Update, September 12, 2023: An AMD representative has been in touch to assure us that it is aware of the bug, but unfortunately doesn’t have any update about whether we might see a patch incoming, or even whether the driver team has a fix in mind.
What they did also note was that it is reportedly not just AMD RX 6000 and RX 7000-series cards that are having the no-sun issue, as reportedly cards older than the RTX 20-series are also anecdotally suffering from the same problem.
I have not been able to confirm this myself, but some readers have suggested that their GTX 1080 Ti and GTX 980 are feeling the Bill Withers Ain’t No Sunshine vibe, too. Those are older cards, to be fair, but were also the top GPUs of their generations and I would bet there are still a fair few in service out there.
It’s going to be interesting to see what the issue at play is here, because it seems that older AMD cards, such as the venerable RX 5700 XT, are doing fine (in relative terms, performance won’t be great) while Nvidia’s older GPUs are suffering. But the inverse is true for newer graphics cards.
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