I noticed that with Mint 21 Cinnamon, the performance of my RX 6650 XT tanked e.g. in the Unigine benchmark, both in the live ISO and after a 20.3->21 upgrade via the mintupgrade tool. In Mint 20.3 also with kernel 5.15, I get 98 avg FPS in 1080p-high while that drops to 23 FPS in Mint 21. After getting the firmware directly from Git with...
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git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
cd linux-firmware
sudo make install
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all
linux-firmware package version with the problem: 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.3
System data:
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System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-43-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.9 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: Mutter vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4801
date: 03/02/2022
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB
L3: 16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2392 high: 2689 min/max: 400/4673 boost: enabled cores:
1: 2689 2: 2374 3: 2373 4: 2372 5: 2372 6: 2372 7: 2373 8: 2373 9: 2373
10: 2371 11: 2375 12: 2373 13: 2374 14: 2374 15: 2374 16: 2373
bogomips: 121595
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6650 XT] vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu
v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-3
empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ef
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1200 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x317mm (20.0x12.5")
s-diag: 599mm (23.6")
Monitor-1: DisplayPort-2 mapped: DP-3 model: LG (GoldStar) 25BL56WY
serial: <filter> res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 90 size: 540x340mm (21.3x13.4")
diag: 633mm (24.9") modes: max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480
OpenGL:
renderer: AMD DIMGREY_CAVEFISH (LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 3.42 5.15.0-43-generic)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 21 HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT]
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-43-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 445.66 GiB (23.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO M.2 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 93.31 GiB used: 25.49 GiB (27.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot size: 1.37 GiB used: 249.9 MiB (17.8%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 523 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /home size: 1.7 TiB used: 419.93 GiB (24.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda4
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
mem: 38.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Repos:
Packages: apt: 3098
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list
1: deb https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/linuxmint vanessa main upstream import backport
2: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Processes: 381 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 0 Memory: 30.73 GiB
used: 2.13 GiB (6.9%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11/9 clang: 14.0.0-1ubuntu1 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13