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Re:Steam Machine by AnotherGoodName on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:55PM (#45904317)
It's a very low end Radeon 7000 series. It's absolutely incapable of the highest texture quality and rendering resolutions that need more than 8GB of VRAM. You'll likely never go above 1080p on this card (1440p is going to be rough based on benchmarks of the existing low end 7000 series).

There's absolutely no reasonable way to use more than 8GB of VRAM on this card.

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Re:Steam Machine by hs86 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:19PM (#45904826)
Even modern low-end GPUs should have more than enough fill rate for high-res textures. The texture quality setting in games is usually not affecting performance at all until VRAM runs out.
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Re:Steam Machine by AnotherGoodName on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:29PM (#45906098)
Part of that is that the texture detail scales to the point where on a low end card at low resolutions you aren’t seeing any difference between high and low detail textures.
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Re:Steam Machine by ThatPlayer on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:00PM (#45905572)
No DisplayPort 2.0 is interesting because RDNA3 should support that.

More importantly, FSR4 (currently) doesn't support RDNA3, so you'll be limited on upscaling too.

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Re:Steam Machine by gps0 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @05:00AM (#45912938)
Unofficially you can use FSR4 on RDNA3
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