I want to buy used laptop with rx6600m and r7 5800h
Does switch between discrete gpu and apu work on linux for amd gpus?
Maybe there are some pitfalls?

  • @turkishdelight@lemmy.ml
    29•9 months ago

    AMD gpus used to be very bad, but improved a lot in the last 2-3 years. I doubt you’ll have any issues these days.

    • @ExtremeDullard
      3•9 months ago

      I’ve had 3 laptops with AMD GPUs in the past - including the last one I still own that use in my shop - and my personal experience so far with Linux is that I’m about ready to kill someone: the machines are unstable, the displays get corrupted, they don’t wake up from sleep…

      This last AMD GPU laptop I have (Vega 6 chipset) needs rebooting on a regular basis, and only kind of works okay with an older 5-series kernel.

      Having said that, all the bad experiences I’ve had with AMDGPU were with machines older than 3 years. If you say the hardware has improved, I’m glad to hear that. But one thing is for sure: the latest driver is just as buggy and unreliable as it ever was on older hardware.

      Maybe newer chipsets with newer drivers now work well. But you know what? I swore I’d never EVER get another machine that requires amdgpu.ko. I’ll go Intel graphics, it’s just safer.