What driver should I use for my AMD Radeon R7 360 graphics card?

[Zangar_]

I'm looking for the driver that will best suit my graphics card. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.

[dungeon]

radeon driver is default AFAIK on Ubuntu 16.04 for R7 360. Second option is amdgpu-pro driver available on AMD site.... these two are most easier to install, first you have by default and second should be easy to install/remove.

There are 2 more driver options actaully for R7 360 (catalyst and amdgpu), but require preparations/interventions on Ubuntu 16.04... changing, upgrading or even downgrading one or more OS components to make them work.

[Zangar_]

radeon driver is default AFAIK on Ubuntu 16.04 for R7 360. Second option is amdgpu-pro driver available on AMD site.... these two are most easier to install, first you have by default and second should be easy to install/remove.

There are 2 more driver options actaully for R7 360 (catalyst and amdgpu), but require preparations/interventions on Ubuntu 16.04... changing, upgrading or even downgrading one or more OS components to make them work.

Which one of those will perform the best?

[dungeon]

Which one of those will perform the best?

By definition or rule of thumb theory, newer should be the better well if you don't hit some new bug also I mention what i think is easier to setup from user perspective on your Ubuntu 16.04 distro (there you have radeon by default for your card and most easier else to try there is i think amdgpu-pro), but any drivers could be good enough.

Catalyst and radeon are old approach drivers, newer mainstream ones nowdays are amdgpu and amdgpu-pro, so if you like newer then use one of these.

[Zangar_]

By definition or rule of thumb theory, newer should be the better well if you don't hit some new bug also I mention what i think is easier to setup from user perspective on your Ubuntu 16.04 distro (there you have radeon by default for your card and most easier else to try there is i think amdgpu-pro), but any drivers could be good enough.

Catalyst and radeon are old approach drivers, newer mainstream ones nowdays are amdgpu and amdgpu-pro, so if you like newer then use one of these.

I will try to install amdgpu-pro tomorrow! Thanks for your help! Also, do you think that for gaming, one or another driver will give higher frames-per-second?

[Zangar_]

Thanks debianxfce!

[arturbmallmann]

It's essential have the kernel 4.15 or greater. I have a R7 360 to, and I'm using the opensource solution: amdgpu + Mesa 17. The new updates on the kernel made a big difference on performance. But in my case I had to compile the kernel, because it wasn't yet in Debian sid repository.

[arturbmallmann]

What kind of acceleration doesn't work? It's running everything properly. (at least much playable). Even vulkan is working, not 100%, but now it`s working. I just had to compile the kernel.

[grok]

Do not use old and buggy operating systems. Use a rolling release distribution like Debian testing Xfce. How to use open source drivers, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3AxgH2bbsE

You have an upgrade path on 16.04 too.. (the stuff for Feb 2018 was delayed to March though for M
eltdown and Spectre patches)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Kernel.2FSupport.A16.04.x_Ubuntu_Kernel_Support