Radeon Software For Linux News Today

AMD is hiring engineers to work on build and packaging of their 'AMD Unified Linux Driver' to enhance the experience of deploying their packaged graphics driver stack -- including ROCm -- across different Linux distributions.

AMD on Valentine's Day released an updated Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver stack for enterprise Linux operating systems that targets the Radeon RX 7900 series and Radeon PRO W6800 / W7800 / W7900 graphics cards.

AMD's GPUOpen team today released version 1.4.33 of the Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK

AMD announced back during CES the Radeon RX 7600 XT as a $329 USD graphics card for 1080p/1440p gaming.

While AMD officially supports a much narrower range of more recent Radeon hardware with their official graphics drivers for Windows (and Linux - as it pertains to their Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver and AMDVLK official Vulkan driver), thanks to the open-source community around AMD's open-source driver code there are always nifty things that come about..

AMD has officially brought ROCm to Radeon RX 7000 & Radeon PRO W7000 GPUs with the latest Linux driver release.

As covered in the launch-day Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT Linux review/testing, there is already upstream open-source driver support for these new RDNA3 graphics cards in recent versions of the Linux kernel and Mesa

Last month AMD announced the Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT graphics cards while today these graphics cards go on sale for $449 and $499 USD, respectively.

The just-announced AMD Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 are working quite well under a fully open-source and upstream graphics driver stack.

Both new AMD Zen CPU and Radeon GPU microcode/firmware have been published today to the linux-firmware.git tree.