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Libert

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Registered: 2023-03-09

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Driver selection for Radeon Pro W6600

I bought a Radeon Pro W6600 for my work, but I'm having trouble selecting the appropriate driver. I can't find clear information on whether I should continue using Mesa, which I was previously using, or switch to the AMDGPU-Pro driver. Could you please provide me with some guidance on this?

I'm wondering if following the instructions in this guide to install the AMDGPU-Pro driver is a better option: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU_PRO

Could you please help me make a decision on which driver to choose?

PS. If I change the graphics driver, would it be better to reinstall Arch Linux?

Last edited by Libert (2023-03-09 15:30:23)

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V1del

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Re: Driver selection for Radeon Pro W6600

No to your PS in any and all situations.

The amdgpu-pro driver can be installed alongside and in complement with the open source driver and switched on the fly, there's no hard either-or situation. Which of the two is better generally depends on your usecases. In the majority of cases the OSS drivers should be preferred, unless for some content creation specifics, like the AMF encoder for video encoding or e.g. Davinci Resolve mandating a proprietary GL driver. It might also have better HIP integration for e.g. blender. But in any case all of this is highly configurable and the guide in the wiki states and assumes as much.

From a general standpoint use the OSS drivers for your normal day to day, and use the Pro drivers via the relevant starter scripts/environment variables for the specific use cases that mandate them.