Graphic card for OpenBSD
reddit / BSD

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throwawaycode0221 · 2019-04-02 21:52

I currently have a amd 580 and would like to try switching my desktop
to OpenBSD.  I have it on my laptop,  but in the case of the 580,
OpenBSD obviously doesn't support such a card.

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I know a lot of the 2xx, 3xx series and on were basically just reboots
of the 7xxx series,  and OpenBSD has pretty good support for the 7xxx
series.  Does that mean I can use something like a R7 260/360 with
radeondrm support?  I'd ideally still like to have 3d accel.
Otherwise I suppose I'll have to look into getting a 7xxx card.  Just
wondering if anyone knew about this before I do.

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thfrw · 2019-04-02 23:49

it's always dangerous to make predictions, but a lot of work was done
on Radeon recently and supports for newer generation GPUs **may** be
coming sooner rather than later. That said, I use an HD 7570 which is
pre-GCN and works largely without problems.

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throwawaycode0221 · 2019-04-03 00:08

I was under the impression that AMDGPU wasn't going to be added to
OpenBSD via [https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-
misc&m=152465462030464&w=2](https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-
misc&m=152465462030464&w=2)

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Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can clear this up,  but I
would assume that means everything GCN3 and up is in an non-determined
state.  As I don't see myself doing any GPU intense gaming on OpenBSD
I figured going with an older gpu would just make things easier.

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thfrw · 2019-04-03 03:33

well, I can only speculate, but some AMDGPU-related things are in the
works... The graphics stack is complicated, and I'm not sure if
everything will be in place for acceleration on Polaris/Vega.

I think the most powerful cards that are generally well-supported are
HD 6850/70 and 6950/70. I use an HD7570 that works for most of my
needs.