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What problems have you experienced with AMD drivers? I'm asking because Nvidia has been an absolute pain on my laptop (e.g. sleep is terribly broken), and I'm

What problems have you experienced with AMD drivers? I'm asking because Nvidia has been an absolute pain on my laptop (e.g. sleep is terribly broken), and I'm considering a switch over to the Ryzen 4700U, which has pretty powerful integrated Radeon graphics. So I'm trying to decide if I should instead switch to i7-1065G7 instead, which has good integrated (Intel) graphics. This is a really important question to me; I would appreciate any answers.

fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
I ran into an amdgpu when I built my most recent desktop (the card would randomly lock up and turn its fans on full speed with some combination of OpenGL and power management.). I think it’s been fixed, though, I haven’t had any issues for several months now.
Athas 6y ago
I have been running open source AMD drivers on my desktop since I got it (early 2018, Vega 64 GPU). They work well, and after so many years, it felt like a revelation to have problem-free high-performance 3D acceleration after a fresh installation of a default Linux kernel. The only place where AMD is still wonky is when you want to do GPGPU, but that is mostly down to AMDs byzantine and schizophrenic software strategy (just try to pin down which parts of ROCm you need, or what they do). You don't have to worry about that for graphics, though, as the amdgpu driver is in the kernel, and the default Mesa OpenGL works perfectly with it.
cycomanic 6y ago
I've been running a rx480 for quite a while and the amdgpu drivers in the kernel are completely without problems (I've recently started gaming a bit again and fallout 4 runs on highest settings under proton without issues) . At some time I tried the pro drivers and performance actually degraded. I can second what somebody else posted, that doing gpugpu is a bit of a pain because it's difficult to figure out what to install. On the other hand Intel isn't really better there.
aidenn0 6y ago
At work my workstation has a Radeon pro, with Kubuntu 18LTS. The most noticable thing is that the KDE taskbar freezes (interestingly enough, the taskbar is my biggest driver issue, as on Nvidia it will render as garbage, and the garbage changes when I scroll in Firefox. With nouveau, Xorg just crashed about 4x per week). Switching to a text console and back clears up the issues for a few hours to a few days.

fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago

I ran into an amdgpu when I built my most recent desktop (the card would randomly lock up and turn its fans on full speed with some combination of OpenGL and power management.). I think it’s been fixed, though, I haven’t had any issues for several months now.

Athas 6y ago

I have been running open source AMD drivers on my desktop since I got it (early 2018, Vega 64 GPU). They work well, and after so many years, it felt like a revelation to have problem-free high-performance 3D acceleration after a fresh installation of a default Linux kernel. The only place where AMD is still wonky is when you want to do GPGPU, but that is mostly down to AMDs byzantine and schizophrenic software strategy (just try to pin down which parts of ROCm you need, or what they do). You don't have to worry about that for graphics, though, as the amdgpu driver is in the kernel, and the default Mesa OpenGL works perfectly with it.

cycomanic 6y ago

I've been running a rx480 for quite a while and the amdgpu drivers in the kernel are completely without problems (I've recently started gaming a bit again and fallout 4 runs on highest settings under proton without issues) . At some time I tried the pro drivers and performance actually degraded. I can second what somebody else posted, that doing gpugpu is a bit of a pain because it's difficult to figure out what to install. On the other hand Intel isn't really better there.

aidenn0 6y ago

At work my workstation has a Radeon pro, with Kubuntu 18LTS. The most noticable thing is that the KDE taskbar freezes (interestingly enough, the taskbar is my biggest driver issue, as on Nvidia it will render as garbage, and the garbage changes when I scroll in Firefox. With nouveau, Xorg just crashed about 4x per week). Switching to a text console and back clears up the issues for a few hours to a few days.