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I quite like that the AMD aren’t so popular with the AI bubble. It means I can play games without getting a mortgage.
by badgersnake 11mo ago
I quite like that the AMD aren’t so popular with the AI bubble. It means I can play games without getting a mortgage.
- x3n0ph3n3 11mo agoTheir linux driver support isn't so great, though. I really considered an AMD GPU for my most recent build, and based on the driver support for just the integrated graphics on my new AMD CPU (7900X), I opted for an NVidia card instead.
- mkayokay 11mo agoI'm running a 6900XT on Arch and have no problems so far. Steam, Heroic launcher and every game i tried so far worked like a charm. You can even OC with LACT [1] if you want to. [1] https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT
- esseph 11mo agoI have a 9060 in one PC and a 9070 in another, on Fedora 43. It runs great. Run all my steam stuff through them. Those days to mention have been long gone for quite awhile.
- abenga 11mo agoHow so? Switching from an Nvidia card to an AMD one I am now able to upgrade my kernel whenever without getting a blinking cursor after reboot. How are in-tree drivers worse than whatever Nvidia does?
- blactuary 11mo agoQuite the opposite these days. AMD just works and Nvidia is a crapshoot
- J_Shelby_J 11mo agoHow those AMD crashes though. All my friends in AMD CPUs have had a hell of the last two years with constant crashes in unreal engine games. Meanwhile, I made fun of myself for buying an ancient 11 series which is a decade old arch at this point but is rock solid.
- viktorcode 11mo agoJust to point out that those crashes are specific to Windows: current generation of consoles run the same UE games with no crashes.
- badgersnake 11mo agoRX 9070 here. Works fine for me on Linux, also runs ollama-rocm quite well, but don’t tell anyone.
- Balinares 11mo agoAMD CPU, AMD GPU, zero crashes here. No crashes on the Steam Deck either, which is also 100% AMD. The common denominator to the crashes you mention might possibly not be AMD? Do you friends perchance play on Windows?
- tester756 11mo agoMy AMD cpu died after 9 months. I've received money return, but still it leaves a bad taste.
- snovv_crash 11mo agoContrast that with Intel's last generation of chips, all of which started failing after a similar time period. AMD only need to be better than the competition.
- tryauuum 11mo agoit took me around half a year to get an AMD integrated GPU working on linux AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE w/ Radeon 780M Graphics the solution was adding amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffff7fff to the command line. Before that I could reliably crash the driver with firefox.
- akazantsev 11mo agoHad those due to insufficient cooling in the case. Tell him to run the games without the side panel. I installed additional fans later and have had no such issue ever since. xt 7900