Gentoo Wiki
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AMDGPU - Gentoo wiki
AMDGPU is the open source graphics drivers for AMD Radeon and other GPUs. Older Radeon cards are supported by the radeon driver.
graphics driver for AMD GPUs on Linux
Factsheet
Developer AMD
Release 1.0 / 20 April 2015; 11 years ago (2015-04-20)
Stable release 6.16
/ 4 August 2025; 10 months ago (2025-08-04)
/ 4 August 2025; 10 months ago (2025-08-04)
Developer AMD
Release 1.0 / 20 April 2015; 11 years ago (2015-04-20)
Stable release 6.16
/ 4 August 2025; 10 months ago (2025-08-04)
/ 4 August 2025; 10 months ago (2025-08-04)
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I believe your answer can be found from the command line.
$ man -k amd
amdgpu (4) - AMD RADEON GPU video driver
pamdeinterlace (1) - remove ever other row from a PAM/PNM image
pamdice (1) - slice a Netpbm image into many horizontally and/or vertically
radeon (4) - ATI/AMD RADEON video driver
man radeon gives a list of supported hardware, as well as a link to their wiki:
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The radeon driver supports PCI, AGP, and PCIe video cards based on the following ATI/AMD chips
(note: list is non-exhaustive):
R100 Radeon 7200
RV100 Radeon 7000(VE), M6, RN50/ES1000
RS100 Radeon IGP320(M)
RV200 Radeon 7500, M7, FireGL 7800
RS200 Radeon IGP330(M)/IGP340(M)
RS250 Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP
R200 Radeon 8500, 9100, FireGL 8800/8700
RV250 Radeon 9000PRO/9000, M9
RV280 Radeon 9200PRO/9200/9200SE/9250, M9+
RS300 Radeon 9100 IGP
RS350 Radeon 9200 IGP
RS400/RS480 Radeon XPRESS 200(M)/1100 IGP
R300 Radeon 9700PRO/9700/9500PRO/9500/9600TX, FireGL X1/Z1
R350 Radeon 9800PRO/9800SE/9800, FireGL X2
R360 Radeon 9800XT
RV350 Radeon 9600PRO/9600SE/9600/9550, M10/M11, FireGL T2
RV360 Radeon 9600XT
RV370 Radeon X300, M22
RV380 Radeon X600, M24
RV410 Radeon X700, M26 PCIe
R420 Radeon X800 AGP
R423/R430 Radeon X800, M28 PCIe
R480/R481 Radeon X850 PCIe/AGP
RV505/RV515/RV516/RV550
Radeon X1300/X1400/X1500/X1550/X2300
R520 Radeon X1800
RV530/RV560 Radeon X1600/X1650/X1700
RV570/R580 Radeon X1900/X1950
RS600/RS690/RS740
Radeon X1200/X1250/X2100
R600 Radeon HD 2900
RV610/RV630 Radeon HD 2400/2600/2700/4200/4225/4250
RV620/RV635 Radeon HD 3410/3430/3450/3470/3650/3670
RV670 Radeon HD 3690/3850/3870
RS780/RS880 Radeon HD 3100/3200/3300/4100/4200/4250/4290
RV710/RV730 Radeon HD 4330/4350/4550/4650/4670/5145/5165/530v/545v/560v/565v
RV740/RV770/RV790
Radeon HD 4770/4730/4830/4850/4860/4870/4890
CEDAR Radeon HD 5430/5450/6330/6350/6370
REDWOOD Radeon HD 5550/5570/5650/5670/5730/5750/5770/6530/6550/6570
JUNIPER Radeon HD 5750/5770/5830/5850/5870/6750/6770/6830/6850/6870
CYPRESS Radeon HD 5830/5850/5870
HEMLOCK Radeon HD 5970
PALM Radeon HD 6310/6250
SUMO/SUMO2 Radeon HD 6370/6380/6410/6480/6520/6530/6550/6620
BARTS Radeon HD 6790/6850/6870/6950/6970/6990
TURKS Radeon HD 6570/6630/6650/6670/6730/6750/6770
CAICOS Radeon HD 6430/6450/6470/6490
CAYMAN Radeon HD 6950/6970/6990
ARUBA Radeon HD 7000 series
TAHITI Radeon HD 7900 series
PITCAIRN Radeon HD 7800 series
VERDE Radeon HD 7700 series
OLAND Radeon HD 8000 series
HAINAN Radeon HD 8000 series
BONAIRE Radeon HD 7790 series
KAVERI KAVERI APUs
KABINI KABINI APUs
HAWAII Radeon R9 series
MULLINS MULLINS APUs
Reference: http://xmodulo.com/how-to-check-graphics-card-on-linux.html
This is a good tutorial to view information about your GPU. I especially like lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D" and sudo lspci -v -s ##:##.# (using the numbers you found from the previous command).
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As of right now, the beta drivers have only been tested on ubuntu 14.04 and kernel version 4.2. If you have a Sea Island card, you will need to compile your own kernel with ck enabled. If you're comfortable with the terminal, this is actually pretty easy. You can check the gentoo forums as this is the norm for them. As of right now, unless you are a developer, it is best to avoid the nvidia and amd vulkan drivers. In my experience, they are still experimental and still have many issues on the bleeding edge. My system went down just last week because of a kernel upgrade and the only reason I do use it is because I need to test the framework I'm using on different platforms. For now, stick to the mesa drivers. From what I heard, it is still comparable to the pro driver.
Amd Gpu support list by linux kernel version
AMD has open drivers so it's only a matter of whether it's radeon or amdgpu The cutoff is you use amdgpu for cards at or after GCN1 and radeon for the cards before that (for GCN1 and GCN2 both should work). For 6.x everything should just work. More on reddit.com
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December 11, 2025What is the state of AMD graphics cards on Linux?
HDR, VRR on rdna2+(steamdeck hardware) should definitely work normally, hardware acceleration with apps/vms works fine, no flickering... Wayland = excellent gaming with mesa/radv = excellent davinci with rocm-opencl = It's not better than cuda, but it's good enough for many cases blender with rocm-hip = It's close to cuda but not even close to optix recording = vaapi It's great, maybe a little below nvenc. av1 for rdna3+ I haven't seen anyone demonstrate it yet More on reddit.com
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June 24, 2024Minimal requirements for ROCm support of AMD GPUs
Officially on the consumer side, only 7900 XT and XTX is supported as well as Radeon VII (don´t get that one, support will be dropped pretty soon i guess). ROCm 6.0+ on Linux though has support for many more RDNA2/3 cards enabled by default.. However the machine learning frameworks in their official builds (PyTorch, Tensorflow) don´t have these cards enabled.. You need to build them from source or get them from an alternative source where your card is enabled.. So today: You can make it work and things have improved quite a lot over the last year! More on reddit.com
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March 2, 2024AMD gpus on Linux?
All recent AMD GPUs are well supported on Linux. More on reddit.com
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September 20, 2022Ubuntu
help.ubuntu.com › community › AMDGPU-Driver
AMDGPU-Driver - Community Help Wiki
January 3, 2022 - AMDGPU supports a growing number of cards, but will not be available for pre-GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture cards. This means that as development progresses, some select cards as far back as HD 7000 cards will be supported.
ArchWiki
wiki.archlinux.org › title › AMDGPU
AMDGPU - ArchWiki
May 28, 2026 - Officially supported kernels enable AMDGPU support for cards of the Southern Islands (GCN 1, released in 2012) and Sea Islands (GCN 2, released in 2013). The amdgpu kernel driver needs to be loaded before the radeon one. You can check which kernel driver is loaded by running lspci -k.
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AMDgpu_(Linux_kernel_module)
AMDgpu (Linux kernel module) - Wikipedia
March 28, 2026 - AMDgpu is an open source device driver for the Linux operating system developed by AMD to support its Radeon lineup of graphics cards (GPUs).
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
List of AMD graphics processing units - Wikipedia
1 month ago - ^ R300, R400 and R500 based cards do not fully comply with OpenGL 2+ as the hardware does not support all types of non-power of two (NPOT) textures. ^ a b OpenGL 4+ compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders and these are emulated on some TeraScale chips using 32-bit hardware. ^ Vulkan support is theoretically possible but has not been implemented in a stable driver. ^ Vulkan support in Linux relies on the AMDgpu ...
Dortania
dortania.github.io › GPU-Buyers-Guide › modern-gpus › amd-gpu.html
AMD GPUs | GPU Buyers Guide
December 8, 2025 - If they have a consumer equivalent ... consumer card, they should work (albeit possibly needing a fake ID). ✅ Verified: Works out of the box with confirmed reports · ☑️ Verified (spoof): Confirmed to work with a fake ID · ⚠️ Unverified: Should work (possibly with a fake ID), but no confirmed reports ... As of 12.1, Apple has added Navi 23 support...
AMD
amd.com › https://www.amd.com/en.html › customer support › downloads › drivers and support for processors and graphics
Drivers and Support for Processors and Graphics
1 week ago - How to Identify the Manufacturer and Model of an AMD Graphics Card · Install AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition · Install Radeon PRO Software · Radeon PRO Software Command Line Installation User Guide · Uninstall AMD Software · AMD Cleanup Utility · AMD Product Security · AMD Software Help Center AMD Radeon PRO Help Center · Technical and Warranty Help AMD Pensando Product Support AMD Xilinx Product Support Center ·
Reddit
reddit.com › r/linuxquestions › amd gpu support list by linux kernel version
r/linuxquestions on Reddit: Amd Gpu support list by linux kernel version
December 11, 2025 -
UPDATE I found on amd website
"AMD Radeon PRO (AI PRO R9700, PRO W7900 Dual Slot, PRO W7900, PRO W7800 48GB, PRO W7800, PRO W7700, and PRO W6800) and AMD Radeon (RX 9070 XT, RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070, RX 9060 XT, RX 9060, RX 7900 XTX, RX 7900 XT, RX 7900 GRE, RX 7800 XT, and RX 7700 XT) only support Ubuntu 24.04.3, Ubuntu 22.04.5, RHEL 10.1, and RHEL 9.7."
Then to understand if the gpu could works on my debian 13 (6.12 kernel) i should get one of this supported os (ubuntu 24, ubuntu 22, rhel 10.1, rhel 9.7) and check kernel version, amdgpu version, mesa version, and amd-firmware version et compared to my debian packages
Source : https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/reference/system-requirements.html
*END UPDATE
Hello, do you know if exist an amd gpu support list per linux kernel version? Or how can i determinate if an amd gpu cards work with a specific linux kernel? Is there some documentation on amd or linux sites?
If i try to find information of compatibility of a amd gpu card on amd website i can just download an amd driver for a linux distrubution (i don't understand, the driver is already on linux kernel, maybe this driver is just some amd tool stuff for gpu monitoring) but nothing relative to kernel version information that should already contains the driver. I'm expecting to find for each graphic cards some table that tell me that the cards work for linux kernel >= 6.X
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AMD has open drivers so it's only a matter of whether it's radeon or amdgpu The cutoff is you use amdgpu for cards at or after GCN1 and radeon for the cards before that (for GCN1 and GCN2 both should work). For 6.x everything should just work.
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I was usually guessing by searching for the release dates of the first card with that generation of chip, and then scrolling down the list on the "linux kernel version history" wikipedia page and looking at the date column there. This roughly works, though AMD was regularly slow in the past about getting the support into the kernel early enough for the release of the cards.
Linux Kernel
docs.kernel.org › gpu › amdgpu › index.html
drm/amdgpu AMDgpu driver — The Linux Kernel documentation
The drm/amdgpu driver supports all AMD Radeon GPUs based on the Graphics Core Next (GCN), Radeon DNA (RDNA), and Compute DNA (CDNA) architectures.
Debian
wiki.debian.org › AtiHowTo
AMD/ATI Drivers (amdgpu, radeon, r128, mach64)
The following procedure will install the open-source display driver packages, DRI modules (for 3D acceleration), and driver firmware/microcode. It installs the Xorg video driver metapackage which includes all drivers. Your system will automatically select which one to use on boot. If your card is supported by both AMDGPU and Radeon (such as the GCN 1.0/1.1 series), it will default to radeon.
Ubuntu
help.ubuntu.com › community › AMDGPU-PRO-Driver
AMDGPU-PRO-Driver - Community Help Wiki
December 4, 2016 - AMDGPU supports a growing number of cards, but will not be available for pre-GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture cards. This means that as development progresses, some select cards as far back as HD 7000 cards will be supported.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/linux_gaming › what is the state of amd graphics cards on linux?
r/linux_gaming on Reddit: What is the state of AMD graphics cards on Linux?
June 24, 2024 -
In my whole time using Linux I have always read something about Nvidia. their drivers and their support on Linux. Since I own a Nvidia graphics card myself I know how good it works / doesn't work. But I wonder how the AMD GPU support is on Linux? I have read that it is much better than Nvidia, but how are things like HDR, VRR or Wayland working on Linux with AMD?
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HDR, VRR on rdna2+(steamdeck hardware) should definitely work normally, hardware acceleration with apps/vms works fine, no flickering... Wayland = excellent gaming with mesa/radv = excellent davinci with rocm-opencl = It's not better than cuda, but it's good enough for many cases blender with rocm-hip = It's close to cuda but not even close to optix recording = vaapi It's great, maybe a little below nvenc. av1 for rdna3+ I haven't seen anyone demonstrate it yet
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amd gpu have the best support in the linux. But this brings some issues as well, as there is some lacks in some features oob.
AMD
amd.com › https://www.amd.com/en.html › customer support › downloads › linux drivers for radeon and radeon pro graphics
Linux® Drivers for AMD Radeon™ and Radeon PRO™ Graphics
May 23, 2025 - Download Linux® drivers below ... AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series, AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series, AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series, AMD Radeon™ RX 5000 Series, AMD Radeon™ RX Vega Series, Radeon™ RX 500 Series, and Radeon™ RX 400 Series...
DRI
dri.freedesktop.org › docs › drm › gpu › amdgpu.html
drm/amdgpu AMDgpu driver — The Linux Kernel documentation
The default is using radeon driver when it available, otherwise using amdgpu driver. ... Set CIK support driver. This parameter works after set config CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK. For CIK asic, when radeon driver is enabled, set value 0 to use radeon driver, while set value 1 to use amdgpu driver.
OpenBSD
man.openbsd.org › amdgpu.4
amdgpu(4) - OpenBSD manual pages
amdgpu is an Xorg driver for AMD RADEON-based video cards with the following features: ... The amdgpu driver supports SI and newer families' video cards.
AMD ROCm
rocm.docs.amd.com › projects › install-on-linux › en › latest › reference › system-requirements.html
System requirements (Linux) — ROCm installation (Linux)
The following table shows the supported AMD Instinct™ GPUs, and Radeon™ PRO and Radeon GPUs.
GitHub
github.com › archdevlab › amdgpu-pro
GitHub - archdevlab/amdgpu-pro: AMD Proprietary drivers packaged for Archlinux. Include Vulkan, OpenGL and OpenCL drivers. · GitHub
ROCm OpenCL stack, supports Vega 10 and later products (https://github.com/archdevlab/rocm.git). To switch the defualt driver for Vulkan and OpenGL you can use this script in /etc/profile.d/ #!/usr/bin/bash ICD_DIR="/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d" AMDGPUPROGL64_DIR="/usr/lib/amdgpu-pro" AMDGPUPROGL32_DIR="/usr/lib32/amdgpu-pro" # RADV #export VK_ICD_FILENAMES="${ICD_DIR}/radeon_icd.i686.json:${ICD_DIR}/radeon_icd.x86_64.json" # AMDVLK #export VK_ICD_FILENAMES="${ICD_DIR}/amd_icd32.json:${ICD_DIR}/amd_icd64.json" # AMDGPU-PRO #export VK_ICD_FILENAMES="${ICD_DIR}/amd_pro_icd32.json:${ICD_DIR}/amd_pro_icd64.json" # Use AMDGPU-PRO OpenGL #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${AMDGPUPROGL64_DIR}/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${AMDGPUPROGL32_DIR}/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" # Use Mesa OpenGL #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/lib32/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
Author archdevlab
openSUSE
en.opensuse.org › SDB:AMDGPU-PRO
SDB:AMDGPU-PRO - openSUSE Wiki
April 1, 2024 - This guide is to help you install the AMDGPU-PRO proprietary AMD drivers for video cards from GCN1 (Radeon GPU HD 7730+) to most recent series only. Older architectures (Terascale) are not supported with Pro drivers on modern OSes.
Phoronix
phoronix.com › news › Linux-6.2-AMDGPU-Changes
Linux 6.2 AMDGPU Driver Gets Newer GPUs Working On Arm, SR-IOV Fixes For RDNA3/GFX11 - Phoronix
November 5, 2022 - Having the DCN software support on Arm will now enable more recent AMD Radeon graphics cards to have working display support on Arm desktops/servers. Older pre-DCN AMD graphics cards have already worked on AArch64 but changes were needed to the DCN code path. In particular, there isn't any soft floating-point toolchain on AArch64 and that ran into issues with the DCN path for the FPU code. With Linux 6.2 the DCN code in AMDGPU now successfully builds and works on 64-bit Arm allowing these newer graphics cards to have working display support.