The default powersaving mode is too aggressive for low GPU load games like Counter Strike etc. This makes the cores clock down way too fast. That behavior hasn’t been changed even though it’s been a known issue for 2 years . If you experience microstuttering with an RDNA2 (presumably RDNA3 too) card, try this udev rule:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1500#note_1854170 (The comment by user Myned).

I have set it to “5” (compute) which is the best setting in my experience. “1” (3D fullscreen) should work too. Sudo didn’t work for me, I needed to be logged in as root for this for some reason.

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Thanks for the hints about this https://www.reddit.com/user/Lawstorant/ :) Just wanted to give this fix more attention because it really really makes a difference

  • Longey@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used to have that problem on my Linux distribution. The stuttering. I looked around the web, and the results that fixed my problem was to disable AMD’s fTPM.

    But as of recent, I have not experienced any stuttering, and I didn’t need to disable fTPM, so I keep it enabled! I think it is because I updated my motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI firmware which fixed some fTPM issues. (Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite non-wifi version)

    Another thing to note is that AMD’s fTPM stuttering issue was also exhibited even on Windows 10/11.

    https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-410

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    Just throwing my 2 cents in! I hope it helps!