Driver-update: AMD Radeon Software GPU-PRO Linux 16.15.1013 bèta

AMD heeft begin dit jaar aangegeven meer werk te willen gaan maken van drivers voor Linux en heeft nu een bèta uitgebracht deze zogenaamde amdgpu-opensourcedriver, met onder meer ondersteuning voor de Vulkan-api. Er zijn echter nogal wat beperkingen. Zo worden alleen videokaarten uit de Radeon R9-serie ondersteund en kan de driver alleen worden gebruikt op de 64bit-versie van Ubuntu 14.04.4. Voorlopig worden alleen de basis weergave- en powermanagement-fucties ondersteund, dus de driver is zeker nog niet voor dagelijks gebruik geschikt. De release notes voor deze uitgave kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.

AMD Product Family Compatibility

• AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Graphics
• AMD Radeon R9 Fury Graphics
• AMD Radeon R9 Nano Graphics
• AMD Radeon R9 M395X Graphics
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Graphics
• AMD Radeon R9 380 Graphics
• AMD Radeon R9 285 Graphics

Compatible Operating Systems

• Ubuntu 14.04.4 (64-bit version)

Highlights

• Supported APIs:
  • OpenGL 4.5 and GLX 1.4
  • OpenCL 1.2
  • Vulkan 1.0
  • VDPAU
• Basic display features
• Basic power management features
• KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) and ADF (Atomic Display Framework) support
• GPL compliant kernel module
• Install script and Debian packages for Ubuntu 14.04.4

Important Notes

• This product is based on a published Khronos Vulkan specification and this beta driver is expected to pass the Khronos Conformance Test Process. Current conformance status can be found here.
• This driver is intended as beta level support for use solely with Vulkan applications and as such some driver functionality has been removed. This is including, but not limited to, support for other Graphics APIs, Radeon Settings and other Radeon Software driver features.

What is Vulkan
As a complement to OpenGL, descended from AMD's Mantle, and forged by the industry, Vulkan is a powerful low-overhead graphics API that gives software developers deep control over the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of Radeon GPUs and multi-core CPUs. More information on Vulkan can be found here. More information on the latest Vulkan-related news for AMD products can be found here.

Known Limitations

• Current driver is only validated for the products listed on the AMD Product Compatibility table.
• Multi-GPU features are not supported
• Only basic display and power features are enabled and validated
• RandR 1.4 features are not validated
• OpenCL features are not fully validated
• Workstation features are not supported
• Suspend to disk (S4) is not supported
• Certain driver functionality has been removed

Known Issues

• Piglit test causes xinit to crash
• Multi-display support is not working properly with more than three displays
• 4K displays may go blank after changing display modes

Versienummer	16.15.1013 bèta
Releasestatus	Beta
Besturingssystemen	Linux
Website	AMD
Download	http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release-Notes.aspx
Bestandsgrootte	72,70MB
Licentietype	Voorwaarden (GNU/BSD/etc.)

Reacties (2)

[Nico Klus]

Op ubuntu 15.10 zou het ook moeten werken (4.2 kernel)
zie ook de eerste ervaringen van Michael
http://www.phoronix.com/s...=article&item=amd-gpu-pro

[Just3]

Inderdaad nog niet echt aan te bevelen voor dagelijks gebruik. Zoals AMD's John Bridgman zegt:

"Don't think we have any test coverage on 16.04 yet but that should change fairly soon. This release is really more about getting Vulkan out on Linux to encourage game development & testing. There has been some perf[ormance, red.] work on the OpenGL side internally but don't know if that made it into this release."

Bron: https://www.phoronix.com/...pport?p=859146#post859146