Usually I’m not hopefull for newly released cards but this arch has already been out for almost a year so it should be a bit less dire, right?

[edit] So the results are in and the verdict is: still kind of unreliable with some people having a good time and some having a bad time. Awesome. I’ll just wait a bit. Thanks for the comments everyone 👍

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      Omg I thought I was the only one with this issue, constant playback freezes, sometimes if I watch too much video accelerated content whole system crashes, and after a while with or without accelerated content I get weird artefacts all over the screen. (680M)

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        Yeah I also get the playback freezes. It does work better in X11, but then it almost begs the question why I even got an AMD device in the first place.

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          Same here, I simply can’t go back to X11 especially after the smoothness of everything and after trying the gestures in gnome, my workflow is kind of dependent on gestures now

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    Very well supported by Mesa. I do see more issues regarding the 7000 series compared to the 6000 series though, I guess they put more effort into the RDNA2 driver because of the steam deck.

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    I’ve had a 7000-series card since December and haven’t experienced any driver issues. Using KDE with Wayland and two monitors. My only complaint is the power use when I go over 60Hz, but maybe it has to do with one of my monitors. This is what I see happening:

    • Both at 60Hz: 25W
    • Using only display A at 120Hz: 25W
    • Using only display B at 120Hz: 90W
    • Both at 120Hz: 90W

    I was hoping some driver update would fix this but by now I’ve given up. As for gaming experience, I have zero complaints. Big titles I played were Cyberpunk 2077, Remnant 2 and Elden Ring and they performed great.

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      I have a 7900 XT also on KDE Wayland with 3 montiors: one 4k@144Hz, one 1080p@144Hz and one 1080p@75Hz and my idle power usage is around 70-80W I believe, around 90W when I watch a 4k video

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      Isn’t this an intrinsic problem with AMD graphics chips? I thought this was the case on windows as well.

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    Im running a 7000 card on Arch since January (7900xt) without issues. For the first 1-2 months I had to install the git version of the drivers from a separate repo, but it still worked like a charm, a thousand times better than Nvidia (not only performance wise)

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    I have a RX 6700 XT that I got earlier this year. I was imoressed that things just work. Okay, you might be in doubt about which driver to install, but it’s much better and easier than Nvidia.

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    VR is atrocious, everything else is amazing, though I think I’m having issues with something related to OBS screen capture causing hitching. Could be a number of things inside or outside of Mesa.

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      VR has been atrocious on AMD linux for years what the hell are they even doing

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        It’s really no better on NVIDIA, in fact its much worse since async reprojection likes to break more often on NVIDIA for some reason, VR in general on Linux is atrocious.