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Summary: This was on Linux using kernel mitigations. The performance impact can be very significant to some workloads, like databases and compression, but most users likely will not notice any impacts.

While Herkelman didn’t specify what those “major” announcements could be, AMD is due to launch new Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards sometime this year. During an earnings call earlier this month, AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company will reveal “enthusiast-class Radeon 7000 series cards in the third quarter” of 2023.

Ever since I got my RX 6800 XT I have noticed that when I tab out of a game or try taking a screenshot with the Snipping tool, my cursor would turn into a horizontal line. It would fix itself if I move it around a bit, but I have never had this issue before. I have the latest drivers installed. This is happening on Windows 10.

Previously I had a GTX 960, but I uninstalled all Nvidia drivers before installing the AMD ones.

Does anyone else have this issue and how did you fix it?

Im finally moving to AMD gpu. I have decided on RX 7900 XT and i need your help to choose which brand. Im debating between Asus Tuf and Sapphire Pulse. They are priced the same (8€ difference) but Asus is coming with 2y warranty while Sapphire with 3y. So far I only had experiences with Asus and I didnt have problems with their gpus, i had some minor problem with mbo (5+y ago) What are your experiences with Sapphire and which gpu would you recommend?

Thanks!

AMD has disclosed INCEPTION, a new speculative side channel attack affecting Zen 3 and Zen 4 processors. It requires new microcode. Zen 1 and 2 CPUs require a kernel-based solution. New firmwares will be incoming soon. Check your vendor pages.

Hoping that this will make its way into a RX 7500 too for regular consumers as a LP single-slot GPU. Would be quite the upgrade over the RX 6400.

The high idle power bug with the chiplet RDNA3 GPU's has been plaguing AMD since the damn things were released. I, too, ended up experiencing desktop idle TBP's of 100W or more, which is absolutely ridiculous.

I discovered that in my system, it occurs in this configuration:

• Two monitors connected- one via DP, one via HDMI.
• The HDMI monitor is set to HDR mode in Window Display settings.

Disabling HDR, or disconnecting the second monitor, both fix the bug. Disabling HDR sucks if you have a monitor that supports it, but yknow... saving 80W when watching youtube or writing a document? Worth it.

This part is interesting:

For the iGPU side, the AMD Ryzen 8000 "Strix Point" APUs will be configured with the AMD RDNA 3.5 GPU cores with 8 WGP's (Work Group Processors) and a total of 16 Compute Units for up to 1024 stream processors. That's a 33% increase in the number of stream processors and if clock speeds will remain the same at around 2.8-3.0 GHz range, we can expect up to 12 TFLOPs FP32 compute horsepower which will mark a 42% increase over the current fastest RDNA 3 iGPU, the Radeon 780M.

It seems AMD might be shifting its focus towards the mid-range segment (once gain), with the introduction of a new successor to the RDNA3 architecture. This move would bring AMD back to its roots when the company prioritized the mid-range segment with RDNA1/Polaris.

cross-posted from: https://lib.lgbt/post/110426

AMD, which reports earnings next Tuesday, has finally brought 3D V-Cache to mobile. ASUS' ROG Strix SCAR 17 X3D will come with Nvidia's RTX 4090 mobile GPU.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.7.2 Release Notes

Fixed Issues

• Stuttering may be observed while playing Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II with Radeon™ Anti-Lag enabled.
• Intermittent corruption may be observed around some player models while playing Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+™ on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6900 XT.
• Higher than expected GPU Memory Utilization when using certain Record and Stream settings such as Instant Replay.
• Display signal may be lost after switching windows on certain Adaptive-Sync enable displays on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.
• Audio may intermittently become out of sync with video when recording from AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition with AVC and HEVC codecs.

Known Issues

• Performance Metrics Overlay may report N/A for FPS on various games.
• High idle power has situationally been observed when using select multi-display setups with mixed high-resolution and high refresh rate displays on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
• Intermittent corruption may be observed playing Rocket League™ with Bloom set to Off on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6900 XT.
• Intermittent application hang for a few seconds may be observed while playing RuneScape™ on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 5700 XT.
• Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Ratchet & Clank™: Rift Apart with Ray-Tracing and Dynamic Resolution Scaling enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.
• Audio may intermittently become out of sync with video when recording from AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition with AV1 codec.

Important Notes

• Factory Reset has been temporarily disabled as a precautionary measure while we address isolated installation issues that have been reported during PC upgrades. Users may use AMD Cleanup Utility as a temporary option.
• AMD is working with the game developers of Ratchet & Clank™: Rift Apart to resolve some stability issues when Ray-Tracing is enabled.

It seems that the rumour about a China only release was false. Could be really good value if you want to build on AM5 so that you can upgrade down the line and you don’t need an iGPU.

I've noticed recently that if I turn on Vulkan mode in a couple of games (Baldurs Gate 3 and Doom 16) the game will lock up/crash.

Everything I read suggests it supports it and I do remember playing through Wolfenstein II which uses Vulkan so I think it works.

The card is a RX580 4GB

Wendell talks Genoa and Bergamo from the new 3d V-Cache CPUs from AMD

I'm currently running a rx580 (with a 5600x and 16gb of ram), and its finally starting to show its age and not be able to run at the settings i would prefer, at the frames I would like.

This is a card I'll probably, barring its sudden demise, be sticking with for the next 5-6 years, So keep that in mind too. I know vram demand in games is on the rise too, even for 1080p, which is why I have not considered any 8gb cards like the 6600 or the 7600.

I've narrowed my choices down to the 6700xt, 6750xt and rx6800 (non-xt). Which will be used almost entirely for 1080p gaming (maybe 1440p if my current monitor dies and I'm forced to replace it)

6700xt is attractive simply because its the cheapest. 6800 is attractive cause its more powerful, which I would hope means I'd get a bit more extra time out of it.

6750xt is kinda stuck in the middle.. -100ish bucks cheaper than the 6800, but also 70-90ish bucks more expensive than the 6700xt, and from all the reviews I've seen, it seems like it only averages around a 5-8fps boost over the 6700xt which doesn't exactly seem worth the investment?

This is where I need the advice of those who are more experienced/knowledgeable than I am.

Would the 6800 have enough horsepower to be viable long enough after the 6700xt/6750xt hit their limits to be worth the price jump, or Should I save 100 bucks and get the 6750? Or should I just go straight with the 6700xt and save almost 200 bucks?

My gut is telling me 6700xt, but I'd like some outside, hands on experienced opinions, if you'd be so kind to give them, before I can quash the debate in my head.

The release of the Ryzen 3 5100 and Ryzen 5 7500F is great and all, but is there any news on low-end AM5 CPUs? Specifically something like a Ryzen 3 7100. While AM4 is a great platform and AM5 might not be the most cost effective choice right now, I’d like to buy something that can be upgraded in the future, if needed.

AMD has begun to enable its next-generation Family 1Ah, or Family 26 processors, presumably based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture, in Linux. The patch submissions come in preparation for a commercial launch in the coming quarters, reports Phoronix. The initial patches reveal some of the first details about AMD's server CPUs based on the next-generation microarchitecture.

Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh.