I am beginner in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & also in Linux as well, I want to install graphics drivers, but I don't know how can I do it.
My graphic card details is: "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330] [1002:6660] (rev 83)"
Can I install it in Ubuntu?
As of Ubuntu 16.04, opensource radeon or amdgpu drivers are included depending on the GCN Version. This is enough for most tasks including light gaming. However it is also possible to install amdgpu-pro which is a proprietary driver from the amd downloads page (http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-GPU-PRO-Linux-Beta-Driver%E2%80%93Release-Notes.aspx). But remember that this is still in beta and may break your system like it did mine which had a Radeon 8670M in which case an uninstall script is included with the installation files. This should be accessible via recovery in the advanced options in the grub menu and will uninstall the amdgpu-pro driver.
Download old drivers. It's no use to download the latest one, because the kernel will say no thanks.
wget --referer https://www.amd.com/es/support https://drivers.amd.com/drivers/linux/amdgpu-pro-18.40-673869-ubuntu-16.04.tar.xz
Extract the file tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-18.40-673869-ubuntu-16.04.tar.xz
Install using the most common command: ./amdgpu-pro-install -y
In my case I had Nvidia + Radeon, so it was more difficult indeed, but for Nvidia it was easy, just delete old drivers and reinstall with sudo apt-get install nvidia-455
The results of clinfo are here:
root@nvidia:/home/nvidia# clinfo
Number of platforms 2
Platform Name NVIDIA CUDA
Platform Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Platform Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 11.2.109
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_icd cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_nv_compiler_options cl_nv_device_attribute_query cl_nv_pragma_unroll cl_nv_copy_opts cl_nv_create_buffer cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_device_uuid
Platform Extensions function suffix NV
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Platform Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Version OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2117.10)
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices
Platform Extensions function suffix AMD
Platform Name NVIDIA CUDA
Number of devices 3
Device Name GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Device Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Device Vendor ID 0x10de
Device Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA
Driver Version 460.32.03
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 1.2
Device Type GPU
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Topology (NV) PCI-E, 04:00.0
Max compute units 6
Max clock frequency 1506MHz
Compute Capability (NV) 6.1
Device Partition (core)
Max number of sub-devices 1
Supported partition types None
Max work item dimensions 3
Max work item sizes 1024x1024x64
Max work group size 1024
Preferred work group size multiple 32
Warp size (NV) 32
Preferred / native vector sizes
char 1 / 1
short 1 / 1
int 1 / 1
long 1 / 1
half 0 / 0 (n/a)
float 1 / 1
double 1 / 1 (cl_khr_fp64)
Half-precision Floating-point support (n/a)
Single-precision Floating-point support (core)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations Yes
Double-precision Floating-point support (cl_khr_fp64)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations No
Address bits 64, Little-Endian
Global memory size 4236312576 (3.945GiB)
Error Correction support No
Max memory allocation 1059078144 (1010MiB)
Unified memory for Host and Device No
Integrated memory (NV) No
Minimum alignment for any data type 128 bytes
Alignment of base address 4096 bits (512 bytes)
Global Memory cache type Read/Write
Global Memory cache size 294912
Global Memory cache line 128 bytes
Image support Yes
Max number of samplers per kernel 32
Max size for 1D images from buffer 268435456 pixels
Max 1D or 2D image array size 2048 images
Max 2D image size 16384x32768 pixels
Max 3D image size 16384x16384x16384 pixels
Max number of read image args 256
Max number of write image args 16
Local memory type Local
Local memory size 49152 (48KiB)
Registers per block (NV) 65536
Max constant buffer size 65536 (64KiB)
Max number of constant args 9
Max size of kernel argument 4352 (4.25KiB)
Queue properties
Out-of-order execution Yes
Profiling Yes
Prefer user sync for interop No
Profiling timer resolution 1000ns
Execution capabilities
Run OpenCL kernels Yes
Run native kernels No
Kernel execution timeout (NV) No
Concurrent copy and kernel execution (NV) Yes
Number of async copy engines 2
printf() buffer size 1048576 (1024KiB)
Built-in kernels
Device Available Yes
Compiler Available Yes
Linker Available Yes
Device Extensions cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_icd cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_nv_compiler_options cl_nv_device_attribute_query cl_nv_pragma_unroll cl_nv_copy_opts cl_nv_create_buffer cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_device_uuid
Device Name GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Device Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Device Vendor ID 0x10de
Device Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA
Driver Version 460.32.03
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 1.2
Device Type GPU
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Topology (NV) PCI-E, 05:00.0
Max compute units 6
Max clock frequency 1392MHz
Compute Capability (NV) 6.1
Device Partition (core)
Max number of sub-devices 1
Supported partition types None
Max work item dimensions 3
Max work item sizes 1024x1024x64
Max work group size 1024
Preferred work group size multiple 32
Warp size (NV) 32
