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Although AMD strongly considered making the functional part of the ATI drivers "open source", [18] before the merger with AMD, ATI had no plans to release their graphics drivers as free software: Proprietary, patented optimizations are part of the value we provide to our customers and we have no plans to release these drivers to open source.
The main AMD GPU software stacks are fully supported on Linux: GPUOpen for graphics, and ROCm for compute. GPUOpen is most often merely a supplement, for software utilities, to the free Mesa software stack that is widely distributed and available by default on most Linux distributions.
ATI Avivo is a set of hardware and low level software features present on the ATI Radeon R520 family of GPUs and all later ATI Radeon products. ATI Avivo was designed to offload video decoding, encoding, and post-processing from a computer's CPU to a compatible GPU.
Non-hardware-related vendors may also assist free graphics initiatives. Red Hat has two full-time employees (David Airlie and Jérôme Glisse) working on Radeon software, [102] and the Fedora Project sponsors a Fedora Graphics Test Week event before the launch of their new Linux distribution versions to test free graphics drivers. [103]
a special and distinct 2D graphics device driver for X.Org Server, which is finally about to be replaced by Glamor; The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics driver supports most of the features implemented into the Radeon line of GPUs. [34] They are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD. [35]
On 24 November 2015, AMD released a new version of their graphics driver following the formation of the Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) to provide extensive software support for their graphics cards. This driver, labelled Radeon Software Crimson Edition, overhauls the UI with Qt , resulting in better responsiveness from a design and system ...
Launch – Date of release for the GPU. Architecture – The microarchitecture used by the GPU. Fab – Fabrication process. Average feature size of components of the GPU. Transistors – Number of transistors on the die. Die size – Physical surface area of the die. Core config – The layout of the graphics pipeline, in terms of functional ...
The Omega ATI driver is based on ATI's Catalyst drivers. The driver is particularly notable for resolving 3D compatibility problems affecting past versions of the ATI drivers (versions 7.8-7.12) and some AGP cards. The driver includes various third-party utilities including 'MultiRes' (from EnTech Taiwan) and ATI Tray Tools tweaking utility.