9070XT install

[Seimus]

Now that explains a lot of questions in my head, thanks!

yay -help
Usage:
paru
paru <operation> [...]
paru <package(s)>

[BES]

I got a 9070 this was my experience:
Garuda was booting but it wasn’t showing the GPU and games wouldn’t play so that was fixed with re-installing a bunch of stuff(basically throwing things at the wall until something stuck…lol).

Things I tried:

yay -S mesa-git  (this didn't really do anything)
yay -S xf86-video-amdgpu-git
yay -S lib32-mesa-git (also really didn't do anything)
yay -S vulkan-radeon-git (this threw an error message about it missing from the git)
yay -S lib32-vulkan-radeon-git  (this also didn't do anything)
yay -S linux-firmware-git

I restarted the PC, GPU still wasn’t working it just had some generic driver and missing other things like vulkan

So I did this:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/mesa-git.git
cd mesa-git
makepkg -si

And that seems to have resolved it, but the card shows up weird:
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics (discrete)
and in all the tabs in OpenGL and Vulkan and in game it shows up as “RADV GFX1201” but it works.

The right power limit and clocks all look good, runs games at 4k maxed even with RT enabled and frame gen and upscaling. Not being able to turn on FSR4 is my only gripe now…lol

I tried to force that with OptiScaler but nope …lol

[Seimus]

Optiscaler wont work currently with FSR4.
FSR3.1 works okay but for FSR4 most likely drivers or proton needs to add the support.

[isachan]

(https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2025.Q1.3-Released)

9070xt support just released.

[Seimus]

the 25.0.1 MESA driver is officially out

Arch Linux - mesa 1:25.0.1-2 (x86_64)

[Seimus]

Just tried it, working without problem

Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 48 [RX 9070/9070 XT]
vendor: XFX driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 5 speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: DP-3 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, Writeback-1
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:7550 class-ID: 0300

╰─λ pacman -Qs mesa
local/glu 9.0.3-2
Mesa OpenGL utility library

local/lib32-glu 9.0.3-2
Mesa OpenGL utility library (32 bits)

local/lib32-mesa 1:25.0.1-2
Open-source OpenGL drivers - 32-bit

local/lib32-mesa-demos 9.0.0-2
Mesa demos (32-bit)

local/lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers 1:25.0.1-2
Mesa's Vulkan layers - 32-bit

local/mesa 1:25.0.1-2
Open-source OpenGL drivers

local/mesa-demos 9.0.0-5
Mesa demos

local/mesa-utils 9.0.0-5
Essential Mesa utilities

local/vulkan-mesa-layers 1:25.0.1-2
Mesa's Vulkan layers

To finish this, nothing special needs to be done for Arch/Garuda to have the 9070’s working. The MESA drivers, kernel and firmware supports it now out of the box