14 DAY TRIAL // AMD quietly released a few days ago a new stable version of its proprietary graphics driver for Linux-based operating systems, supporting various AMD Radeon graphics.
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 is here a little over two months after the AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 release, which added support for AMD Radeon HD 7xxx/8xxx graphics cards. This version, however, appears to add support for Canonical's latest Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, but only for the 64-bit version of it.
A couple of issues have been resolved as well in AMDGPU-PRO 17.10, such as system boot failures on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 operating systems when using Display Port 1.2, as well as periodic screen corruption during system restart if the AMD performance mode was to be switched manually.
Supports CentOS 7.3/6.8, RHEL 7.3/6.8, SLED/SLES 12 SP2, and Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
The AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 graphics driver is available for download right now from our website, and it is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 and 6.8, CentOS 7.3 and 6.8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server 12 Service Pack 2, and Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS operating systems. Please note that only 64-bit variants are supported.
It supports OpenGL 4.5 and GLX 1.4, OpenCL 1.2 and Vulkan 1.0, as well as the VDPAU APIs, provides basic display and power management features, support for both ADF (Atomic Display Framework) and KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) technologies, as well as Radeon FreeSync and AMD FirePro support.
However, this release is far from perfect, as a few known issues remain. These include system hangs when OpenCL allocates more than the available system RAM, a deadlock when running the Vulkan CTS dEQP-VK.synchronization.internally_synchronized_objects.pipeline_cache_compute test, and an X.Org Server crash when running the Ansys V18 app on RHEL systems.