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And here I am with a 3090 having more issues than I have time for wishing I went with an AMD card. Sadly we both can see grass ain't necessarily greener.

This reads like an alternate reality for me. I bought a new 3060 ti and using wayland with it is nearly impossible for me. I tried in ubuntu and had tons of errors and in debian/kde it wont even login without x11 enabled.

When you go to protondb.com every game has tons of fixes for nvidia cards and every forum has fixes for nvidia cards while amd mostly works oob.

Pretty sure the 7000 series is known to be not well supported yet since they're new and didn't have massive uptake, so I don't want to be that guy but...

Some research before hand on what GPU to get from AMD wouldn't hurt?

I've got a 6800XT and had absolutely 0 issues since I got it about a year ago. I see from your replies you're on Arch, so I guess just wait for things to improve unfortunately.

Since people normally only report on negative experiences: I was lucky enough to get a reference AMD 6900 XT during the GPU shortages.

Switched from Ubuntu to Fedora for it because Ubuntu didn't have firmware for it yet.

Ever since then it has been a rock solid GPU. Never even had such a stable GPU under Windows.

Have been running Fedora with Wayland for more than 2 years now and can count the crashes on a single hand, most were my fault.

I'm sure once that issue is sorted out that GPU is going to ride along for years with minimal maintenance required.

(You might want to downgrade your kernel until then though)

Yup I'm hit by the exact same bug currently. But I was able to go back to before I updated with Snapper and now I'll wait until the fix is in the Tumbleweed repos.

But other than that I'm much happier with the AMD than with my Nvidia (on Linux that is). VRR with Wayland on multiple monitors just works without issues. And before this week I never had any issues at all with the 7800XT.

What kernel version are you using? 6.7? Unfortunately using the latest and greatest kernel means you'll be among the first to get bitten by new bugs. Does the issue also occurs on 6.6 and 6.1?

Funnily, I only run AMD now for the same reasons, except with Nvidia as the PITA. Always ongoing driver issues, power management or fans running like jet turbines.... Last 3 machines AMD, no issues with the GPU's/drivers.

On EndeavorOS I haven’t had issues with a Vega64 and now with a 6800XT. I followed the AMD Gpu guides from Arch wiki to get everything up and running but that was back when I started the build with the Vega 64. After the upgrade I didn’t even need to touch anything and all non anti-cheat games work quite well. Maybe I got lucky though.

Sorry to hear that. For what it's worth, I've had no problems with integrated AMD graphics, so maybe it's a PCIe issue?

I just got a 7600XT. My only complaint is that it isn’t pushing quite enough frames so I would need something more beefy, but then I will also lose GSync because of my monitors so I will probably simply return it and go back to the 3080. Lower TDP and thermals was quite nice though and wayland was much less buggy. No crashes, I’m on ubuntu tho.

I have a similar story with an RX580, I replaced my GTX 1060 3GB for a 8GB RX 580 mostly because the 3GB of vram were an issue for BeamNG.

Now I can't record my 3 displays with the RX 580, it just fails when trying to do so, and 2 displays results in constant encoder overloads, something that the 1060 had issues at all, also my colors are off when recording and I have no idea why, it even happens when recording with the CPU:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=292196

Also kernel 6.6 broke the power reporting on all polaris GPUs, thankfully that was fixed recently in kernel 6.7.2, but holy shit it took like 6 months to fix that.

I had a rock solid AMD RX 580 up until the release of kernel version 6.7. Now I'm lucky to get a system that can remain up for longer than thirty minutes. Sticking to 6.6 has worked for me and definitely something you should try as well, but it's worth noting that any amount of time spent on the issue tracker for AMD GPU stuff will reveal tons of issues from 6.6 as well.

oh man, reading the comments fill me with fear, as I just ordered a new computer after stretching my old laptop for 8 years or so. I was super close to getting an AMD but went with Nvidia in the end... but so much bad juju in the comments for Nvidia too...

RX 6700 XT here... once I refreshed the thermal pads and the thermal paste, it works great in Windows and Linuxes... Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Bazzite (Immutable Fedora but for gaming), it had no issues with the amdgpu driver builtin on any of them.

It could be your monitor or even monitor cable. I have this monitor which absolutely fucking refuses to work with AMD oved HDMI. If you have inexplicable system sleep issues, black screen issues, startup issues, etc. It could be the monitor at fault

I've always had great experiences with AMD and not Nvidia. Maybe its just there newer cards.

It also matters what Linux distro you have. Some of them are horrible. I'm super happy with amd graphics on arch, and have no issues whatsoever, with probably 30 games in steam library that all works very well.

So I think it may be your system and what drivers you installed, or some other config.

I have a 6900 XT card, latest kernel, latest drivers. But I've had this graphics card since kernel 5.8 I think, with no issues.

Me playing with my 7900XTX no issues on Bazzite

• https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/#about--features

• https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/#features-from-upstream

I use an AMD 7900rx with an AMD 7950x processor since almost a year with Gnome / Wayland on Arch. No problems up to now. Yes, I am a gamer too.

As others said it depends on the distribution you use.

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.

KDE Neon user here, I have not touched any graphics settings and my AMD card runs 32:9 120 Hz flawlessly

Me with a Vega 64... the forgotten platform. A few games will just straight up reset my gpu with certain instructions, taking the whole system with it. I can't even play Minecraft with a Mesa version newer than 2 years anymore due to regressions.

Good thing to know 7800 XT is also cursed though, I was planning on getting that one to escape my situation. lol.

Using amd GX 6600... Mostly going fine, tho I haven't tried any big heavy games. One thing tho... Everytime I turn on my computer, no display. I reboot it and then ot works fine, but ot never does the first time. One path I'll investigate is the monitor: my monitors are both older and use DVI or VGA ports, so I have to use converters. I might try and get my hand on a more recent monitor to see if I still get the same problem. But if I do, I'm not even sure where to ask. I don't even think it's a linux problem, because I tried removing my drive with linux living one with windows and the problem remains. I also was using mint when the problem started and switched to Arch (btw) since and it doesn't change a thing.