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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.

How 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.

Just to point out that those crashes are specific to Windows: current generation of consoles run the same UE games with no crashes.

RX 9070 here. Works fine for me on Linux, also runs ollama-rocm quite well, but don’t tell anyone.

AMD 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?

My AMD cpu died after 9 months. I've received money return, but still it leaves a bad taste.

Contrast 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.

it 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.

Had 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

Their 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.

I 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.

I'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

How 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?

Quite the opposite these days. AMD just works and Nvidia is a crapshoot

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