On 10/26/2017 06:34 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > As for the computer at hand, I want to put an end to this Nvidia > obstacle to getting stuff done. It's been suggested to me that Radeon > RX 560 would be well supported by distro-provided drivers, but the > "*2" footnote at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMDGPU-Driver > doesn't look too good. Based on that table it seems one should get > Radeon RX 460. Is this the correct conclusion? Does Radeon RX 460 Just > Work with Ubuntu 16.04? Is Radeon RX 460 going to be > WebRender-compatible? >
I have a RX 460 in a desktop with F26 and can confirm that it works out-of-the-box at 4K with the open source drivers, and will happily run Pathfinder demos at <16ms frame time.* It also seems to run Servo's Webrender just fine. It's been superseded by the RX 560, which is a faster clock of the same chip. It should work just as well, but might need a slightly newer kernel than the 4xx to pick up the pci ids (maybe a problem with LTS ubuntu?) The RX 570 and 580 should be fine too, but require power connectors. The Vega models are waiting on a kernel-side driver rewrite (by AMD) that will land in 4.15 (hopefully with new features and regressions to the RX 5xx series...) Intel graphics are also nice but only available on the E3 xeons AFAIK. And nouveau is stuck, because new cards require signed firmware that nVidia is unwilling to distribute. * While Pathfinder happily renders at 60fps, Firefox draws frames slower because of its WebGL readback path. That is not the fault of the GPU, however. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
