Radeon RX 6700 XT "Navy Flounder" Microcode Lands In Linux-Firmware.Git

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon RX 6700 XT "Navy Flounder" Microcode Lands In Linux-Firmware.Git

Following last week's release of the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card and Radeon Software for Linux 20.50, the new "Navy Flounder" microcode required for this GPU to function with the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver stack has been published...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-RX-6700XT-Firmware

[ThoreauHD]

Unicorn drivers. That's fun. They picked the right code name.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=6700+xt&N=100007709&isdeptsrh=1

https://www.pcmag.com/news/amds-radeon-rx-6700-xt-launch-out-of-stock-absurdly-high-prices

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Unicorn drivers. That's fun. They picked the right code name.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=6700+xt&N=100007709&isdeptsrh=1

https://www.pcmag.com/news/amds-radeon-rx-6700-xt-launch-out-of-stock-absurdly-high-prices

I was looking on eBay the other day for a 5700 XT. My favorite listing was for a used 5700 XT with a $1,500 starting bid and a $2,000 buy-it-now price. Building a new system is just a dumpster fire right now.

• GPUs are all being bought by miners/scalpers
• AMD isn't selling their APUs directly to consumers
• If you can find a Zen 3 AMD APU it is still Vega based
• Intel finally has good integrated graphics with Xe but the beefy 96 EU versions are limited to quad core laptop parts (an updated i5-10600 with a 96 EU Xe iGPU would be interesting if they weren't still totally failing on the fab side and could make it happen)

[mos87]

would be even better if you could buy one dare i say it at a reasonable price

[Guest]

Ah, the usual shit support from AMD. Business as usual.

[SteveWi]

I managed to get my hands on a 6700XT, but I seem to be suffering from a corruption bug with OpenGL when using the Navy Flounder firmware and mesa 20.3.4 or mesa-git. Still haven't figured out if it's a firmware/mesa/card problem.