AMDGPU-PRO BETA 2 Driver Is Playing Nicely On Ubuntu 16.04 With The R9 Fury

[kamild1996]

A GPU driver that supports a grand total of 7 cards.

Truly, we are fourth class citizens.

There are people saying that GCN 1.1 cards (HD 7790, HD 8770, R7 260/260X, R9 290/290X, R9 295X2) are also working to some extent. Support for GCN 1.0 is coming soon though. That's still only a small portion of all the cards, but that's better than nothing...

[theriddick]

A GPU driver that supports a grand total of 7 cards.

Truly, we are fourth class citizens.

OFFICIALLY, unofficially you can try your luck. Seems the driver works on most GCN hardware, but with varying degree. Fortunate that my 390x is working good with this driver, once AMD add in Freesync support I'll be pretty happy.

[smitty3268]

A GPU driver that supports a grand total of 7 cards.

Truly, we are fourth class citizens.

By that logic, doesn't the fact that you get 2 drivers for those cards make you a 1st class citizen and everyone else 2nd?

Or is your entire post just complete nonsense?

[its-techs]

By that logic, doesn't the fact that you get 2 drivers for those cards make you a 1st class citizen and everyone else 2nd?

Or is your entire post just complete nonsense?

The latter. He needs some cheese with that whine.

[norsetto]

My card doesn't seem to be supported yet (R9 280X) but maybe I'll try installing it. But do I need to have a specific version of kernel? I'm running on XanMod right now.

How did it go? I also have an r9 280x.

[theriddick]

If I uninstall this AMDGPU-PRO driver it falls back to amdgpu, I have radeon driver blacklisted. I believe I had those framebuffer issues also without amdgpu setup correctly beforehand. Also I discovered the pro driver doesn't like Mutter, produces white screen for me (compton is fine).

[kamild1996]

How did it go? I also have an r9 280x.

I'll try that later today (in like an hour actually), then I'll let you know.

[bridgman]

Save your time; it's not going to work on a 280x yet.

[kamild1996]

Save your time; it's not going to work on a 280x yet.

I just finished installing it as you've sent this message. Sadly, you are right

kamil@KAMIL-PC-LINUX:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9, 256 bits)
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (3.0 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA))
OpenGL extensions:
kamil@KAMIL-PC-LINUX:~$ glxinfo | grep renderer
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9, 256 bits)

And the XOrg log in case if you're interested. I guess we got to wait for further GPU support...

[boltronics]

Please try to run any Feral game (Alien Isolation, Shadow of Mordor, Tomb Raider) with amdgpu-pro. Do they work?

Test setup: Radeon R9 285, Shadow of Mordor, medium settings, 2560x1440

Ubuntu 14.04.4 + fglrx:
Average FPS: 21.29
Max FPS: 84.26
Min FPS: 9.00

Ubuntu 16.04 + AMDGPU-Pro:
Average FPS: 43.30
Max FPS: 99.21
Min FPS: 19.96

These new drivers kick ass - with some games at least. Dying Light shows no significant performance improvement and remains completely unplayable at anything beyond 1366x768 with low detail.