Getting Occasional Graphical Bugs / Artifacting After Switching to AMD

[glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew)]

I don’t know if it might be related, but someone else recently posted that kernel versions greater than 6.10.9 were exhibiting amdgpu driver problems on their system.

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There have been other reports of kworker soaking up CPU time and causing the system to feel like it’s running at ~1 frames/second. The other reports seem to tie to the amdgpu drivers, including Fedora and Arch Linux. In the case for Fedora, I had downgraded to 6.10.9 and that seemed to have mitigated the issue. I have upgraded to 6.10.13 from updates-testing since there are other fixes for the amdgpu driver. Interesting that it’s happening with Intel integrated graphics here…

Can you boot to a kernel version less than or equal to 6.10.9 and test if that resolves the problem you are seeing?