support for AMD Catalyst driver will stop in Ubuntu 16.04

support for AMD Catalyst driver will stop in Ubuntu 16.04
 

Developers Ubuntu moved into the category of legacy support for a restricted driver AMD Catalyst (fglrx) , which is not a part of the release Ubuntu 16.04 . Users are advised to switch to the open driver AMDGPU / Radeon . Install driver AMD Catalyst site AMD prevents that the latest release supports only X-server 1.17 and cores Linux to 3.19 , while in the Ubuntu 16.04 involved X-server 1.18 and the kernel Linux 4.4 . Previously, Ubuntu in conjunction with AMD preparing special driver assembly, taking into account the version of the graphics stack components distribution.

C taking into account the development of the company AMD open driver AMDGPU , aimed at providing full support for modern graphics cards AMD based on the architecture of GCN , delivery of proprietary driver AMD Catalyst only makes sense to support old series GPU AMD . The problem is that the support of the old GPU will soon be removed from AMD Catalyst – will soon be carried out considerable cleaning driver, as a result of which will be retired episodes Radeon HD 8000 (HD 8400 and below), Radeon HD 7000 Series (HD 7600 and below), Radeon HD 6000, Radeon HD 5000 and other cards do not use architecture GCN .

from the open driver problems that eventually planned to remove the drivers on the basis of the stack AMDGPU , mentioned lack of support for OpenGL 4.5 (in open driver OpenGL 4.1), the lag in performance when you run many games, incomplete support OpenCL , the lack of support CrossFire multi-GPU

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