I am looking to build a new PC this year, either current gen AMD Ryzen 7000 and Radeon 7000, or wait till the newer stuff launches later this year.
with that I am looking for feedback on stability with newer hardware on linux using amdgpu amd-ucode and the linux kernel.
Currently I run an R7 5700X and a RX5700 on Arch linux kept up to date regularly (daily or weekly at min). I have had a few minor issues here and there with the mesa driver and lutris but nothing a rollback couldn’t fix.
What is your experience with newer hardware on a rolling release distro?
If you’ve had good times or bad times please provide feedback I would love to hear from the community.
EDIT: I decided to go with a Sapphire RX 7900XTX, card is amazing. keeping with my current motherboard and CPU for now but will likely upgrade my R7 5700X to a R7 5700X3D based on a recommendation from a friend and very promising 10 - 30 FPS uplift depending on the game. Thanks for all the feedback its much appreciated!
Not on a rolling distro, but on the latest fedora (so pretty close but not quite as bleeding edge).
I have a Ryzen 7000, using the iGPU and a nvidia dGPU (no AMD dGPU). I had some weird driver issues with the iGPU ages ago, but the past 9ish months things have been fine. No stability issues.
Running Garuda with a 7800XT and no particular issues in Xorg, or Wayland (other than those which are categorially, of wayland). I typically go through, if not steam, then heroic, though neither in the below example.
Not to dissuade by any means but if you have a board happy with a 5000 series CPU now, then perhaps a 5800X3D will get almost anything you really can get from a CPU upgrade anyway, at least for the moment, and without need of replacing the current board and RAM. Games will vary, but the observed kerbal physics recieved far more of a slingshot from that, than upgrading the RX5700. (with added benefit, the justification that technically, it was for running orbital simulations).
Thank you for the feedback, the reason I’m thinking of upgrading is that I have an X470 board and I’m on my 3rd CPU upgrade. I pass on my current hardware to my wife each time I upgrade.
The biggest improvement for me would be just the GPU though I am looking to completely move away from water cooling and simplify my setup by running standard Air coolers for both the CPU and GPU and figured I get the full use of my PCIe4 capable NVMe drives by upgrading the motherboard in the process.
Thank you for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it.
I’ve been running a 7600XT on Arch since roughly the launch date and updating to new kernels roughly every week - no issues.
One thing to bare in mind is AMD GPUs won’t do 4k @ 120Hz over HDMI using the open source driver because the HDMI consortium are a bag of dicks. I use 4k @ 120Hz over DisplayPort and no problem.
For my main gaming PC - with Steam - I’m running Ubuntu 23.10 on a ASRock B550 MB with 5600x/6900 XT with no issues; it started as Ubuntu 19.10 and has been upgraded many times (with a Ryzen 3600/5700XT gfx card originally).
Will be updating to 24.04 once released.
My “workstation”, which I also play games on occasionally - has Fedora 39, ASRock X670E MB with a 7950X and 7900 XTX (or 6700XT) - I never have any issues with this either. Will update to Fedora 40 once it’s released
I’m largely in the same boat as the OP, but I’m rockin’ much older hardware: i7-5930K and a RX Vega. And yeah, I’m also a Linux guy. I’m currently planning a build with 7000 series parts, but waiting for the 8000 series parts to drop first. Hopefully there will be some price adjustments at that time. Plus, I don’t want to be a crash test dummy with 8000 series parts for the first six months.
In the meantime, I’m debating whether getting one of those Sapphire Golden Rabbit GPUs makes any sense with my antique CPU. Frankly, the 5930K has been a monster for me and it still keeps right up with my workload and the games that I play, but I’m not so sure that it is up to the task of keeping a 7000 series Radeon GPU happily fed at 1440p. I’m sure that the “rabbit” card won’t be happy, but it’s still bound to provide an uplift over the Vega card that I currently have.
Anywho, I’m just thinking out loud after reading the OP’s post.
Cheers!
