So I had a GTX 670 2G card old as fuck but still kicks along fine with me and my old man gaming.
Upgraded today. So I booted into my windows SSD with only Skyrim and uninstalled the the nvidia graphics driver via add/remove programs. No problem my RX 480 is up to speed in windows but caps at 60 FPS vsync even when I turn it off. Dont care it works.
Linux.... Well Its having a fit. Ive deleteted my linux SSD.... changer file systems from ext4 to btrfs.... and the fucking thing will not play with a ubuntu gnome 16.04 install. Un going to get wrecked (ie drunk) and try agin tomorrow. Im lucky all my shit is on a BTRFS pool of drives any linux can read. ...now mayby even windows can read
My upgrade from a Nvidia GTX670 2G card to a AMD RX 480 8G card under linux....FAIL so far
I've got an r9 380 and a 970. the 380 is 1000x easier to set up in Linux (arch, ubuntu, centos, fedora) than the 970, which boots to black screen 90% of the time and requires tons of work for me to get it working.
I have no idea where people are getting this idea from. Linux just takes long er to mature than Windows for GPUs.
Me too but also AMD was making open source GPU drivers and there binary drivers worked ok for now.....Well Im at a noob dead end.....Im going to pass out drinking, then start again....that's how linux rolls :(
Tomorrow I will hold you to that my friend :)....Im 3 quarters to way to pissed its grand final day in Australia, Victoria and Im mad as a cut snake :)
Add to that Im chating on the forum on my Skyrim only Win 10 Intell 80G drive...I need to hit someone :)
Sure thing. I'm GMT-7, so we've got a bit of time difference going on, but that won't stop me. My weekend is relatively open.
We can work on this tomorrow, but in the mean time, consider downloading the Antergos installer if you want to try the Arch route. (they've pretty much automated the process, from my experience)
The RX480 isn't supported until kernel 4.7 by the open source amdgpu driver. Ubuntu 16.04 comes with kernel 4.4 by default. The next Ubuntu 16.10 (release October 20th) will ship with kernel 4.8.
So I would suggest that you either update the kernel on your Ubuntu system, wait til the official release or install a rolling release distro with an up to date kernel (4.7 or 4.8 as of right now).
Nvidias closed source drivers currently deliver better performance than the AMD driver. But they definitely don't work better. Open source drivers work best, but that is where Nvidia's drivers suck and AMD is currently doing a lot of development. That is why "amdgpu" is mentioned all the time. It can be paired the the closed source driver part called "amdgpu-pro" which is supposed to bring even better performance and vulkan support. AMD is even working on bringing freesync to linux, which I very much approve and will make my next graphics card a Radeon :)
I don't understand why AMD decided to make the two different drivers. Can't they just make it all open-source? It annoys the hell out of me, especially because of how they're acting like they're being so Linux friendly.
I mean, they're leagues ahead of Nvidia, but that isn't saying much.
AMD driver in Linux has a bug with gtk environments and it has not been corrected yet. So with AMDGPU (or -PRO) gnome, cinnamon, Patheon etc are a no go for now unless you go for newer kernels. It should be corrected soon but not now.
Go for either Mate or KDE desktop environments. They will work fine with those. Try Kubuntu or Ubuntu Mate or Mint with mate or KDE.
Actually the AMDGPU-PRO drivers have great performance and the open driver is catching up in newer kernels. But mint and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS are still in 4.4. So no fix for the drivers. Thus faster solution. Use a different DE.
The are not diffrent drivers. The are the same driver but the PRO has some proprietary binary blob extensions concerning acceleration. The open developers has pushing to push all the extensions to the open driver gradually but the decision makers are not convinced it is safe yet yo reveal all driver details to the competition.