Cannot use Vulkan with a XFX R7970 GHOST | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

I have triple checked everything, and everything seems to be properly installed?

$ lspci -k -d ::03xx
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
    Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 3212
    Kernel driver in use: radeon
    Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu

$ pacman -Qe | grep amd
amd-vulkan-prefixes 2-1
amdgpu_top 0.10.4-1
amdvlk 2025.Q1.3-1
lib32-amdvlk 2025.Q1.3-1
xf86-video-amdgpu 23.0.0-2

$ pacman -Qe | grep vulkan
amd-vulkan-prefixes 2-1
lib32-vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.309.0-1
lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers 1:25.0.4-1
lib32-vulkan-radeon 1:25.0.4-1
vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.309.0-1
vulkan-mesa-layers 1:25.0.4-1
vulkan-radeon 1:25.0.4-1

$ uname -a
Linux dedf1sh 6.12.25-1-lts #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:36:32 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have attempted to force 'amdgpu' to be the main one(by changing the modules order on mkinitcpio.conf), but:

It doesn't load Vulkan at all
If I plug the HDMI in, GFX_MCLK pegs to 100% constantly, and the fans goes to full throttle until the entire system crashes (GPU overheating?)

#Cannot use Vulkan with a XFX R7970 GHOST