whitecat AMD can be pretty stupid when it comes to Linux, but their Windows driver is light-years ahead.
They now have radeon, amdgpu, and AMDGPU-PRO on Linux.
Radeon is "meh" for some games, for others it's total crap;
amdgpu was going in the right direction but now they've screwed mouse cursor for SI users;
and AMDGPU-PRO seems just like the ancient Catalyst OGL/OCL with the amdgpu Kernel driver, except AMDGPU-PRO for SI users is broken: CSGO has black artifacts and a black dome in the sky; X-Plane crawls if you enable clouds (which doesn't happen on amdgpu+radeonSI or the Windows driver); I can't patch xorg-server to make my mouse wheel work on Counter Strike; and OpenCL is completely broken: not only it detects my card as a HD 8000 series and codename "Hainan" (which it's not, it's a Pitcairn R9 270X), but it says my OpenCL device has 32 KB of memory and a clock of 555 MHz instead of 1070.
All of this just makes me wanna say a big "fuck you" to AMD on Linux and go to Windows where the drivers are actually good.
They now have radeon, amdgpu, and AMDGPU-PRO on Linux.
Radeon is "meh" for some games, for others it's total crap;
amdgpu was going in the right direction but now they've screwed mouse cursor for SI users;
and AMDGPU-PRO seems just like the ancient Catalyst OGL/OCL with the amdgpu Kernel driver, except AMDGPU-PRO for SI users is broken: CSGO has black artifacts and a black dome in the sky; X-Plane crawls if you enable clouds (which doesn't happen on amdgpu+radeonSI or the Windows driver); I can't patch xorg-server to make my mouse wheel work on Counter Strike; and OpenCL is completely broken: not only it detects my card as a HD 8000 series and codename "Hainan" (which it's not, it's a Pitcairn R9 270X), but it says my OpenCL device has 32 KB of memory and a clock of 555 MHz instead of 1070.
All of this just makes me wanna say a big "fuck you" to AMD on Linux and go to Windows where the drivers are actually good.
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