So recently I stumbled across the Nvidia Shield Tablet and apparently a new one is going to release on the 29th...
I want one for game stream and I want to sit on the shitter and play Trine 2 lol. I spend a lot of my time away from my PC (only on it for around 1-2 hours a day) and spend a crap ton of time on my iPad.
I can't stand it anymore. It's terrific for accessibility and it just works but I'm bored out of my mind. There was so much I did on my rooted Kindle before the screen cracked due to my butter fingers. That chocolate is insane /s.
The thing is I currently have an AMD GPU so to utilize game stream not only would I have to get an Nvidia GPU but I'd have to find a way to run an AMD and Nvidia GPU in one system on Linux. I don't think I can give up the rolling release nature of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and as far as I know nvidia open source drivers are crappy.
I know Manjaro has the ability to easily deal with this and I quite like the distro, but there is something about suse that makes it better (not YaST. I use the terminal.).
My question is, will amd ever release a shield competitor? I know splash top exists, but I don't like it. Having a small desktop UI on a tablet doesn't work for me.
AMD is struggling with the products that they already have. They can't afford to venture into new things right now. Maybe if Zen is a hit and they gt tons of money next year, then they might start looking into it. Until then, they aren't worried about something as niche as a Shield.
Bingo good sir. But even still, AMD has a serious amount of debt that is going to come due in 2018 or 2019 I can't remember. It's unlikely that they will venture into such a market.
I hope they survive. I really REALLY do. The consequences for the entire PC market would be far reaching if they fall. But it's not looking good. They closed at $1.67 a share today. I can't remember where exactly but it was on Yahoo finance, and they article mentioned that if they dip to $1.50 you can expect a panic sell to take the stock price below $1.00. If that happens they have 3 weeks to get the price back above $1.00 or end up delisted from NASDAQ.
splashtop can stream games from a pc with an amd gpu to just about any tablet. that said do you have an 802.11ac router if not you may have aton of lag to deal with.
also you'd think AMD would have a ton of money considering they have parts in all 3 game consoles this gen. then they have gpus selling like hot cakes due to bit coin mining. the only flop they made is in the cpu department but thats only because they underestimated they laziness of programmers . alot of them to this day still choose not to optimize their stuff to be multithreaded. DX12 and vulkan are expected to streamline the ability to code for multithreaded cpu's so they have a little help this time. even so the need for single-threaded perfomance isn't going away if zen dosn't get sinifigantly better then amd's current offerings I doubt they will be able to keep investors.
then again the r400 series gpu's could save their bacon if the r7 460 & r9 470 have hbm at a reasonable price.
That's what I was thinking. I think either way I'm leaning towards getting a shield. I want to play PC games native to a tablet as well. I think I'll just strwam via Splash top to my LG G2 when I can get it repaired. I still think the idea of playing Trine and Half Life on a tablet is awesome.