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Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux

Summary by phoronix.com
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. More recently he finished AMDGPU improvements for Kaveri and…
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phoronix.com broke the news on Sunday, April 19, 2026.
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