Open Source AMD Graphics Are Now Awesome, Here’s How To Get Them

The AMD proprietary driver on Linux is fast but buggy, and the open source driver has now become awesome – here’s how to get the open source driver with the new performance improvements. Why Use Open Source Graphics Drivers? Users of non-Intel graphics have historically had to use the proprietary graphics drivers provided by AMD and Nvidia to get the performance they’d expect. This is still the case for Nvidia users, as the open source “Nouveau” driver is severely limited; however, AMD users now actually have a choice. Recent releases of the Linux kernel plus the AMD open source graphics...

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