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dcbdbis

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From: Aurora, Colorado

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 247

[SOLVED] AMD RX 480 support Question

Good Afternoon Fellow Archers,

Just purchased this card from MSI. In LinuxQuestions.org, and in other places, I can't find an explicit reference to this card in the OpenSource AMDGPU. It plays my Windows games very well on my Windows partition, and generates a lot less heat than my NVidia card that it replaced.

Is this card even supported yet?

And if so, is there an AMD equivalent to "ForceCompositionPipeline" to address screen tearing in those DE's that do not have a compositor, such as MATE?

So far, there is not a lot in google about this card and Linux. I ask about the AMDGPU drivers, as my son tells me that the proprietary AMD drivers are...well...buggy and don't perform as well as the open source drivers.

Any info and/or pointers to articles will be appreciated.

Sincerely and respectfully,

Dave

Last edited by dcbdbis (2016-11-30 01:20:09)

Taijian

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Registered: 2016-04-10

Posts: 74

Re: [SOLVED] AMD RX 480 support Question

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#AMD

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU

You want to go with xf86-video-amdgpu and mesa. Should just work out of the box.

Drehstromlampe

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From: GER

Registered: 2015-07-18

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] AMD RX 480 support Question

Good Afternoon Fellow Archers,

Just purchased this card from MSI. In LinuxQuestions.org, and in other places, I can't find an explicit reference to this card in the OpenSource AMDGPU.

https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ … u_device.c
line 74 and 75

Last edited by Drehstromlampe (2016-11-29 21:27:35)

atomicbeef

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 98

Re: [SOLVED] AMD RX 480 support Question

You should use a standalone compositor like Compton if your desktop environment lacks one. As for which driver to use, when I had a Radeon 7970, I found the proprietary drivers to be extremely buggy (no graphics after suspend and 2D performance was terrible), and while the open source ones worked well everywhere else, 3D performance was pretty bad. I don't know if your RX 480 will be any better, but NVIDIA cards seem to be significantly better supported on Linux than AMD cards.

dcbdbis

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From: Aurora, Colorado

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 247

Re: [SOLVED] AMD RX 480 support Question

Big Thanks to all for the replies. I appreciate it!

Dave