Just reporting about AMDGPU-PRO v17.50 drivers.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspxhttp://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Installation-Instructions-for-amdgpu-Graphics-Stacks.aspxThe driver architecture seems to have evolved, and some option seems to install new opensource components (from Vulkan, ROCm OpenCL libs -
Phoronix make article on that), but you can install legacy version.
I've installed with deprecated option on latest Ubuntu LTS update 16.04.3, kernel 4.10
./amdgpu-pro-install -y --compute
(in fact: ./amdgpu-pro-install -y --headless --opencl=legacy )
It finally worked nice, with no change in performance
however big warning: do clean uninstall before. I had initially installed the full amdgpu-pro with X11, then the --compute version headless, and when I installed v17.50 in compute mode, it could not compile the driver, and there was broken dependencies in apt-get... finally I hade to use dpkg --purge on all amdgpu related components, especially X11 libs, opencl libs...
Anyway, I see no improvement. is there some improvement to expect with v17.50 ? I use -mode 1 -asm 2 -etha 1 fro RX480/580... is there some prefered settings today ?
best regards.