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It's generally not recommended to use AMDGPU-PRO over mesa, and mesa beats it in large majority of benchmarks too. Saying it's "better" is arguably not true and could mislead users into not understanding that they're already using mesa and don't need to manually install drivers. |
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'''AMDGPU''' is [[AMD]]'s fully [[Open-source software|open source]] unified [[device driver|graphics driver]] for [[Linux]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2015-April/081501.html |title=Initial amdgpu driver release |date=2015-04-20 |accessdate=2016-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/open-source-amdgpu-linux-driver-gets-its-first-point-release-for-mesa-11-2-500682.shtml|title=Open-Source AMDGPU Linux Driver Gets Its First Point Release for Mesa 11.2|work=Linux.softpedia.com|accessdate=2016-07-25}}</ref> AMDGPU only officially supports cards built upon [[Graphics Core Next|GCN]] 1.2 or higher, support for previous cards is experimental and may be enabled by a kernel parameter.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-SI-Experimental-Code|title=AMD Unleashes Initial AMDGPU Driver Support For GCN 1.0 / Southern Islands GPUs|work=Phoronix|date=2016-05-13|accessdate=2017-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=AMDgpu driver documentation|url=https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/gpu/amdgpu.html|website=Freedesktop.org}}</ref>
AMDGPU also has an optional [[closed-source]] component that operates on top of the open source AMDGPU for
[[File:Linux AMD graphics stack.svg|thumb|alt=Diagram|Linux device drivers for AMD hardware in August 2016]]
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