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AMD GPU-PRO 16.20.3 Beta Linux Driver Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 21 May 2016 at 09:56 PM EDT. 118 Comments

A new release of the AMD GPU-PRO "hybrid" Linux graphics driver stack is now available.

This second beta of the AMD GPU-PRO beta driver comes with support for the Dota 2 Vulkan renderer expected to be released next week, now officially supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS rather than Ubuntu 14.04, and contains various other enhancements. This release doesn't yet make use of GCN 1.0 support with its AMDGPU kernel DKMS driver but only GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.2 hardware. OpenGL 4.5 and OpenCL 1.2 are supported along side Vulkan 1.0.

More details on this AMD GPU-PRO beta driver rleease (v16.20.3) can be found via this AMD.com software page.

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