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I'm thinking about switching from fglrx to AMDGPU with an old Radeon HD 7870 atm. Mind sharing more details? Anything I should watch out for? Btw there are two
by pxc 8y ago
I'm thinking about switching from fglrx to AMDGPU with an old Radeon HD 7870 atm. Mind sharing more details? Anything I should watch out for?
Btw there are two open-source drivers for older AMD graphics cards; one is their current, officially-supported open-source driver which had support for a couple of older generations added, and the other is an independent open-source driver which is much older (and supports the _really_ old cards).
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