SUMMARY In HDR Mode, when refresh rate is changed from native 120 Hz to a lower refresh rate the color depth gets lowered too. When in 120 Hz the color depth looks the same as when running Windows (10 Bit). With 60 Hz it looks like 6 Bit color depth. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. HDR enabled and monitor set to native refresh rate 2. Lower refresh rate to something like 60 Hz OBSERVED RESULT Really bad color banding, looks like 6 Bit color depth. EXPECTED RESULT Same color depth as native refresh rate, in this case it should be 10 Bit SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: CachyOS Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.10.10-2-cachyos-lto (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Please attach the output of drm_info, once for each mode
Created attachment 173743 [details] drm_info 60 Hz
Created attachment 173744 [details] drm_info 120 Hz
There's no difference except for the refresh rate in the output configuration, so this is a driver bug. Please report it at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues