Originally posted by eydee
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Latest On AMD Crimson For Linux: Supports 4.x Kernels, Drops Pre-GCN GPUs
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That's a little odd. I can seem to find a beta "Crimson" driver for pre-GCN at Windows ( http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-arti...tion-Beta.aspx ) and for Linux it lists the older GPU series, too http://support.amd.com/en-us/downloa...s=Linux+x86_64
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Originally posted by dungeon View PostThis is nothing new but expected ~3 year dropping cadence, same happened in year 2006, 2009., 2012. and now in 2015.
That said, expect GCN 1.0/1.1 drop in 2018.
Every fing gcn gpu has a great proportion of its functionality either as released oss code or as released documentation.
Those GPUs are bound to have support FOREVER.
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Originally posted by eydee View Post
Unfortunately xorg being broken for DVI displays for ages, there is no way to generate a xorg.conf file and disabling vsync on these cards, when you're using open source drivers. That means drastically decreased performance.
Dropping Catalyst support would be fine, if it was feature complete, but it (once again) never reached that stage, only for windows. Dropping windows support is fine, as the card can do everything it is capable of and can run everything it is capable of, at maximum possible performance. Linux performance on the other hand is still stuck somewhere around 50-70% and would require a bunch of work.
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I can't build crimson on my dual gpu laptop with an NI and an GCN GPU "HD 8650G/8670M".
If i choose HD 8000M on AMD homepage it let's me download crimson driver but it can't be installed.
Log shows "./amd_dcm64: No supported adapters detected".
About R600 and OpenGL 4 it seems like dave is getting closer with tesselation and he started to send patches to mesa preparing for tesselation so i guess it's getting closer.
There also seems to be much work getting done in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied.../?h=r600g-tess
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Originally posted by Serafean View Post
And mesa is still supporting r200 (released in 2001) cards and newer, with at least with r300g (for cards from 2003 - 2007) providing more features than catalyst ever did.
Two can play at this game...
What game you playin'?
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Originally posted by Yorgos View Postthen there is something that the nvidiots do not want to expose.
Every fing gcn gpu has a great proportion of its functionality either as released oss code or as released documentation.
Those GPUs are bound to have support FOREVER.
I agree AMD opensource drivers are somehow part of that legacy support programmeLast edited by dungeon; 24 November 2015, 01:01 PM.
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