AMD have released another Beta of their new AMD GPU-PRO. It brings in support for the new Vulkan API in Dota 2 which is expected to release this coming week.
What's included?
- OpenGL 4.5 and GLX 1.4
- OpenCL 1.2
- Vulkan 1.0
- VDPAU
- DOTA 2 Game support (Vulkan™ enabled)
- Basic display features
- Basic power management features
- KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) and ADF (Atomic Display Framework) support
- GPL compliant kernel module
- Install script and Debian packages for Ubuntu 16.04
Supported cards
R9 Fury X
R9 Fury
R9 Nano
R9 M395X
R9 380X
R9 380
R9 285
Hopefully they will gradually introduce support for more cards, as that's quite a limited selection right now. Still, Vulkan is young and not many games support it yet so they can actually afford to take a little time with it to get it right.
Find out more on the official AMD page here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
What's included?
- OpenGL 4.5 and GLX 1.4
- OpenCL 1.2
- Vulkan 1.0
- VDPAU
- DOTA 2 Game support (Vulkan™ enabled)
- Basic display features
- Basic power management features
- KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) and ADF (Atomic Display Framework) support
- GPL compliant kernel module
- Install script and Debian packages for Ubuntu 16.04
Supported cards
R9 Fury X
R9 Fury
R9 Nano
R9 M395X
R9 380X
R9 380
R9 285
Hopefully they will gradually introduce support for more cards, as that's quite a limited selection right now. Still, Vulkan is young and not many games support it yet so they can actually afford to take a little time with it to get it right.
Find out more on the official AMD page here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Well I have a HD7970 in my tower at home, so hopefully they will support that card in the future (I mostly use my laptop (Nvidia) right now).
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Quoting: z3ntuWell I have a HD7970 in my tower at home, so hopefully they will support that card in the future (I mostly use my laptop (Nvidia) right now).I think it's likely such an old card will need to use the open source driver.
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tuxintuxedo May 22, 2016
Quoting: z3ntuWell I have a HD7970 in my tower at home, so hopefully they will support that card in the future (I mostly use my laptop (Nvidia) right now).This new closed driver needs the open amdgpu on the kernel side. For GCN 1.0, there is only experimental support not enabled by default in amdgpu. Even GCN 1.1 support is still experimental, while it's in a much better condition. So yes, there will be support eventually, at least it seems so. But you will have to wait for it patiently.
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Quoting: liamdaweIt's GCN 1.0 so it's not yet supported, but should eventually be. The OSS amdgpu support for 1.0 was merged only a few days ago, anyway. Besides the driver is still in beta and they only provide packages for a single Ubuntu release. All that should get fixed in time for the official release. Hopefully sooner than laterQuoting: z3ntuWell I have a HD7970 in my tower at home, so hopefully they will support that card in the future (I mostly use my laptop (Nvidia) right now).I think it's likely such an old card will need to use the open source driver.
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Yeah will be good to see it in a stable state with wider support, exciting for AMD users.
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tuxintuxedo May 22, 2016
Quoting: GuestSource code not provided, of course (and shame on AMD for that).AMDGPU-PRO is closed source and will be. Don't understand what you meant by this.
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TheRiddick May 22, 2016
The supported cards are in fact TESTED, AMD have a wording problem there.
The driver has been tested on 390 cards and 7700 HD cards already, so it works on MANY others. AMD just can't be fcked testing them.
The driver has been tested on 390 cards and 7700 HD cards already, so it works on MANY others. AMD just can't be fcked testing them.
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Am not sure whats more annoying , Lack of 290(cgn 1.1) support or the lack of the standard .sh LINUX installer 
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boltronics May 23, 2016
*Loving* the speed increases with AMDGPU-Pro over fglrx (now that I've got it working properly. Games like Shadow of Mordor went from an unplayable average of ~20FPS at 1440 (medium detail) to a pleasant ~40FPS on my R9 285. Very happy with how things have worked out. I knew AMD was working on this which is why I went for a cheaper 285 over a 290, but it feels like it's taken forever to get here.
Well technically it's still Beta. I hate that when you go to Drivers+Support on the AMD website, it lists "Latest AMD Radeon Drivers" and there's no GNU/Linux option. You have to click "Other" - and even then the new Beta drivers aren't listed. I had to find them via a web search. Makes sense that they would be ashamed to add fglrx as a prominent download option (which haven't received an update all year), but these new AMDGPU-Pro drivers rock. AMD, you don't need to hide the GNU/Linux downloads behind "Other" now. Be proud of the new drivers! lol.
Still no Crossfire support though, and some games showed no performance increase at all, such as Dying Light which still runs at a horrible ~20FPS or less at 1440... my GTX660M on my old laptop gets better... but we're getting there! Been playing Shadow of Mordor all weekend (which I bought ages ago) because I can only just now run it properly. :)
Also, what pete910 says. The installer absolutely sucks. Better to just use gdebi *.deb, and then you don't need to worry about it installing unpackaged files such as the uninstall script, putting unnecessary stuff under /var/opt, adding a useless /etc/apt/sources.d/amdgpu.list file (which messes with apt-get/aptitude because it's pointing to an untrusted source), etc. I can't understand why they put it together that way.
Last edited by boltronics on 23 May 2016 at 8:12 am UTC
Well technically it's still Beta. I hate that when you go to Drivers+Support on the AMD website, it lists "Latest AMD Radeon Drivers" and there's no GNU/Linux option. You have to click "Other" - and even then the new Beta drivers aren't listed. I had to find them via a web search. Makes sense that they would be ashamed to add fglrx as a prominent download option (which haven't received an update all year), but these new AMDGPU-Pro drivers rock. AMD, you don't need to hide the GNU/Linux downloads behind "Other" now. Be proud of the new drivers! lol.
Still no Crossfire support though, and some games showed no performance increase at all, such as Dying Light which still runs at a horrible ~20FPS or less at 1440... my GTX660M on my old laptop gets better... but we're getting there! Been playing Shadow of Mordor all weekend (which I bought ages ago) because I can only just now run it properly. :)
Also, what pete910 says. The installer absolutely sucks. Better to just use gdebi *.deb, and then you don't need to worry about it installing unpackaged files such as the uninstall script, putting unnecessary stuff under /var/opt, adding a useless /etc/apt/sources.d/amdgpu.list file (which messes with apt-get/aptitude because it's pointing to an untrusted source), etc. I can't understand why they put it together that way.
Last edited by boltronics on 23 May 2016 at 8:12 am UTC
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Very nice. I have the feeling my PC won't do it until christmas, starting to have issues (it's 5 years old). I hope they will provide this driver for more cards in future, but my guess is they'll just let the old drivers time out and implement the PRO for new cards.
Though, there actually are cards already supported which fit my budget, that's nice already. I'll have to check on benchmarks on the driver first.
Because of the gpl complient kernel module - what's actually the architecture of the new AMD-Driver? I couldn't find any reference to this...
Last edited by STiAT on 23 May 2016 at 7:06 am UTC
Though, there actually are cards already supported which fit my budget, that's nice already. I'll have to check on benchmarks on the driver first.
Because of the gpl complient kernel module - what's actually the architecture of the new AMD-Driver? I couldn't find any reference to this...
Last edited by STiAT on 23 May 2016 at 7:06 am UTC
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