I think in this specific case the driver is not installed or configured
correctly. The system info shows it's not using the AMDGPU driver for
OpenGL, but Mesa. The RX 480 is certainly new enough to support OpenSubdiv.

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey....@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Blender requires decent OpenGL for drawing OpenSubdiv meshes. This is the
> only way to get decent speedups.
>
> But it's not all that sad as it sounds! In Blender 2.8 we've switched to
> OpenGL core profile, which has higher OpenGL support than the compatibility
> profile we use in 2.78/2.79. Unfortunately, we did not hook up OpenSubdiv
> in 2.8 branch yet.
>
> So with 2.8 OpenSubdiv support will come to more hardware (including Apple
> macOS) with more features (like adaptive subdivisions).
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Jefferson Rausseo <
> jeffersonraus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to use Opensubdiv with CPU only? For example with OpenMP.
> >
> > 2017-08-07 12:24 GMT-04:00 Sergey Sharybin <sergey....@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Thanks for the file. This clarifies a lots.
> > >
> > > Your driver only provides OpenGL 3.0, for which we need the following
> > > extensions:
> > >
> > > - uniform_buffer_object
> > > - geometry_shader4
> > > - texture_buffer_object
> > >
> > > The latter two are not supported by the driver you're using (you can
> see
> > > that in the `extensions` section of the system-info).
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Jefferson Rausseo <
> > > jeffersonraus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > system-info.txt:
> > > > http://www.pasteall.org/501754/text
> > > >
> > > > 2017-08-07 11:38 GMT-04:00 Sergey Sharybin <sergey....@gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Please show your system-info.txt generated via Help -> Save System
> > Info
> > > > > (use hastebin.com or pasteall.org, that file will be quite long).
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Jefferson Rausseo <
> > > > > jeffersonraus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am a Blender user and I have some problems to use Opensubdiv
> with
> > > my
> > > > > AMD
> > > > > > RX 480:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My computer:
> > > > > > Linux: Manjaro 64bits 17.0
> > > > > > Kernel: 4.12
> > > > > > GPU: AMD RX 480 8Gb
> > > > > > CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
> > > > > > Driver: amdgpu (Free) + opencl-amd (not free)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Blender: 2.79 RC1 Official build
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Screenshot:
> > > > > > https://pasteboard.co/GEyDD10.png
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do I need to install some package depends?
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> > > > >
> > > > >
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