[confident_inept]

I had an AMD APU setup that I used for a while as a light gaming rig. I'm impressed to see these chips continue to grow in capability and be offered at reasonable prices.

I'm curious how the FOSS video driver for these fares on Linux. The newest discrete cards have random full system lockups and driver crashes that make them unusable for anything that stresses the GPU.

[saltcured]

I have had a Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U based Thinkpad T495 since 2019, running Fedora.

I can't remember many full system lockups, but there may have been a few. I ran Steam games on it for a year or two before switching those to a different system. But I ran a number of Linux native or Proton-based games and it was the best performing system I had for a while.

What I do recall is that OpenCL barely worked and could get into strange "stuck" states only resolved by rebooting. I could still use the windowing system for a bit, but some kernel calls seemed to begin hanging. It was very disappointing, as I knew this machine had a lot of FLOPS I could have put to use if the OpenCL drivers worked.

One quirk I never resolved in Linux is that the mouse pointer would seem to jump around sometimes while typing. I haven't seen this on any other Thinkpad and it seemed to persist across multiple different Fedora installations. No adjustments to the "mouse" controls menu seemed to make a difference.

I recently started using a Ryzen 7 Pro 7840U based Thinkpad P14s. It doesn't seem to have either of these two issues, but I haven't used it for very long. I find it to be an impressive machine so far.

[Aleklart]

Green screen of death indeed. Had them on 4800h laptop regularly. Laptop worked fine on Windows. AMD already dropped support for vega igpu so I guess these will never work in Linux. May be RDNA drivers is better because Valve using them in Steam Deck. Still AMD can break it at any release as they did many times.

[seanw444]

I have a dual-GPU setup, with a 6900 XT passed through to a Windows VM for games. So I guess I can't say anything about new cards having issues. But the amdgpu drivers are fantastic on the RX 570 that Linux does touch.

[Scramblejams]

Can you point me to resources regarding these lockups? I regularly game on Linux using the FOSS amdgpu driver (kernel 6.5) with a 7900 XTX, which is relatively recent (i.e. RDNA3), and I haven't seen any yet.

[nateb2022]

I currently have a 3 year old 5800H APU from 2021, which replaced a 2400G (2018) I had before it. I've generally had no issues at all with the integrated graphics.

[sylware]

The AMD APU you can find in the steam deck running valve FOSS 3D drivers had lockups?