News - Gigabyte launches BRIX Gaming barebone box

[watercooled]

Where does the name "Kaveri" come from? It means "a friend" in Finnish, but is that where it comes from? There's also a river called Kaveri in India.

AFAIK it's named after the river.

[MustardCutter]

If this can be updated to a Kaveri + Crossfired Mobile Radeon, this could be a nice little gaming media centre box for the living room.

My thoughts as well, I'd add that it should have faster ram too to maximise the onboard gpu.

Kaveri + ddr4 and a mobile radeon crossfire would make a pretty impressive low cost steam machine.

By the time DDR4 is adopted by AMD I think Kaveri will have been superseded

[aidanjt]

They're pretty rapidly improving catalyst on linux, presumably in anticipation of exactly this type of solution. Kaveri + ddr4 and a mobile radeon crossfire would make a pretty impressive low cost steam machine.

They've been 'rapidly improving' it for more than a decade. They're still lagging behind kernel, and X.org releases, stability is still rubbish, and the performance is still miserable. Nothing has really changed since the last Radeon I bought. As far as I'm concerned the entire driver is defective end-to-end, and tweaking it is like trying to get a destruction derby wreck to perform like a Formula 1 car. There's no point handing out false hope to people, it's just going to upset their Linux/SteamOS experience if they do own/purchase AMD graphical hardware for that purpose.

[Biscuit]

They've been 'rapidly improving' it for more than a decade. They're still lagging behind kernel, and X.org releases, stability is still rubbish, and the performance is still miserable. Nothing has really changed since the last Radeon I bought. As far as I'm concerned the entire driver is defective end-to-end, and tweaking it is like trying to get a destruction derby wreck to perform like a Formula 1 car. There's no point handing out false hope to people, it's just going to upset their Linux/SteamOS experience if they do own/purchase AMD graphical hardware for that purpose.

The only thing you can suggest to people is, 'give it a go and see'. You learn pretty quickly how much hard work it takes to get working for such poor results.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

There is also an Intel based equivalent too AFAIK with the same GPU.

However,it also makes the Iris Pro version a bit pointless - it looks to be a similar size to this model.