How well do integrated AMD Radeon graphics work?

Hi @classycassy, you could search the HCL page for “Integrated Graphics (Radeon”.

There are 18 entries in total.The 2 positive laptop reports for R4.0 are:

When it comes to the question whether a specific laptop will work with Qubes OS, the only way to be sure is to have a positive report in the HCL for the specific configuration and release you are targeting. This is rare with Intel machines and even more rare with AMD machines. Our list of community-recommended laptops currently doesn’t have an AMD machine on it. That’s not because of any bias, but simply because there are no sufficient reports.

So if you are ready to take some risk and do some troubleshooting, you may look into a laptop that has Radeon Vega 3 or 8 in it. You haven’t mentioned how technical you are, so take this into consideration. Most importantly make sure that the CPU supports IOMMU!

My 2 cents: if you can afford it I’d recommend you get whatever AMD machine you’d like for your gaming and in addition get a used ThinkPad from eBay that is on the list of community-recommended laptops or has good HCL reports. For Qubes OS you are better off with an older machine anyway, since new hardware is typically not supported to well.

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