On a side-note, old GPU box artwork was a wild genre
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT [2012] Finally Working On Linux
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Totally, and this one isn’t even from the truly unhinged era of the ‘90s and early 2000s.
This might have been the end of it actually. I don’t remember seeing that stuff when the R9 series started.
Ngl, I miss it
This title is not accurate. The GPUs worked on Linux already, but only with AMD's old proprietary RADEON driver. The news is that they are now supported by the Free Software AMDGPU driver.
The radeon driver wasn't proprietary, just old and superseded by AMDGPU. AMD's old proprietary driver was fglrx.
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holy shit is this real
Yea the 2010s were certainly a time for GPU boxes...