I’m a long time AMD user both my GPU and CPU. I have a powerful enough PSU and a b550m-plus mobo.
I’m looking to do gaming, light AI work, computer programming, running Docker server services.
I have a Radeon 6900xt, but it doesn’t work well with Linux anymore. amdgpu fails to load, and I can only boot by adding nomodeset to my boot entry.
With ArchInstall I even tried reformatting with xfs, ext4, btrfs, without encryption, with and without LVM, selecting both ATI OS drivers for all GPUs, and drivers for AMD gpus, with systemd-boot and grub.
Even Fedora on USB only boots with nomodeset.
Windows seems to boot fine.
I assume it may be a problem with system reading the drivers from the GPU.
I have onboard HDMI for graphics, but I’ve never got it working.
tbh, my 6900XT was too powerful anyways. I do game in 4K with my 55" TV on the highest settings, but it seems I was still barely using the GPUs full potential.
Funny enough, I seem to have had more problems with high end GPUs in the past than low end GPUs.
Might as well also try out Debian 12 and Ubuntu.
I have a 7600 and it works well with Debian 12. Also, my CPU doesn’t have an iGPU, so can be sure that’s how it is working.
I love Debian. Literally the worst possible choice for GPU drivers.
But it works.
Not necessarily. In the case of this specific GPU, both 12 and 13 support that model quite well. I can’t tell if Trixie supported RDNA4 out of box, but if it doesn’t, I’m sure Backports does just fine.
Though I am a Debian fan, I don’t think trying another distro will help too much.
While I am not a Debian fan and my system runs much smoother when using Arch, it shouldn’t hurt to try.