RX7600: Linux Plug And Play 120fps Gaming

foreign [Music] RX 7600 is launching and I've got the sapphire pulse we're gonna do a Linux box upgrade because why not we've got our our relatively cheeky scrappy little system here it's an am5 system with 64 gigabytes of memory rocking on our MSI mortar b650 Wi-Fi yeah I've got the fractal all-in-one cooler got it in a little defined Mini case for Micro ATX motherboards this system will do about anything you want and this GPU isn't overly huge or loud and it doesn't get hot this is a much better design in terms of cooling than the reference design of the RX 7600 which I also had and reviewed on the main level one text Channel but this is this is Linux where we can all just sort of have a little fun and get to know one another now I've temporarily installed a Samsung 980 Pro in here so I can sort of walk through the installation for this GPU but I actually recommend a solidon p44 pro it's cheaper and faster than the Samsung 980 Pro Samsung in trouble so getting this thing set up for Linux you plug it in that's basically it even though this GPU is launching today it's rdna3 and rdna3 has been out for a while already and the support for this has already been baked into the Linux kernel so if you're running a relatively recent distro we're going to be using pop OS because pop OS rocks it's just going to work now the suggested end user pricing on this is 269 270 dollars less than 300 Nvidia is kind of checked out here they're looking around and they're saying well but we basically have a license to print money when it comes to Ai and machine learning they have not had well priced goods for gaming in a while or at least if you want to consider the AMD Parts competitive it depends on Technologies like the lss3 Linux users have always kind of been a second class citizen with Nvidia I mean they kind of have Linux support but the binary blobs and then software support and they are doing better in recent years but they've got to continue to do even more better meanwhile AMD is sort of the star of the show here when it comes to AMD support now scrappy little up and come or is Intel and AMD is facing a lot of competition from Intel at the lower end of the market which is where the RX 7600 is I mean it's a less than 300 gaming GPU it'll do about anything you want to do if you game at 1080P and about anything you want to do at 1440p as long as you don't need more than 60 FPS sustained or it'll do about 60 FPS give or take now when you're doing performance testing on Linux you got to remember sometimes things are weird Deus Ex mankind divided for example okay it's an older title but it illustrates my point perfectly there is a native Linux version the proton version which means that there's windows Shenanigans going on in the background actually works a lot better than the native Linux versions because no one's really done anything interesting with the native Linux version it seems for the last couple of years other games like do maternal well except for the the DRM kerfuffle there was that but then you can run the pirated version oh I didn't say that out loud performance on Linux is pretty good it's a 1080p card you can do 70 to 90 FPS it really depends on the title under Linux at 1080p 1440p is a little bit more doable just depends on the game for games that have really good native Linux support the performance parody is on par with Windows it's pretty good there are a few titles through the rare exceptions where Linux performs better than Windows a lot of the time that's either because the DRM is missing and broken or because Linux will have none of the DRM doing really weird things and it sandboxes it pretty well not that it makes the DRM ineffective I don't think that's true it just the operating system scheduler and some low-level Primitives handle that a lot better now if you're into doing things in Linux for vfio and pass through know that I've been struggling with rdna3 and pass through it is possible to get the cards to reset in some scenarios but mostly it's a non-starter for the uninitiated and I'm not really nailed down what the issue is I'm not sure if it's a platform issue or PCI issue or pcie5 issue or something that we can be you know we can overcome if we use CPU lanes for example rather than chipset lanes for now 6000 series gpus if you're going to use a vfio build or probably a safer option and yes this card is cheaper than a 6600 and performs better than a 6600 kind of a lot cheaper than a 6600 and it would be a better buy than a 6600 where not for the reset issue for vfio type scenarios so unless you plan to run this for a Windows Virtual Machine uh uh I don't think you're going to have any problems I think you're going to be delighted with the Linux experience it is almost out of the box so for pop OS I just did a base install now if you can install Ubuntu 223.04 that's going to work with nothing special 22.04 on pop OS doesn't quite have a new enough kernel to work with rdna3 and so it can hang because it says oh this is AMD GPU I understand this but it doesn't really understand it so you'll get a big black nothing or you'll get some text on the screen that says hey we're going to switch from frame buffer mode to AMD GPU and that's all it does all you got to do is set no mode set that'll install in a kind of Graphics compatibility mode and that's if you want to install pop OS as opposed to Ubuntu or something like that once you do that all you got to do is run the updates or let it run the updates for the operating system and then you let it reboot and then you don't have to set no mode set anymore if you're doing the fresh install you'll have to set no mode set twice once for the installer and then on the first reboot because you're missing the updates probably then you do it there so no mode set once for the installer and then no mode set once again on the reboot to let it get the updates because you'll get the updates and everything will be like 124 by 768 and you can't change the resolution and then you just run the updates and then that's all you got to do install Steam get signed in start downloading and playing games it is really incredible to me that that is the gaming experience analytics these days you could do all that through the GUI you don't have to touch the terminal at all that's how far we come with Linux gaming and you can play a lot of Windows games under Linux via steams you know proton layer which is pretty exciting so overall for less than three hundred dollars this seems like a win for gamers and enthusiasts and this perfectly reasonable not you know multi thousand dollar system here based around the new modern am5 platform with ddr5 running at six thousand but yeah this is a breathtakingly fast system in case you're wondering about noise and thermals on our Sapphire RX 7600 well this 7600 is about 25 to 35 more watts than the 6600 so it's going to run a little warmer and and even at full load the fans are basically inaudible in this case with the sides on now I'm cheating a little bit this is the Define case it's designed for sound proofing not being able to hear it even when the fans are moving at 1700 1800 RPM is kind of a function of the case if you had a more open air case you may be able to hear it depending on where the computer is in relation to where you're sitting but Sapphire is pretty good with these kinds of things and it's definitely better than the reference design in that respect you got a lot of options for really fun Linux support homogeneous 16 core CPUs and fun little builds like this I'm trying to get back into the groove of things I'm Wendell this is level one I'm signing out you can find me in the level one forums [Music]

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Length: 8min 4sec (484 seconds)

Published: Wed May 24 2023