For a latest/newer Radeon GPU, how to check if UM use the right driver? Not the latest version of driver, but the best one for ingame performance.
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How about inxi -Gxxx?
P.S: You may also want to see the output of glxinfo | grep 'renderer string'.
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Your question is too ambiguous to be answered clearly.
However the way I understand it: this is possibly what you're looking for:
$ clinfo | grep Driver
By "if UM use the right driver", well, if your system works and there is something displayed when typing dpkg -l | grep Radeon you're pretty much set.
Now if you were curious on how to install any latest than what UM offers you would check at https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/linux-drivers.html
Hope this helps.
xo
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I agree, my demand is too ambiguous!
It's about performance ingame. Many release of driver let works fine to display, but ingame perf may differ. I want to know what release of driver give best perf ingame. I edited my demand.
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For games, the performance of the 'in kernel' AMDGPU driver is much better than the proprietary AMD drivers.
The open source drivers for AMD hardware are written by AMD itself and are optimized for gaming and included in the kerneltree.
The proprietary AMD drivers are meant to be used for OpenCL and are not optimized for gaming.
So if you want to have the highest performance, don't install the proprietary AMD drivers.
This also means that if you absolutely want a certain driver version, you'll have to find the containing kernelversion and stick with it or patch and recompile the kernel yourself.
Again, all proprietary AMD drivers are slower w.r.t. gaming than the AMD open source drivers.
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Yep, I knew.
I think, I want to know which release version perform better for in-game.
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Best you can do is try different kernels, compare and see which one performs best.
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