I got my 9070XT today and decided to compare it to Windows gaming performance. I play 99% of all my games on Linux but sometimes I need Windows. Since I heard the AMD 7000/6000 GPUs perform almost identical on Linux and Windows I decided I would test my new GPU. Please post your results as well, even if it's just Linux results as it would be interesting to compare.

I am on a Ryzen 5800X3D CPU paired with my 9070XT and 32GB of RAM on CachyOS running the release candidate of kernel 6.14 and Mesa 25.01. All numbers are in 4K or 1440p with no upscaling.

Space Marine 2:

Linux 4K: 55-65 FPS

Linux 1440p: 60-75 FPS

Windows 4K: 60-75 FPS

Windows 1440p: 100-120 FPS

Monster Hunter Rise:

Linux 4K: 105-170 FPS

Windows 4K: 205-250 FPS

Hunters Inc. Playtest

Linux 4K: 58-65 FPS

Windows 4K: 75-85 FPS

Elden Ring (Ray Tracing Low, South Raya Lucaria Gate, looking at the encampment from the bridge)

Linux 4K: 28-35 FPS

Windows 4K: 45-50 FPS

The GPU Seems to have around a 15-30% performance drop in Linux compared to Windows at the moment. Especially in Monster Hunter Rise where in gameplay Linux hovers around 120 fps and Windows almost double that at 220. In Space Marine 2 the difference is even larger in 1440p where Linux maxes out at around 70fps and Windows easily hovers around 110fps on average.

Also interesting thing I noticed is that in Monster Hunter Rise the GPU refuses to pull more than 180W in Linux, but in Windows it pulls the full 320W+.

Definitely not perfect out of the gate for the 9070XT but I didn't expect that either. It would be fun to see how it is running in other distros and configurations.

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I've been trying to connect my 8bitdo sf30 pro to my laptop but every time it connects but then immediately disconnects. I even tried using blueman via the terminal and ensuring the controller is a trusted device, but no luck. I checked to see that blueman was on the latest version and it is.

OS: LinuxMint 22
Kernel: 6.8.0-53-generic

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Got a 9070 XT on launch, had some hiccups getting it working. Documenting the steps which I took here in case anybody faces similar issues, but I can't guarantee these will work to fix your issues - YMMV. I've been using linux full time for only around a year, so I'm no wizard, and I probably can't help much for other problems.

Initial Errors Type Spec CPU Ryzen 9 5900x GPU Gigabyte 9070XT PSU Corsair RM1000x OS Fedora 41 DE KDE (Wayland)

I previously had a RM750x, and I bought a new PSU after a couple hours because my system was crashing immediately once the power load increased on the GPU. Which, yeah, the minimum spec on my card was 850W. So that was one me.

With a new PSU, it was much more stable, but I was still facing crashes under high loads. Not like before from too little wattage, but now more sporatic, and it would just freeze seemingly at random.

I used journalctl to track and log these crashes. Here's an example command to pipe journalctl to a log file if you are not famillar:

journalctl -S today > /[SOME DIRECTORY]/crash.log

Here's an example of where my system crashed:

Mar 07 21:06:26 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State Mar 07 21:06:26 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State Completed Mar 07 21:06:26 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=527602, emitted seq=527604 Mar 07 21:06:26 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: Process information: process GameThread pid 6841 thread vkd3d_queue pid 6915 Mar 07 21:06:26 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: Starting gfx_0.0.0 ring reset Mar 07 21:06:28 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: Ring gfx_0.0.0 reset failure Mar 07 21:06:28 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset begin! Mar 07 21:06:31 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: MES(1) failed to respond to msg=REMOVE_QUEUE Mar 07 21:06:31 celestia kernel: [drm:amdgpu_mes_unmap_legacy_queue [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to unmap legacy queue Mar 07 21:06:32 celestia kernel: [drm:gfx_v12_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to halt cp gfx Mar 07 21:06:32 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: MODE1 reset Mar 07 21:06:32 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: GPU mode1 reset Mar 07 21:06:32 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: GPU smu mode1 reset Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset succeeded, trying to resume Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000008000000000). Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: PSP is resuming... Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: RAS: optional ras ta ucode is not available Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: RAP: optional rap ta ucode is not available Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: securedisplay ta ucode is not available Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is resuming... Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: smu driver if version = 0x0000002e, smu fw if version = 0x00000031, smu fw program = 0, smu fw version = 0x00683900 (104.57.0) Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: SMU driver if version not matched Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is resumed successfully! Mar 07 21:06:33 celestia kernel: WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1936 at drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml2/dml2_dc_resource_mgmt.c:91 dml2_map_dc_pipes+0x2483/0x4080 [amdgpu]

When I crash, the following happens:

1. The display freezes.

2. After a couple seconds, both monitors turn off.

3. After some more seconds, they turn back on, but one display is black and the other green.

As well, when I booted into Fedora, there was a message that popped up for only a millisecond saying `Overdrive is enabled'.

This, combined with the Ring reset failure, I was able to deduct that there was probably an issue related to - overdrive? power regulation? Not sure, to be honest. But it was useful to know it almost certainly was a driver issue, not a physical failure that required RMA.

Steps I took Updating Core Packages

Check out this Level1Tech forum post, which helped me through my troubleshooting. They recommend updating to a new kernel, mesa 25, and latest firmware. An update-to-date Fedora should have mesa and kernel versions that are adequate, but to update my linux-firmware, I used this copr:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/danayer/linux-firmware-git/

After doing this, I found my card to be A LOT more stable, and I was able to play Cyberpunk with Ray-Tracing for a couple hours. However, I still crashed after that.

CoreCtrl

I used CoreCtrl to lower the power limit on my card from 330W to 315W. Not sure what the effect this had, but I just wanted to make sure that the crash wasn't related to power. Make sure that you set up CoreCtrl completely. I already had it installed. This helped stability more, but didn't seem to solve the issue completely.

ppfeaturemask

In the CoreCtrl setup, it asks you to add amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff to your grub config. I set mine to amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xfffd3fff . According to this reddit post, this will disable PP_OVERDRIVE_MASK, PP_GFXOFF_MASK, and PP_STUTTER_MODE. This sounded about right for the problem I was having, so I went ahead and changed that. I'm unsure if turning off stutter mode is needed? But I set it anyways.

Conclusion

After all this, I think my system is stable now, but we will see as time progresses. I've played a couple hours of Marvel Rivals and Cyberpunk 2077 now. I'll come back and add some edits if anything progresses or if I continue to crash.

My takeaway? Maybe using Day 1 hardware isn't a great idea LOL! I'm sure as packages get updated and pulled into the regular Fedora repo, this won't be an issue.

Hope this helps somebody, cheers!

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Hello there,

anyone came across extremely strange case when you experience 99% GPU usage but only roughly ~ 150W power draw with 9070XT? The card does not even spin its fans, it stays dead quiet, yet it states in MangoHUD that it indeed runs @ 99% usage, but only drawing 150W??? How is that even possible?

No, my FPS is not maxxed out, it is "only" around 130 FPS, my screen is 165Hz so there should be plenty of space to push even further. I do not understand at all how the GPU can be utilized at 99%, draw only ~150W and not even push the frames it is supposed to.

I am pairing it with AMD Ryzen 5 7600, ASUS TUF GAMING B650M-PLUS, the power limit is set via LACT to 304W out of possible 340W.

Any idea what is going on?

// I am running latest Mesa 25.0.1, Linux-cachyos 6.13.6.

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Hi, my partner and I would like to play with Split Fiction. We only have DS4 controllers which seem to be working fine with BG3 wirelessly, but not with Split Fiction... I'm not using sc-controller or anything else, just plain blueberry and steam which is enough for other games. I saw that Split Fiction doesn't support DS4, but surely with Steam Input, it should work? Any advice? I'm using EOS.

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It's a USB connected Xbox360 third party controller. Steam finds it but the game does not.
Installing Xboxdrv doesn't seem to work.

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My kids messed with my laptop and now when I plug my HDMI to my T.V it shows the home screen from my laptop on my T.V screen. I tried the Microsoft button and "P" but none of the options there work. What do I do?

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Hello,

I've recently installed CachyOS, so i'm not the smartest about Linux and gaming.

I play mainly CS2 and with stretched resolution and the solution for this seems to be Gamescope which is working fine. But when closing my game the entire screen is black, I still can Alt + Tab for changing between the open windows or use the keyboard shortcuts.

The issue seems to be coming for Gamescope since from my understanding it create a "virtual" screen and I don't have the issue when not using Gamescope. Also i've searched for this issue but found no similar cases.

Thank you in advance if someone has the solution.

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I'm trying to figure out if my computer can runs the game, on paper I have the specs to run it at highest quality, but it sure as hell doesn't run that good. It even crashes my pc.

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Got debian 12 on my personal computer! I made a partition on one of my disk and installed debian there, the others disks are just for windows and so i can play games that cant run on linux, example iracing. Now the next steps are adding more space to my debian, because right now as im testing it and i only asigned 30gb. Also i need to migrate all the data to debian and make debian as my principal SO and Win as a secondary just gaming SO. Tell me any advice! 🐧

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Hello! I've only been using Linux on this PC for about a year. After some testing, I switched to CachyOS. At first, everything was great, but after a while, problems started.

When I'm playing after a few minutes the game starts to stutter, the strange thing is that it only happens when I move the mouse or press something, when I die I go to the kill view for example, if I don't move anything it stays smooth, if I move the mouse it gives me a problem.

I've tested several different distros and kernels, x11 and wayland, refresh rates, turning off vsync, resolutions, proton, gnome, KDE, xfce, cinnamon, bisgie, cosmic... Disabling Resizebar in BIOS, using legacy, overclocking, downclocking...

And believe it or not, I installed Windows 10 and the problem is gone! But I want to use my CachyOS only.

If anyone can help me solve it I will be very grateful.

MB Biostat b550m-silver

CPU 5600X

Air Cooler Rose Mide Storm 8

GPU RX7600 Asrock

RAM 32Gg 3200Mhz dual channel

1Tb NVME Kingspec NX PCI 3

Display Acer 16:9 1080p 75hz

Case King95

Power source Cooler Master 650w

Keyboard Akko 5075s

Mouse Redragon Storm M808

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I'm trying to play the majoras mask recomp from an appImage file but cannot seem to be able to launch it from heroic, I have selected both the appImage files an exec and also tried making a .sh file that opens the appImage but neither of these launch the game, but they open just fine directly from the file manager

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Olá! Uso somente Linux nesse Pc por volta de 1 ano, após uns testes fiquei no CachyOS, no início estava tudo lindo, mas depois de um tempo começaram os problemas.

Quando estou jogando após uns minutos o game começa a engasgar, o estranho é que só acontece com mexe o mouse ou tecla algo, quando morre que vai pra visão de abate por exemplo, se não mexer nada fica liso, se mexer o mouse dá problema.

Já testei várias distros e kernels diferentes, x11 e wayland, taxas de atualização, desligar vsync, resoluções, prótons, gnome, KDE, xfce, cinnamon, bisgie, cosmic... Desativar Resizebar na BIOS, usar em legacy, overclock, downclock...

E por incrível que pareça, instalei o Windows 10 e o problema acabou! Mas quero usar meu CachyOS somente.

Se alguém me ajudar a resolver serei muito grato.

MB Biostat b550m-silver CPU 5600X ( Air Cooler Rose Mode Storm 8 GPU RX7600 Asrock RAM 32Gg 3200Mhz dual channel. 1Tb NVME Kingspec NX PCI 3. Monitor Acer 16:9 1080p 75hz Gabinete King95 com Fonte Cooler master 650w Teclado Akko 5075s Br Mouse Redragon Storm M808

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Thinking of upgrading from my 3080ti, to a 9070XT, and thought I would kill two birds with one stone with the better Linux compatibility

I know the drivers aren’t going to be the best at the beginning, but has anyone had any luck running steamOS with this? I heard on some AMD cards you can run it with no modifications

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howdy, im finally going to jump the shark and install Linux on my main computer to primarily use. my plan is to Keep my Windows partition on my 500GB m.2 for playing stuff like COD and Fortnite and other anticheat games, and then put Linux on my 1TB SSD to do everything else. i have two other HDDs that im not sure how to partition. either split it down the middle or just give everything to Linux. either way works for me. in the end im going to do a full wipe of windows anyways i think, saving everything i want to keep of course.

the main thing im wondering is what Distro i should use. im already a big fan of Mint, its on every other computer i own. im pretty familiar with it. but i also want to finally try a more gaming centric distro like Bazzite or Chimera. i dont really know how much of a sacrifice it is to go with a more gaming centric Distro. is there any sacrifice at all? i dont really think so. it would be cool if i can keep the look of Mint while also having all the gaming plugins and stuff of Bazzite or whatever. idk

anyways that’s pretty much it, if you have any suggestions or ideas id appreciate it. thanks in advance.

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I'm using Fedora 41, Gnome. Through dx11 I get good frames but terrible stutters whereas dx12 has less stutters but poor performance although playable on my gtx 1650. My main goal is to lock the frame rate for stability but even after the locking the frametime graph goes crazy.

I've used in-game frame limit, mangohud's frame limit as well as VKD3D_FRAME_RATE=30. None of them give any stable results. Witcher 3 is the only game where I've faced this issue.

Does anyone have any solution or facing the same issue?

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