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freeos2017
January 14th, 2017, 07:32 PM
Hello,
Fairly new to Linux but been playing around for a couple years already. I want to get the most performance out of my machine so do I need to install the drivers from the AMD website? If so, could you provide steps on how to do that?
Or is the AMD Tonga driver good enough?
Thanks!

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QIII
January 14th, 2017, 09:55 PM
If you are using 16.10, you should be able to install AMDGPU-PRO and the Vulkan SDK from the Ubuntu repositories.

Do you have synaptic installed?

4l3x2
January 15th, 2017, 09:07 PM
I use this thread because is somewhat similar to my issue.

I just sold my Mac Mini Late 2009 and bought a (used) Quad Core with 4Gb of ram, 600Gb Hd and (Sapphire) Ati Radeon Toxic R9 270x with 2Gb ddr3 video ram.

After installing XUbuntu 16.10 I did all the upgrades and installed all the software I need except of the video drivers.

The line I see from lspci (related to the video driver) is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Curacao XT / Trinidad XT [Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370X]

In order to obtain maximum performances I downloaded the drivers from AMD/ATI, but they are for 14.01 Ubuntu (64bits).
They are packaged in a .deb file, so I tried to install them anyway. The gui is correctly shown, but when I click on install, the procedure stops suddenly and I´m back in the initial page.

Now I´ll try to install the driver suggested by QIII, but what are the differences between these packages?

Except of being open/closed source, obviously.

Thank you very much :)

4l3x2
January 15th, 2017, 09:11 PM
A little update, AMDGPU driver was already installed, Vulkan sdk is not shown by Synaptic, I installed all the possible choices:
Vulkan utils
Mesa-Vulkan drivers
Libvulkan1
Libvulkan-dev