein’s because Proton Experimental couldn’t run the game. proton-cachyos was the winner out of all that I tried. Some wouldn’t play the menu videos, some didn’t play the intro video. The CachyOS proton ran everything perfectly.
If I recall the point of the cachy protons is so you don’t need to install GE on cachy. So if you already have GE then it’s pointless. And if you already have cachy then installing GE is pointless.
I mean I haven’t noticed any real differences and the performance on both have been great. If you’re using CachyOS they’re in there by default so no need to install something like ProtonUP-QT to easily get the GE protons if you don’t want to.