How's the driver situation for the new AMD cards? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] boerbiet@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mudeth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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

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