Radeon™ Software for Linux® 19.50 Release Notes

Release Date: December 19th 2019

This article provides information on the latest version of Radeon™ Software for Linux®.

Radeon™ Software for Linux® 19.50 Highlights

• Introducing support for RHEL 8.1/7.7 and CentOS 8.1/7.7
• Full support for the AMD Radeon™ RX 5500 XT

Package Contents

• AMDGPU All-Open and AMDGPU-Pro Driver

Radeon™ Software for Linux® can be downloaded from the following links:

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• Radeon™ Software for Linux® version 19.50 for Ubuntu 18.04.3
• Radeon™ Software for Linux® version 19.50 for RHEL 8.1 / CentOS 8.1
• Radeon™ Software for Linux® version 19.50 for RHEL 7.7 / CentOS 7.7
• Radeon™ Software for Linux® version 19.50 for SLED/SLES 15 SP1

Installing Radeon™ Software for Linux®

For detailed instructions on how to install or uninstall Radeon™ Software for Linux®, please refer to our readthedocs.io documentation:

• Radeon™ Software for Linux® installation instructions

You can also find these instructions by extracting the downloaded archive, and opening /doc/index.html in your browser.

To use the Vulkan driver in this stack, Vulkan SDK version v1.1.121.1 needs to be installed. The SDK can be downloaded from: https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home

AMD Radeon™ Product Family Compatibility

Radeon™ Software for Linux® is compatible with the following AMD products.

Compatible 64-bit Operating Systems

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.7
• CentOS 8.1
• CentOS 7.7
• Ubuntu 18.04.3
• SLED/SLES 15 SP1

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