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Given my own pain with an RX 5700XT, I'd suggest waiting a few months after big navi release to upgrade. For Linux, it's been more than a pain, and pretty much

Given my own pain with an RX 5700XT, I'd suggest waiting a few months after big navi release to upgrade. For Linux, it's been more than a pain, and pretty much have to install with a 5.3 kernel base os to begin with for it to work from the start, saw a lot of just black screens in the nearer term distros. When the 19.10 Ubuntu came out, it mostly just worked, then after an update, blank screens... same with 18.04 and the supported drivers. On windows, a number of issues, reset, more issues. Since around 5.4 kernel, and now on 5.6 rc, it's been much better, and the recent driver update for Windows has stabilized. Just the same, would have been better off with NVidia for the past 5 months or so. I was planning on waiting until January to build, but was having issues with my old system (i7 4790K). So built out with an x570 mb, and 3600, swapped out with 3950X late december. Had a few issues with motherboard drivers as well (intel bt and wireless very bleeding edge). At this point I'm very happy though. Just took a while to stabilize and wouldn't go bleeding edge AMD again, but would wait 3-6 months for any new chipset or gpu.

ByThyGrace 7y ago
New RX 5000 series XT owner here. On Linux Mint 19, I was forced to install kernel 5.5 from mainline Ubuntu deb packages, also mesa drivers and libvulkan from the unstable padoka ppa, but since then it has been a smooth lockdown experience. I'm not using latest Ryzen though so I wouldn't know what bleeding edge AMD on the CPU side feels like.
- tracker1 7y ago
  On the chipset side has mostly just worked, afaik, there've been enhancements that work better for scaling/timing etc... but I haven't noticed issues there. Aside, RGB support for linux sucks.
blaser-waffle 7y ago
Did a Ryzen build with a 5700 as well, tried to make it work but essentially just said "screw it" and installed the latest Fedora; ain't nobody got time to screw with graphics drives. Worked fine. Fedora likes new stuff -- sometimes too new, which broke my nVidia card in the past -- but the AMD drivers on board work fine.
mrguyorama 7y ago
I run a Sapphire pulse RX 5700 XT on Windows 10. My only issue was an old driver was causing crashes on a very specific, very niche game, but that was fixed weeks before I actually went to play the game, and wouldn't have known about had I kept my driver up to date, ie, it was an issue for a very short time and I'm impressed by AMD's responsiveness to a small indie. There seems to be large variance in the different 5700XTs. Some of the third party ones don't have adequate cooling and quite literally cannot meet their intended specifications, like the ASUS TUF line. I have no idea how well it works on Linux

ByThyGrace 7y ago

New RX 5000 series XT owner here. On Linux Mint 19, I was forced to install kernel 5.5 from mainline Ubuntu deb packages, also mesa drivers and libvulkan from the unstable padoka ppa, but since then it has been a smooth lockdown experience. I'm not using latest Ryzen though so I wouldn't know what bleeding edge AMD on the CPU side feels like.

tracker1 7y ago
On the chipset side has mostly just worked, afaik, there've been enhancements that work better for scaling/timing etc... but I haven't noticed issues there. Aside, RGB support for linux sucks.

blaser-waffle 7y ago

Did a Ryzen build with a 5700 as well, tried to make it work but essentially just said "screw it" and installed the latest Fedora; ain't nobody got time to screw with graphics drives. Worked fine. Fedora likes new stuff -- sometimes too new, which broke my nVidia card in the past -- but the AMD drivers on board work fine.

mrguyorama 7y ago

I run a Sapphire pulse RX 5700 XT on Windows 10. My only issue was an old driver was causing crashes on a very specific, very niche game, but that was fixed weeks before I actually went to play the game, and wouldn't have known about had I kept my driver up to date, ie, it was an issue for a very short time and I'm impressed by AMD's responsiveness to a small indie. There seems to be large variance in the different 5700XTs. Some of the third party ones don't have adequate cooling and quite literally cannot meet their intended specifications, like the ASUS TUF line. I have no idea how well it works on Linux