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Hecubah

AMD 9070 XT on bazzite vs windows (Blender)

HI, I recently upgraded from W10 to Bazzite and I have to say that the GPU driver is really good for this GPU. In Windows I had Blender crash quite often, for example when changing the 3d viewport from material preview (EEVEE) to rendered (Cycles) it would crash often, especially if I changed back and forth fast. It would also crash randomly when I had been working on a single .blend file for a long time, and sometimes the entire driver would crash and I was left with a black screen and had to restart the entire PC. I've been using Bazzite for a few weeks now and I've had 0 crashes or lag. Pretty amazing honestly. I'm sad that I didn't do any Blender render benchmarks, I'm sure that it's rendering faster too now.

As an aside I only installed Bazzite because it was the only distro that worked out of the box for this graphics card. I tried to install Ubuntu, Mint and Debian and they all just refused to install or the desktop environment wouldn't work at all. No regrets at all so far!

Posted Jan 27, 2026, 1:52 PM UTC

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