AMD has announced two new GPUs, the Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56. The GPUs are named in reference to the amount of "compute units" included. Both GPUs have 8 GB of High Bandwidth Memory 2.0 VRAM and will be released on August 14.
The Vega 64 is priced at $500 and is said to be on par with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080. The GTX 1080 was released on May 27, 2016 and has a TDP 105 Watts lower than the Vega 64.
Previously: AMD Unveils the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
AMD Launches the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday August 02 2017, @06:25PM
The R7 240 is not high mid range. It is low end, a hint being the $70-80 price tag. You were fooled by the "High to Mid Range" description of the list at videocardbenchmark.net. From what I can tell it's more like the middle of a long list with the bottom being goddamn old and slow cards. You have to be careful with PassMark period, as the numbers can be misleading.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9217/the-amd-a8-7650k-apu-review-also-new-testing-methodology/7 [anandtech.com]
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html [tomshardware.com]
Nvidia's GT 1030 [videocardbenchmark.net] is around that price and more than double the PassMark at 2281.
Linux hostile? Maybe more like open source hostile [pcworld.com].
Now we could call this an epic fail on your part right here, but from the AnandTech benchmarks linked above and this video [youtube.com], you can see that the R7 240 can run modern games at well over 7 FPS. So what's the problem then?
I can only conclude that Trainz: A New Era is a crappily coded title. Lo and behold [steamcommunity.com]:
User created content and long view distances probably hurt too, but you picked the wrong title to judge the state of GPUs by. Make sure you update Trainz to SP2 (horrible patch names for a reason that should be obvious) and come back.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]