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Are AMD laptop discrete gpus good in linux? (self.linux)

submitted 8 months ago by Waffelson to c/[email protected]

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I want to buy used laptop with rx6600m and r7 5800h
Does switch between discrete gpu and apu work on linux for amd gpus?
Maybe there are some pitfalls?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

AMD gpus used to be very bad, but improved a lot in the last 2-3 years. I doubt you'll have any issues these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I've had 3 laptops with AMD GPUs in the past - including the last one I still own that use in my shop - and my personal experience so far with Linux is that I'm about ready to kill someone: the machines are unstable, the displays get corrupted, they don't wake up from sleep...

This last AMD GPU laptop I have (Vega 6 chipset) needs rebooting on a regular basis, and only kind of works okay with an older 5-series kernel.

Having said that, all the bad experiences I've had with AMDGPU were with machines older than 3 years. If you say the hardware has improved, I'm glad to hear that. But one thing is for sure: the latest driver is just as buggy and unreliable as it ever was on older hardware.

Maybe newer chipsets with newer drivers now work well. But you know what? I swore I'd never EVER get another machine that requires amdgpu.ko. I'll go Intel graphics, it's just safer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Weird. I never had those problems. Which distro were you running?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Linux Mint - any version.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I had huuge problems with AMD gpus in 2019. By 2023 the problems were gone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

In my experience, once you hit Vega 8, all issues are gone (Fedora, OpenSuse, PopOS and EndeavourOS).

Yes, I distrohop a LOT 🤣