Poor amdgpu performance after switching from Nvidia

I just switched from an Nvidia 1080 to a AMD 6700XT. I followed the steps from another thread:

sudo mhwd -li 
sudo mhwd -r pci < video-nvidia version > 
sudo mhwd -i pci video-linux

I was able to boot without issue following this and did not notice any issues until I tried to run a few games and start SteamVR. Framerates are abysmal and rendering in SteamVR is corrupted.

I tried reinstalling video-linux and also installing video-modesetting with no luck. Is there something obvious I am missing?

System information:

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.6-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17-x86_64
    root=UUID=d828856e-9d20-4056-af07-8971cece8fe2 rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B450 AORUS M v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450 AORUS M v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: F32 date: 05/06/2019
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M570 serial: <filter> charge: 35%
    rechargeable: yes status: discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.63 GiB used: 4.74 GiB (30.3%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
    family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 1 stepping: 1 microcode: 0x8001137
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 768 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x64 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
    L3: 16 MiB desc: 2x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3125 high: 3755 min/max: 2200/3750 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2232 2: 3743
    3: 3755 4: 3742 5: 3714 6: 1934 7: 1870 8: 3743 9: 2463 10: 3027 11: 3743
    12: 3743 13: 3637 14: 1870 15: 3057 16: 3742 bogomips: 119812
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid
    cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
    fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm
    mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
    nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
    pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
    pse36 rapl rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sev sha_ni skinit smap smca
    sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 succor svm svm_lock
    syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme
    vmmcall wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2
    mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M]
    vendor: Tul / PowerColor driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-3 off: HDMI-A-1
    empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: HTC (High Tech ) Vive type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 3-1.1.2:18 chip-ID: 0bb4:2c87 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3440x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 910x381mm (35.83x15.00")
    s-diag: 987mm (38.84")
  Monitor-1: DisplayPort-2 res: 3440x1440 dpi: 110
    size: 797x334mm (31.38x13.15") diag: 864mm (34.02") modes: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (navy_flounder LLVM 13.0.1 DRM
    3.44 5.17.6-1-MANJARO)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.3
    chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: C-Media USB Audio Device type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-1.1.4:19
    chip-ID: 0d8c:0012 class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.6-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8168 v: 8.049.02-NAPI modules: r8169 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: secondary dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2526 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter type: USB driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-9:4 chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci1 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
  Report-ID: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: N/A
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.66 TiB used: 1.61 TiB (44.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW010T8
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 002C temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD20EFRX-68EUZN0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0A80 scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 30 GiB size: 29.36 GiB (97.87%) used: 26.17 GiB (89.1%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
    uuid: d828856e-9d20-4056-af07-8971cece8fe2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 98.4 MiB (98.45%)
    used: 4 MiB (4.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A
    uuid: 65BA-7C7F
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 915.77 GiB size: 900.32 GiB (98.31%)
    used: 435.19 GiB (48.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
    label: N/A uuid: 83dcec76-c74f-42e6-92d5-599b00352e66
  ID-4: /home/<filter>/HDD raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%)
    used: 1.16 TiB (63.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
    uuid: 00678e9e-bdc7-4013-86fb-cde36ae1aa80
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:4 label: N/A
    uuid: c7aba4d6-482a-4974-917a-a793f019b262
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 931.51 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
    uuid: 53a9419e-7647-4b72-9652-6577e2ce1290
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-5:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 1-6:3 info: Corsair Gaming KATAR Mouse type: Mouse,HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 300mA chip-ID: 1b1c:1b22 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 1-9:4 info: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter
    type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 3-1:2 info: HTC (High Tech ) Vive Hub (HTC CB USB2) ports: 3
    rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 0bb4:2744 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 3-1.1:13 info: HTC (High Tech ) Vive Hub (SMSC USB2137B) ports: 7
    rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 0bb4:2134 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-1.1.1:17 info: Valve Lighthouse FPGA RX type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 28de:2000 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 3-1.1.2:18 info: HTC (High Tech ) Vive type: Video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
    chip-ID: 0bb4:2c87 class-ID: 0e02
  Device-3: 3-1.1.4:19 info: C-Media USB Audio Device type: Audio,HID
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0d8c:0012 class-ID: 0300
  Device-4: 3-1.1.5:14 info: HTC (High Tech ) Vive type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bb4:2c87 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-5: 3-1.1.6:15 info: Valve Watchman Dongle type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 20mA
    chip-ID: 28de:2101 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-6: 3-1.1.7:16 info: Valve Watchman Dongle type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 20mA
    chip-ID: 28de:2101 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-7: 3-1.2:5
    info: HTC (High Tech ) Vive Hub Bluetooth 4.1 (Broadcom BCM920703) type: Hub
    driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0bb4:0306
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Device-8: 3-1.3:7 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) HTC Hub Controller
    type: Abstract (modem),CDC-Data driver: cdc_acm interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 0424:274d class-ID: 0a00
  Device-9: 3-2:3 info: PFU HHKB-Classic type: Keyboard,HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 04fe:0020 class-ID: 0300
  Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 56.0 C
    mem: 60.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
  Processes: 429 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 3 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1585 pacman: 1577 lib: 457
  flatpak: 0 snap: 8 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.15

> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI

can you remove videdo-modesetting ?

Removed video-modestting, no improvement.

provide info from:
find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"
journalctl --boot=0 --priority=3 --no-pager

So all that is in the X11 is a keyboard configuration file that I made for…something.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

No xorg.conf however, I had to mess with that to fix screen tearing on the old card.

Journalctl excerpt:

May 15 21:11:24 beanbowl kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x1001 tx timeout
May 15 21:11:32 beanbowl nmbd[1355]: [2022/05/15 21:11:32.131654,  0] ../../source3/nmbd/nmbd.c:901(main)
May 15 21:11:32 beanbowl nmbd[1355]:   nmbd version 4.16.1 started.
May 15 21:11:32 beanbowl nmbd[1355]:   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2022
May 15 21:11:32 beanbowl smbd[1369]: [2022/05/15 21:11:32.191643,  0] ../../source3/smbd/server.c:1741(main)
May 15 21:11:32 beanbowl smbd[1369]:   smbd version 4.16.1 started.
May 15 21:11:32 beanbowl smbd[1369]:   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2022
May 15 21:11:32 beanbowl kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Reading local version info failed (-110)
May 15 21:11:44 beanbowl lightdm[1564]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
May 15 21:11:46 beanbowl colord-sane[1801]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
May 15 21:11:47 beanbowl kernel: hub 3-1.1:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
May 15 21:11:47 beanbowl kernel: hub 3-1.1:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
May 15 21:11:48 beanbowl colord-sane[2077]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
May 15 21:11:48 beanbowl kernel: usb 3-1.1.4: cannot submit urb (err = -19)
May 15 21:11:48 beanbowl kernel: usb 3-1.1.4: Unable to submit urb #1: -19 at snd_usb_queue_pending_output_urbs
May 15 21:11:48 beanbowl kernel: usb 3-1.1.4: cannot submit urb 0, error -19: no device
May 15 21:11:48 beanbowl kernel: usb 3-1.1.4: cannot submit urb 0, error -19: no device
May 15 21:11:48 beanbowl kernel: usb 3-1.1.4: 1:0: usb_set_interface failed (-19)
May 15 21:11:48 beanbowl colord-sane[2089]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
May 15 21:11:49 beanbowl colord-sane[2141]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
May 15 21:11:50 beanbowl colord-sane[2214]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]: [2022/05/15 21:11:55.170851,  0] ../../source3/nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:398(become_local_master_stage2)
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]:   *****
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]: 
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]:   Samba name server BEANBOWL is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.0.4
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]: 
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]:   *****
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]: [2022/05/15 21:11:55.171061,  0] ../../source3/nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:398(become_local_master_stage2)
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]:   *****
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]: 
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]:   Samba name server BEANBOWL is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.0.146
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]: 
May 15 21:11:55 beanbowl nmbd[1355]:   *****
May 15 21:11:59 beanbowl colord-sane[2831]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1

do you use raiser cable?

Nope, plugged straight into the board.

OS reinstall with a wipe of / (not /home) solved this issue. I am reluctant to mark this as a solution but my problem is nonetheless solved.

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