#INSTALLING AMD APU DRIVERS DRIVER#
You can either go to AMD Download page and select the correspinding driver or go straight to a release page in which you can directly grab the.
#INSTALLING AMD APU DRIVERS INSTALL#
We can confirm this by running : $ lsmod | grep amd Install AMDGPU driver from official packageĪMD provides their official driver along with an installer in the website. This means that all modules are loaded by the kernel and currently in charge of communicating with the GPU. It is clear from the output that the AMD Radeon driver amdgpu is already installed and in use. Ĭapabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom You can do this by running the following command: $ sudo lshw -c video The first thing you need to do is to take a look at your VGA card model and driver in use. According to claims made by the company, AMDGPU-PRO proprietary components enable better intensive 3D application support.īut despite having better support, benchmark shows that AMDGPU sometimes perform slightly better than its PRO counterpart.ĪMDGPU driver supports these GPUs ( non-exhaustive list) : CARRIZO APU, Radeon R9 Nano/Fury/FuryX, STONEY APU, Radeon R9 285/380/380X/M295X/M390X/M395X/M485X, Radeon R5 M315, Radeon R7 M260/M265/M340/M360/M445/M460, Radeon RX 470/480, Radeon RX 460, Radeon RX 550/560/570/580, Radeon RX Vega 56/64, Radeon VII, Radeon RX 5600/5600XT/5700/5700XT, Radeon RX 5300/5300XT/5500/5500XT, Radeon RX 6800/6800XT/6900XT, Radeon RX 6700XT, Radeon RX 6600/6600XT. It's a result of intense coordination with the open source community, so compatibility is ensured across distributions.ĪMDGPU-PRO is the same open source driver, but with a proprietary overlay developed by AMD themselves. You may wonder what's the difference between the two? Read on to find the answer.ĪMDGPU is the open source driver for AMD Radeon graphics cards based on Graphics Core Next architecture. If you do further research on AMD website, you will find that they offer two separate driver for Linux : AMDGPU and AMDGPU-PRO. 3 Install AMDGPU driver from official package AMDGPU vs AMDGPU-PRO