AMD Linux Graphics Drivers and How They Are Used in Slackware.
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So what's the latest experience with AMD and linux? I primarily game with a spiffy video card, and the big reason I'd upgrade is so that I could get the spiffy effects in No Man's Sky, and other dx12 games (witcher 3's next gen upgrade, although God only knows how that'll work with proton.) It looks like AMD is benchmarking better than comparable nvidia cards for half the price. Now, I'm not sold on AMD--the times I've tried an AMD card, it's been a crapfest, to put it nicely. (And granted, it was 5+ years ago.) I also do some streaming, although I don't do hardware encoding.
I didn't think AMD cards do raytracing and the like on Linux yet?
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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AMD Improving The Linux Experience When Running New GPUs Without Proper Driver Support
Written by Michael Larabel. 23 December 2022.
While AMD provided upstream open-source driver support for the Radeon RX 7900 series launch, the initial user experience can be less than desirable if running a new Radeon GPU but initially running an out-of-date kernel or lacking the necessary firmware support. With a new patch series posted AMD is looking to improve the experience by being able to more easily fallback to the firmware frame-buffer when their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver fails to properly load.......
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The Old Radeon "R600" Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Now Enables SPIR-V
Michael Larabel. 2 January 2023.
The open-source R600 Gallium3D driver for supporting up through the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards on Linux has an interesting new year addition... ARB_gl_spirv!
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Since the start of December on Linux kernel patches, for those paying close attention,
Borislav Petkov has added an " (AMD)" to his name and no longer using his SUSE email address.
Petkov has returned to AMD.
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xf86-video-ati 22.0 Released For Older ATI/AMD GPUs
By Michael Larabel. 26 April 2023.
The xf86-video-ati 22.0 driver has been released as a rare update to this X.Org DDX driver used by older pre-GCN ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards........
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The Old Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D Driver Drops Its TGSI Code Path
By Michael Larabel. 27 April 2023.
...........While the R600g driver hasn't seen any major work by AMD engineers in a number of years now, Gert Wollny has continued to do a nice job making improvements here and there to the driver -- particularly around supporting NIR as is the preferred IR by other modern graphics drivers rather than the aging TGSI...............
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AMDGPU Linux Driver Enabling FreeSync Video By Default, Improved Power Savings
By Michael Larabel. 31 May 2023.
AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have out a rather significant set of patches this week to their display code "DC" for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver.........
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AMD Graphics Driver In Linux 6.5 Improves Power Management, Adds CP Shadow Buffer
By Michael Larabel. 3 June 2023.
On Friday a big set of patches affecting the AMDGPU/Radeon/AMDKFD kernel drivers were submitted for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 6.5 kernel merge window opens in the coming weeks. A lot of new feature code is part of this pull for benefiting new hardware, continuing to refine AMD GPU power management under Linux, and more........
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