On 11/14/25 13:07, Timur Kristóf wrote: > Changed in v2 of the patch series: > Updated documentation in Kconfig file. > > Now that the DC analog connector support and VCE1 support > landed, amdgpu is at feature parity with the old radeon > driver on SI and CIK dedicated GPUs. > > Let's enable amdgpu by default on SI and CIK dedicated GPUs. > > Why? > > Compared to the old radeon driver, amdgpu offers better > performance, more display features through DC, > as well as support for Vulkan 1.3 through RADV. > (Note, although the hardware is 10 years old, the R9 290 > still appears in the Steam hardware survey for Linux > at a modest 0.25%.) > > What can these GPUs actually do on amdgpu? > > Hawaii (eg. R9 390X) can even play modern games such as > Baldur's Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077 and gives a decent user > experience considering the age of the hardware. > Tahiti and Pitcairn can play some modern games, albeit > at lower resolutions and lower frame rates. They are > mainly held back by a low amount of VRAM (2~3 GiB). > The other SI and CIK "gaming" GPUs are mainly useful > for playing games from their era (the mid-2010s) > or less demanding games in general. > > CIK dedicated GPUs are the following: > > Hawaii (2013~2015): > Radeon R9 290 and 390 series > Bonaire (2013~2016): > Radeon HD 7790/8870 > Radeon R7 260/360/450, RX 455 > FirePro W5100 > various mobile GPUs > > SI dedicated GPUs are the following: > > Tahiti (2012~2014): > Radeon HD 7870 XT, 7950, 7970, 7990, 8950, 8970, 8990 > Radeon R9 280, 280X > FirePro W8000, W9000, D500, D700, S9000, S9050, S10000 > Pitcairn (2012~2015): > Radeon HD 7850, 7870, 7970M, 8870, 8970M > Radeon R9 265, 270/370 series, M290X, M390 > FirePro W5000, W7000, D300, R5000, S7000 > Cape Verde (2012~2016): > Radeon HD 7730, 7750, 7770, 8730, 8760 > Radeon R7 250E, 250X, 350, 450 > FirePro W600, W4100, M4000, M6000 > Oland (2013~2019): > Radeon HD 8570, 8670 > Radeon R5 240, 250, 330, 340, 350, 430, 520, 610 > FirePro W2100 > various mobile GPUs > Hainan (2013~2016): > various mobile GPUs
Reviewed-by: Christian König <[email protected]> for the entire series. I think Alex already merged the CIK switch, but that should be trivial to resolve. Thanks, Christian. > > Timur Kristóf (4): > drm/radeon: Refactor how SI and CIK support is determined > drm/amdgpu: Refactor how SI and CIK support is determined > drm/amdgpu: Use amdgpu by default on CIK dedicated GPUs (v2) > drm/amdgpu: Use amdgpu by default on SI dedicated GPUs (v2) > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig | 24 ++-- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 160 ++++++++++++++---------- > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c | 81 +++++++----- > 3 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-) >
