

Go to Display adapters and locate your AMD Radeon graphics card.Go to the Start search bar and look up Device Manager.Once you’ve identified that, this next bit should be easy! You can identify your Radeon graphics card by its box, label or through the PC via your operating system. To manually update your graphics drivers, you’ll need to identify the exact model of graphics card that you have. How to manually update your AMD graphics drivers However, some people prefer to do it manually so that they know exactly what you’re installing onto your driver. Click Search automatically for updated driver software and follow the on-screen instructions.Īs an alternative solution, it’s also possible to update your drivers manually.Right-click your graphics card select Update Driver.Go to Display adapters, then locate your AMD Radeon graphics card.

Look up Device Manager via the search bar on your PC.If you do need the proprietary driver and you use the right version of Ubuntu, you'll have to install it manually as explained in the guide by If at any point you have to upgrade your OS, you'll have to manually uninstall the driver.How to update AMD Radeon graphics drivers So, unless you really need features that are only managed by AMDGPU-PRO, I'd suggest you to stick with Mesa. With Ubuntu (and variants), it only supports version 16.04, and more specifically 16.04.3 (either installed from scratch or updated from a previous 16.04.x version through the Hardware Enablement Stack). It only supports specific versions of distros, as it relies on specific versions of the kernel and X server.It only covers a limited list of (newer) GPU models.If you really want to use the proprietary driver from AMD (AMDGPU-PRO), you have to know that: It has made a lot of progress over the years and now has very good performances. For AMD GPUs on recent distros, it's usually better to just use Mesa, the open source driver that is installed and used by default.
