News Raspberry Pi 5 teams up with Radeon GPU to run Doom Eternal with RTX on at 4K — the combo also tackles Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, an...

[Admin]

A leading Raspberry Pi torchbearer has demonstrated games like Doom Eternal, Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4, running at 4K on the humble $50 SBC.

Raspberry Pi 5 teams up with Radeon GPU to run Doom Eternal with RTX on at 4K — the combo also tackles Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, an... : Read more

 

[bit_user]

I know this is meant to be silly:

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...but, it is pretty absurd. The base M4 iMac's CPU is like 10x as powerful as the Pi 5's.

If you really wanted a Pi-class machine to use an eGPU with, then a RK3588 board would be a better choice, as some of them offer up to PCIe 3.0 x4 connectivity (and more RAM), where the Pi 5 can barely manage x1. Or, maybe get an Alder Lake-N board.

 

[ezst036]

It is incredible what can be done with that tiny little Raspberry Pi.

 

[bit_user]

It is incredible what can be done with that tiny little Raspberry Pi.

What I really want to know is whether it's running in emulation. I looked at the transcript of the youtube video, but all he says is that he installed it via Steam. I'm not sure whether steam includes some x86 emulator on ARM.

I think that could be a key point. If you're somewhat limited to games natively-compiled for ARM, or if there's a big additional performance hit when you run something that actually is using emulation, then it could be the point where even having a dGPU won't save you.

 

[geerlingguy]

All emulated with Box86/Box64 (that's how Pi-Apps installs Steam, all through an x86 emulation layer.

Arm-native games perform incredibly well in comparison (look at SuperTuxKart, which was completely maxed out and smooth... though it's not a modern AAA game...).

 

[bit_user]

All emulated with Box86/Box64 (that's how Pi-Apps installs Steam, all through an x86 emulation layer.

Arm-native games perform incredibly well in comparison (look at SuperTuxKart, which was completely maxed out and smooth... though it's not a modern AAA game...).

Awesome! Congrats on getting that working and thanks so much for dropping by!
: )

P.S. Speaking of SuperTuxKart, my favorite old skool Linux game is called Trackballs. It's in most distros and even Raspbian. However, the last time I tried it on a Pi was Raspberry Pi v4 and that didn't go very well. It runs great on my Intel N97 board, though.

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[koopy]

I admire Jeff and have followed him on YouTube for a very long time. I like theoretical builds and especially kernel recompiles to enable hidden features. At my job I've worked tirelessly to break the company's Windows addiction, converting servers to Linux. They're currently in another phase of completely reimaging all stations to client Windows once again to avoid an enormous licensing price increase. It's comical to see that they think they need Windows to use git and develop in Python. Trailblazers like Jeff have given me lots of ideas to slowly edge more and more Linux presence into the corporate environment.

However, I think the only realistic solution to gaming on Linux SBCs at this time is Moonlight and Sunshine with an appropriately powerful qemu VM with vfio passthrough GPU streaming performance. There are hacks out there to evade anti-cheat detection as well, and I fully encourage everyone to use them or refuse to buy software from companies with Linux Derangement Syndrome. I refuse to play games that implement measures to block Linux.

Good day and keep up the theoretical work