I've found the amdgpu Linux driver to be fairly buggy running dual monitors with my Radeon VII, and found things like the fTPM to be highly buggy on Threadripper 2k/x399 to the point that I had to add a dTPM. They never got things truly working properly with those more-niche products before they just.. kind of... stopped working on them. And of course ROCm is widely regarded to be a mess.

On the other hand, my Steam Deck has been exceedingly stable.

So I guess I would say: Buy AMD but understand that they don't have the resources to truly support all of their hardware on any platform, so they have to prioritize.

I seem to recall the Vega era as 'when I wouldn't buy a GPU because AMDs were just unstable' (and of course never closed source Nvidia).

Took me almost 5 min to drill through enough Wikipedia pages to find the Radeon VII string.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_Vega_series

Contrast that with the earlier R9 285 that I used for nearly 10 years until I was finally able to get a 9070XT that I'm very happy with. They were still refining support for that aged GCN 1.2 driver even today, even if things are a lower priority to backport.

Overall the ONLY things I'm unhappy about this GPU generation.

* Too damned expensive * Not enough VRAM (and no ECC off of workstation cards?) * Too hard for average consumers to just buy direct and cut out the scalpers

The only way I could get my hands on a card was to buy through a friend that lives within range of a Microcenter. The only true saints of computer hardware in the whole USA.