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This looks cool but can it game? (sopuli.xyz)

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I was browsing on system76's offering to see what PCs they have and noticed that they have an ARM Computer that apparently faster than the fastest Apple Mac but for cheaper (Based), but I'm wondering, how well does ARM computers game on linux with proton, it is very expensive to me atm and I can't afford it, but maybe in the future I could consider it to be my first desktop as I always been using laptops, obviously gaming isn't like the main priority as I would like a workstation to do heavy work such as blender and stuff and perhaps put gentoo on it in the future (if its supported) but I would like to game on the side when I'm winding down that's all, so can it game well?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 29 minutes ago

The Ampre Altra runs from 32 to 128 cores (dear gods that's beautiful), but with that architecture, and the company's stated purpose, it makes more sense in a computer meant to be used as a server rather than a desktop gaming rig. You'd use a chip like that in a Kubernetes cluster for example.

Combined with an Nvidia card, a brand notorious for being a Pain In The Ass in Linuxland, I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the intended purpose of a box like this is a server for AI/ML-based services.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

Arm processor, an nVidia graphics card, and Ubuntu? Err, doesn't sound great.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I think Jeff Geerling made a video trying to game on a similar arm system with mixed results. I'm sure it would work, since you can game on a Raspberry Pi using Box86/64, just probably not too well for the money

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

I watched his video, but he didn't cover that in great detail unfortunately, I was wondering if someone already owns one so he can tell me his review about it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

Proton for ARM is not (currently) a thing, if that's a factor

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

If I paid so much money it better game the shit out of games. But I honestly doubt ARM can with the overhead of emulation. And they don't even specify what kind of nvidia graphics it has. This tells me that the system isn't really meant to be used for gaming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

If I paid so much money it better game the shit out of games.

Laughs in Apple

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

up to RTX 6000 ADA

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

@Ace120C , well, after a super brief search, it seems like it can run Steam and thus game technically. However, the performance costs of stacking "emulation" on top of each other seems rather burdensome. If you're running a Windows game on Proton, you have those call Windows-Linux conversions stacked on top of the x86_64-ARM call conversions. I can only speculate, maybe it's not as big of a thing as I imagine it being.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

considering the cpu can reach crazy core counts wouldn't that help perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I'm not too familiar on how well the x64 - ARM conversion works, but in general gaming tends to be more dependent on single core performance and I'd assume that emulating single core functionality with multiple cores doesn't really work, or at least with performance you'd need.