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AMD GPUs are cursed for me (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by aksdb to c/[email protected]

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Each time I try AMD graphics, something is fucked for me. Back with fglrx, fglrx just sucked, so I used Nvidia. Then I had an AMD right around when they finally had opensource drivers, but it was still buggy as hell. So I went with Nvidia again (first a GTX 790, then a GTX 1060). In the meantime I had a new work notebook where I also went with an AMD APU, and had driver crashes for a long time when I was in video calls and it had to decode multiple streams. That thankfully stabilized with Linux 6.4.

Since sooo many people in the community swear by AMD, I thought "dammit, let's try it again for my new desktop" and got an 7800rx ... and I have to reboot ~5 times until I finally make it to a running xserver or wayland session. Apparently I am hit by this problem (at least I hope so). But that doesn't even read nice ... the fix seems to be to revert another fix for powermanagement. So I either have a mostly non-booting card or suboptimal power management.

I start to regret having chosen AMD .... again :-/ I seem to be cursed.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My progression of GPUs was roughly this: Several VGA and SVGA cards (fond memories of the S3 Trio), then an ATI Rage Fury 128 which worked flawlessly in Redhat Linux. After that I had only Nvidia cards. The linux/unix drivers worked quite well. Installing and updating the drivers was clunky, but once installed they worked without issue. My beef with Nvidia was, that every single card I had broke shortly after the two year warranty expired. After the fifth card (or so) I decided to go with AMD because they were cheaper and their drivers were supposedly better in linux - though, I never had any noteworthy driver issues with Nvidia. I've been using AMD APUs and dedicated cards for at least 5 years now (gaming PC, media PC in the living room, 5 laptops - work and wife included) and have to say it was a very pleasant experience. The bang for the buck is much better than Nvidia and the drivers are really good. My previous gaming PC was getting to a point where it was no longer upgradeable and I was eyeing a nice package with only one flaw: an Nvidia GPU (3000-series). I wasn't thinking too much about it, because I never had any issues with Nvidia cards except them physically breaking after 2.something years. Boy oh boy do I regret that investment. The Nvidia drivers have devolved into total crap: 50% of my previously playable Steam library has become unplayable. Graphics bugs galore. Luckily I can fall back to my media PC in the living room with an AMD RX 580.