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Since switching to AMD, I have found game crashes to basically be a thing of the past. It will happen once in a while, but much less than I was experiencing before. Just my experience, and one I'm grateful for.
On Linux, there are issues with C states on AMD chips so they are not getting a free pass either.
Not any more unless you are running Ubuntu 18.04.
To my understanding it's not fixed yet at least on kernel. I don't know exactly what causes it, but there have been multiple causes for it. The one I have is very rare, but causes a full lockup with no tty access. No matter the distro. The fix was to disable C6.
I am running a notebook with AMD 5300U and a desktop with 5900x and none has problems with sleep.
It could be a bios issue too, since not many have it. The only way to reproduce it consistently is to spike the CPU to full load and then remove the load. There are no logs, which make finding the issue even harder, but otherwise that fix works and I don't have enough knowledge to even tackle it.
My experience is similar now that you mention it. The only game that crashes on my AMD machine is Spider-Man 2 Brazil, but probably because it's a literal PS5 game that was hacked and slashed together to run natively on PC, a full year before the official port was scheduled to come out. So I don't blame it.
I picked a good time to switch to Team Red. It's my first AMD build ever, and after fixing a "failing SSD" issue simply by re-seating it, the PC's been running like a dream.