Highlights
- Introducing support for AMD Radeon PRO W7900D.
- Enabled preliminary ROCm support on Ryzen AI Max 300 platform.
- Consistent with AMD’s commitment to Open-Source software, we will be making the following changes to the composition of the Radeon Software for Linux releases, starting with 25.20:
- The Mesa Vulkan driver will be officially supported, along with Mesa OpenGL and Multimedia support. The AMD proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers will no longer be included in the release.
- AMF will no longer be included in the release. AMF users are advised to transition to VA-API / Mesa Multimedia. Some examples of ffmpeg use cases with VA-API / Mesa Multimedia are shown below:
- Hardware Decode:
- ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi
- Hardware Encode:
- ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i in.mp4 -vf hwupload,scale_vaapi=format=nv12 -c:v h264_vaapi out.mp4
- Hardware Transcode:
- ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel vaapi - hwaccel_output_format vaapi -i in.mp4 -c:v hevc_vaapi out.mp4
Please feel free to direct any questions or comments to the AMD Online Service Request.
Fixed Issues
- Resolved an issue where display corruption intermittently occurred in multi-GPU configuration involving AMD Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot cards on Ubuntu 24.04. The problem was specifically observed in installations with the --usecase=workstation option and did not occur with the --usecase=graphics option.
AMD Linux GPU Drivers Guidelines
AMD Linux GPU drivers are open source and integrated into popular Linux distributions (some of them are listed at Compatible 64-bit Operating Systems). For many use cases, AMD recommends using AMD GPU Linux drivers available from Linux distributions. Some of these use cases are described below:
- Using AMD APU products with any popular and up-to-date Linux distribution.
- Using AMD discrete GPU products that are well supported by a popular Linux distribution.
- Using a notebook or desktop PC pre-loaded with Linux and/or certified by a Linux distribution vendor.
- Using a Linux distribution that is not compatible with Radeon Software for Linux such as:
- Fedora 42
- Pop!_OS
- Linux Mint 22
- Arch Linux
When using a very recent AMD discrete GPU that is not yet well supported by recent versions of Linux distributions, AMD recommends the most recent release of Radeon Software for Linux. Many users find it convenient to migrate to AMD GPU Linux drivers available from Linux distributions once they've been updated to include support for the latest AMD GPU products. |
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