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AMD are doing something pretty amazing, they will be doing a reddit AMA with the chance of anyone who comments to win one of fourteen of their brand new RX 480 graphics cards.

I think this is a really fun thing of AMD to do, and hopefully at least one Linux user will win a card. I might even enter myself, as it would be awesome to be able to test an AMD card for reports right here on GOL.

When?
Wednesday the 29th of June beginning at 11AM Eastern Time (15:00 UTC).

Find out more here.

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14 comments

herycp Jun 27, 2016
how about catalyst driver???

any development??

suport for xorg 1.8???
for pre-gcn its no hope for amdgpu and vulkan??


Last edited by herycp on 27 June 2016 at 7:11 pm UTC
Shmerl Jun 27, 2016
Nice. I'll try to participate. Currently Mesa and amgdpu seem to be not ready for RX 480 support in Debian testing. I wonder if they'll get in shape soon. Building mesa from source or figuring out how to make dkms module for amdgpu might be fun, but it's not something I particularly want to spend time on and would prefer a ready solution for it.


Last edited by Shmerl on 27 June 2016 at 7:36 pm UTC
Shmerl Jun 27, 2016
how about catalyst driver???

any development??

suport for xorg 1.8???
for pre-gcn its no hope for amdgpu and vulkan??

Catalyst is dead. The future is amdgpu + radeonsi.
Creak Jun 27, 2016
Nice. I'll try to participate. Currently Mesa and amgdpu seem to be not ready for RX 480 support in Debian testing. I wonder if they'll get in shape soon. Building mesa from source or figuring out how to make dkms module for amdgpu might be fun, but it's not something I particularly want to spend time on and would prefer a ready solution for it.
I'm also waiting for Fedora to be ready before buying my RX 480. But since Linux 4.7 is needed and it's not yet released, and also that Fedora keeps a buffer of 1 kernel version, I'd say that the 4.7 kernel will be available on Fedora around mid-October/November (2016).

That's a long waiting time :(

And that's just for Fedora, which is pretty quick to adopt new kernel releases. I don't think Debian is as quick to adopt new kernel releases.

Edit:
Would be nice if AMD could take that delay into consideration for their next cards, so that we don't have to wait six months between the possibility to buy the card and the possibility to use it (simply).


Last edited by Creak on 27 June 2016 at 8:40 pm UTC
Shmerl Jun 27, 2016
@Creak: As I said above, solution for delayed kernels is using dkms module. Linux supports it for a long time already. The problem is - if there is no ready dkms package for amdgpu, creating one yourself is a tedious task. AMD are using something like that in their ADMDGPU-PRO package for closed OpenGL, but I'd prefer a standalone dkms package that can be combined with messa package and the rest of the open stack.


Last edited by Shmerl on 27 June 2016 at 8:51 pm UTC
ElectricPrism Jun 27, 2016
Currently Mesa and amgdpu seem to be not ready for RX 480 support in Debian testing. I wonder if they'll get in shape soon. Building mesa from source or figuring out how to make dkms module for amdgpu might be fun, but it's not something I particularly want to spend time on and would prefer a ready solution for it.

Any RX 480 owner on Arch can simply install MESA GIT from their CLI like so:
yaourt -S mesa-git lib32-mesa-git

I would be surprised if 7 days elapsed and Arch users didn't create a cusom AUR PKGBUILD specifically including the AMD Patches.

Arch Users are notorious for having the newest shit the quickest out of anyone.

Alls a person will have to do is run the modified kernel for about a month until the patches enter mainline and are common.

Ive used mesa-git, as well as mesa-vulkan-intel-git and I can't remember any problems running from GIT.

AMD may be creating the solution of "not breaking X11" that Ubuntu tried to create by having "Mir Display Server" directly inhouse.

I hope Phoronix test results are as exciting as they're hyping up.
WienerWuerstel Jun 27, 2016
[quote=ElectricPrism]
I hope Phoronix test results are as exciting as they're hyping up.

Don't get your hopes up too much. Michael "hyping it up" is just to generate more clicks and more clicks mean more money for his site and more beer for him to drink ;).

I'm still cautiously optimistic but I'm not expecting too much to not get disappointed when the benchmark results are finally here.
Creak Jun 27, 2016
I'm still cautiously optimistic but I'm not expecting too much to not get disappointed when the benchmark results are finally here.
Anyhow, the card is only 200 bucks!! :D
WienerWuerstel Jun 27, 2016
I'm still cautiously optimistic but I'm not expecting too much to not get disappointed when the benchmark results are finally here.
Anyhow, the card is only 200 bucks!! :D

Don't count on that. Europeans are also going to have to pay more (especially for the 8GB version) which will hopefully not diminish the price/performance ratio too much.

Only 1-2 day(s) left and we will finally get all the answers to our questions... regarding the RX 480 at least ;)
PublicNuisance Jun 28, 2016
Awesome I have that day off work. I've already entered in Powercolor's free giveaway so may as well try this as well.
oldrocker99 Jun 28, 2016
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In my message, I asked about the drivers ;) and mentioned that I'd love to see AMD-ATI be more competitive in the Linux world. (a tiny fib, I suppose)




Last edited by oldrocker99 on 28 June 2016 at 2:38 pm UTC
Xaero_Vincent Jun 28, 2016
My guess is that the RX 480 will perform like a GTX 970 on Windows and a GTX 960 on Linux.
tuubi Jun 28, 2016
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My guess is that the RX 480 will perform like a GTX 970 on Windows and a GTX 960 on Linux.
A ~200 USD AMD gpu on par with a similarly priced GTX 960 on Linux? That would mean they'd be pretty close in price/performance. A big Windows/Linux performance gap would be regrettable, but basically irrelevant.
pd12 Jun 29, 2016
Feel free to upvote my comment to get questions answered. =)
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4qfy9d/i_work_at_amd_the_time_has_come_to_ama_about/d4sn1rc

EDIT: Questions got answered even with only 2 points! =D Here's a link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4qfy9d/i_work_at_amd_the_time_has_come_to_ama_about/d4sz4mx?context=3


Last edited by pd12 on 11 July 2016 at 1:10 pm UTC
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