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I read a few posts from a few years ago that they suffered from some sort of ring crash bug frequently.

If you're currently on either of those cards, how is the stability nowadays? Any hiccups or problems, or is it 100% in gaming now?

Bonus question, does the Mesa driver allow you to access the VCN video encoder on the gpu?

EDIT: Thanks for all your responses, everyone! The consensus clearly shows they're pretty balin', and definitely worthy of switching away from Nvidia to. :D

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

RX6800XT on Debian now has native driver support which works like a charm. Ollama with GPU support works out of the box. So does hashcat. Haven't had time to test any Linux gaming yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

I know not directly related to the question but I am running a rx9070xt on Fedora Kinoite (immutable) have had absolutely zero issues. As a matter of fact a few games that would not run on my rtx2060 now run without issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

I had a couple issues with Witcher 3 on my 5700xt. I'm now on a 6900xt and it works great. BTW I use Arch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

6700 XT user here. I'm gaming daily and I have no issues with it, or rather none specific to it's RDNA2 chip.

I can access the H264 and H265 video encoders in OBS via VA-API with no issues and they seem to work fine, as opposed to AMD's Polaris architecture

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I had a ROG Zephyrus G14 "AMD Advantage" laptop with a AMD GPU in it that suffered from these "ring" crashes (according to dmesg). They came and went every few months sometimes with several weeks between crashes. When it would happen, audio kept playing but the display was frozen (can't even go to tty) and I had to force poweroff. The crash could also happen on Windows (I installed it just to test repro) but Windows handled restarting the GPU so it wouldn't freeze unlike Linux. The conclusion, at least in the community of people with that laptop, is that it was a hardware defect and the laptop needed to be RMA'd. ASUS wouldn't do anything for mine though despite explaining the issue to them and showing it happening on Windows.

Either way, I now own a Framework 16 with a 7000 series GPU and am very happy :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

RX6650 XT, everything works fine on my Linux desktop (Tumbleweed), my SO had had some issues on Windows with the 6700XT, but they run games in the background almost 24/7, so it could just be a heat issue in the ITX case.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

not a single issue with my 6700xt. Even Raytracing works, not that I really bother to use it since its such a pointless FPS drain, but thats besides the point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I have a 6700xt and can confirm it's just plug and play. No need to mess with those stupid Nvidia drivers, and the performance is pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

RX6800 here, no issues on Arch other than ray-tracing causing crashes on Cyberpunk, sometimes taking the whole system with it, but as soon as I turned it off everything was groovy. 0 issues on other games, although it's been a while since I've put it to any real challenge, as I've been playing Balatro lately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

6900 XT here smooth like butter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My 5700XT has been good to me, but not perfect.

I've had a few crashes to log-in screen early on in Marvel Rivals and on a couple of occasions in AC Valhalla.

I do need to turn off screen space reflections otherwise textures look grainy e.g. roads in Cyberpunk 2077 and guns in one of the Call of Duty games from 3-4 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

In normal usage they have no problems. The only issue they have always had, is if you try run them in a virtual machine with GPU passthrough.

They have the dreaded AMD reset bug.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I’ve been using a 5700xt for about 5 years and it’s been great.

What is a ring crash?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

No issues with my 7800XT.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Never had any issue with my old RX 5700 XT beside hot temperature and so noise, I have mitigated it with changing thermal paste and undervolting it. 0 issue with my RX 6600, so for my RX 7800 XT either

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I haven't had any issues with my RX 6700 XT. It works great for games and CAD. I've never gotten the video encoding working though. I think it needs the proprietary drivers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I have a 6800XT and not had a single problem, it's been rock solid on Linux and even windows

Not sure about VCN, I do not use it for any video encoding

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Never had issues with my 6800 XT. I've rendered videos on GPU via the option often labeled as VAAPI. x264's veryfast mode on CPU is very much enough for screen recording and streaming, though.

I'm using whatever Radeon drivers Fedora and/or Steam happen to ship with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

6700XT here. Never had any issues. Been using this card for like 2 years on Fedora. Can't comment on the video encoder though.