AMDGPU

[GoinEasy9]

Hi

I'm in the middle of putting together a new desktop box and was planning to use an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G CPU. From looking at a couple of threads recently I see that some of you have had problems with their amdgpu's. Towo even pointed to a kernel bugzilla that may or may not been resolved yet. I'm not sure if the bug is for regular installs or for those installs inside VM's.

Can I get some feedback from those of you who own amdgpu's? I've been using the open radeon graphics with an older radeon card without problems, should I be wary of the 5600G?

Thanks in advance
Tom

[samoht]

Hi @GoinEasy9,

I am not sure, if my posting is of any value for you.
Since some month I use a Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Gen 2 Tiny PC and I am fully satisfied.

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System:    Host: tuxxy2-sid Kernel: 5.14.15-2-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/1
           Distro: siduction 21.1.1 C-Blues - kde - (202102190822)
Machine:   Type: Mini-pc System: LENOVO product: 11JJ0002GE v: ThinkCentre M75q Gen 2
           serial: N/A UEFI: LENOVO v: M3CKT2FA date: 08/02/2021
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350GE with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir driver: amdgpu v: kernel
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz

Greetings,
Tom

[towo]

At the moment, there is a problem in upstream kernel 5.14.15+ and 5.15 with RyzenG systems, but in siduction, i have reverted that relevant commit and have reported that problem in kernel bugzilla. Now i have to wait, what is going on.

[GoinEasy9]

Thanks samoht
An inxi of an existing system is always helpful.

Thanks towo
I guess I'll hold off on the amdgpu for a bit. I had a hell of a time finding a motherboard who's bios didn't need to be upgraded for the 5600G, I should have sensed something was off and investigated further. Appreciate you posting the link to the kernel bugzilla.

[whistler_mb]

I have been using a PC with AMD 4700G since February 2021 and it works.

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System:    Host: Tuxovo Kernel: 5.14.15-1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.2
           Distro: siduction 21.1.1 C-Blues - kde - (202102190822) base: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 90Q3004BGE v: IdeaCentre 5 14ARE05 serial: <superuser required>
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 3728 v: NOK serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: O4ZKT27A date: 02/18/2021
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4700G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache:
           L2: 4 MiB
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 114981
           Speed: 1211 MHz min/max: 1400/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1211 2: 1697 3: 1697 4: 1609 5: 1948
           6: 1696 7: 1212 8: 1212 9: 2106 10: 1578 11: 1219 12: 1397 13: 1412 14: 1311 15: 1550 16: 1697
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 0b:00.0
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution:
           1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.14.15-1-siduction-amd64 LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.4
           direct render: Yes

[GoinEasy9]

Thank you whistler_mb

I'm still investigating the 5600G. Today NewEgg dropped the price to USD $229.00, so I'm tempted but weary. Thanks for your inxi of your system, it puts a plus one with the amdgpu. A similar system build that's Intel based is going to run me $200 more, so, I'm still looking.

Thanks again
Tom

[GoinEasy9]

Hi

Just a follow up ... went with the amdgpu.

$ inxi -Fd
System:    Host: siduction-kde Kernel: 5.15.2-1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.3
           Distro: siduction 21.2.0 Farewell - kde - (202109171658)
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550M AORUS PRO-P v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: F12 date: 01/18/2021
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB
           Speed: 1864 MHz min/max: 1400/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1864 2: 1454 3: 1697 4: 1696 5: 1695 6: 1648
           7: 1566 8: 1696 9: 1323 10: 1212 11: 1696 12: 1697
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cezanne driver: amdgpu v: kernel
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution:
           1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.15.2-1-siduction-amd64 LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.5
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.2-1-siduction-amd64 running: yes
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
           Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: yes
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169
           IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 18:c0:4d:8d:11:9a
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.04 TiB used: 14.07 GiB (0.7%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-9YN164 size: 1.82 TiB
           Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 100.4 GiB used: 9.28 GiB (9.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 1022 MiB used: 3.3 MiB (0.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-3: /home size: 522.36 GiB used: 4.79 GiB (0.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 20.6 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sdb4
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: 29.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 25.0 C
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:      Processes: 292 Uptime: 34m Memory: 15.13 GiB used: 2.18 GiB (14.4%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.07

Still working out the kinks, but, it seems to be working out great.

[samoht]

Thanks for sharing, @GoinEasy9.  Thumbsup for your new machine

[dibl]

Yes, thanks.  Nice machine!

My trusty HP 350 laptop from 2014 is dying -- wifi is getting flaky and the lid cannot be closed because I had to reinforce one of the corners last year to keep it from breaking off.

I'm getting a new laptop designed to run linux from System76. It comes with their Pop! OS but I don't expect that to last long.