I recently built a new pc and since I switched from Windows to Lunux (Kubuntu) I got an amd gpu (6700 XT). Because people told me it is less of a hassle than Nvidia. It works fine out of the box, but the choice of drivers confuse me. For gaming is the default amdgpu good enough? Is amdgpu-pro the same as the official Radeon drivers from amd? Are they better for gaming? Is Mesa yet another driver or something in addition to a driver? Why are there no settings/gui anywhere (using the default amdgpu)?

  • Sh1nyM3t4l4ss@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You listed AMDGPU-Pro as a kernel driver. Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m quite sure it is a proprietary userspace OpenGL/Vulkan driver that uses the open source AMDGPU kernel driver.

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      1 year ago

      To my knowledge, you are mostly correct. The AMDGPU-Pro driver is mostly user space implementation similar to MESA, but the reason I listed it as a kernel driver is because it injects closed source binary blobs into the kernel thereby extending AMDGPU functionality and tainting it.

      ie. AMDGPU-Pro requires using DKMS or AKMOD where regular AMDGPU does not