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As the title says I have sold my 1080Ti and I am thinking to go ALL RED under Linux.
I have a 1950x Threadripper with Fatality x399 but it doesnt support PCIE ver 4 (I have read that it doesn't matter much in gaming performance )
Anyway I am thinking to buy the Red Devil AMD Radeon™ RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 RADEON RX
https://www.powercolor.com/product?id=1607314166
I was an NVIDIA user for many years so this is my first time to go with RADEON
Anyone had a good experience with 6900XT? Any advice would be much apreciated
Many thanks in advance
Last edited by wolfyrion on 14 February 2021 at 9:42 pm UTC
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PowerColor Radeon RX 6900XT Red Devil Product number 90824551 Available from stock. Reserved for you.
And that was the last one ... no more available...
It's a bloody whopper of a card, better make sure it fits beforehand! This mofo sure didn't leave much room to spare in my old case. You'll also need a beefy PSU, I wouldn't feel good with anything under 850W. Got a 1K unit here and haven't seen any issues, using all three power connectors on separate cables.
Linux support isn't perfect really, adjusting voltages/fans/clocks etc is said to improve with kernel 5.12. Nevertheless, it works great and runs hella fast. Gets a bit warm in my case as the airflow isn't optimized for this huge card that generates quite a lot of heat and dumps it right into the case air. It's below 60 C idle so the fans don't spin at all then.
FWIW, I run Siduction with Mesa git.
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Last edited by Shmerl on 15 February 2021 at 9:51 pm UTC
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Running Kernel 5.11 and Mesa 21.0.0rc4
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I just got the 6900 XT on Friday so I had time to play during the weekend.
This card is really a beast...
The only problem I have is that I use 4 monitors and when monitors go on standby - some of them dont wake up and sometimes it messes the KDE UI since one monitor is not waking up.
if I reeboot is ok , sometimes with arandr I may fix it but is very annoying.
Anyone has a solution for this ??
Thanking you in advance ..
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amdgpu had some wake up bugs recently. Fixed in 5.11.3 and on.
Last edited by Shmerl on 7 March 2021 at 11:49 pm UTC
EDIT: Oh, looks like it might be fixed in 5.11.3 already, so if you're on that, nevermind. I'll upgrade later today and give it a whirl myself.
EDIT2: 5.11.4 works just fine, so you're probably hitting something else. Assuming your kernel is up to date. But I suppose it's something to do with power management in any case.
Last edited by tuubi on 8 March 2021 at 9:16 am UTC
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If arandr does the trick, you may want to create an script with xrandr and add a keyboard shortcut on your DE. I recall using this as a workaround with three monitors in a lenovo dock and it worked flawlessly (I remember that the workaround was to switch to one monitor and back to three - one script + shortcut for each action)