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Let's talk amdgpu - sulami - 24-11-2015
AMD just released 1.0 of amdgpu, their new official open-source driver that (I guess) will replace radeon and catalyst in the future. I made a roundup of supported cards from the chip-ids in the driver itself and the developer reference by AMD.
Card List
Official source tree is over here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/
I personally think this is pretty great and makes Linux overall more viable for general use. I think SteamOS might have played a role in the decision to take this step, and it might just pay off.
I myself do not use an AMD GPU right now on my main machine, but have a 5870 in my Steam Machine that might get replaced in the future, and the way things are currently going, probably with either a Pirate or Arctic Islands card.
So, general thoughts and opinions on the topic?
EDIT: Added the more recently added supported chiptypes, link to official repo
RE: Let's talk amdgpu - Wildefyr - 25-11-2015
After I've had both AMD and Nvidia cards to use on linux. Nvidia is 100% the way if you want absolutely no hassle (despite my avatar). However, I will probably buy an AMD card after my 970 eventually becomes obsolete in a couple of years for linux support. The amd opensource stack is constantly improving and vulcan is 'looking' very promising but is gonna take another year or two to really get into the market.
RE: Let's talk amdgpu - strang3quark - 25-11-2015
AMD on linux simply sucks.
The OpenSource driver stopped working for me (I have no idea why):
Code:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1581062The Proprietary driver simply does not work (Which is strange because it works on my desktop but it doesn't on my laptop).
RE: Let's talk amdgpu - venam - 25-11-2015
This is amazing news!
My new laptop has a 7700 series and kept giving me issues.
I'll download the driver and give it a shot.
EDIT: can you link us to the download page?
RE: Let's talk amdgpu - sulami - 25-11-2015
I personally did not have too many problems with my 5870 and radeon (the OSS one), my only problem is that fan control seems to not exist, so the card defaults to 35%-40% which is already pretty noisy.
(25-11-2015, 07:41 AM)venam Wrote: EDIT: can you link us to the download page?
Sources are over here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/