I have an AMD Radeon Pro W7700 that I'm planning on testing in an Ampere workstation.
This card runs great on the Pi 5, using @Coreforge's branch we started working on in #222
Two massive features of this card:
- Support for full DisplayPort 2.1 (for 8K at up to 144 Hz), or 16K at 60 Hz (lol)
- Built-in AV1 hardware encode/decode
It remains to be seen how many bits of the driver we can get running on this card.
Current steps to get this card working with Pi OS Bookworm
Last updated: 2025-09-22
- Clone the Raspberry Pi Linux kernel patching the default Raspberry Pi
rpi-6.15.y kernel tree with this patch.
- Before compiling the kernel, run
make menuconfig and select the options:
1. Kernel Features > Page Size > 4 KB (for Box86 compatibility)
4. Device Drivers > Graphics support > AMD GPU (optionally SI/CIK support too)
- Recompile the kernel following Raspberry Pi's instructions
- Install the AMD firmware:
sudo apt install -y firmware-amd-graphics
- Reboot the Pi with the card attached using an appropriate PCIe riser and external ATX power supply.
Confirm everything is working by plugging a monitor into the graphics card; then confirm the card's GPU is in use by running glxinfo -B (part of the mesa-utils package), for example:
$ DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: AMD (0x1002)
Device: AMD Radeon Pro W7700 (gfx1101, LLVM 15.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.6.60-v8-AMDGPU+) (0x7470)
Version: 23.2.1
Accelerated: yes
Video memory: 15360MB
...
(Prepend DISPLAY=:0 if running commands over SSH.)
Hardware video transcoding support
If you would like to enable hardware transcoding, you need to install the Mesa VAAPI drivers:
sudo apt install mesa-va-drivers vainfo
Then you should be able to see the VAAPI info, and apps like OBS (sudo apt install obs-studio) should be able to use the hardware transcoding instead of x264 on the CPU. Confirm it's working with vainfo:
pi@pi5-pcie:~ $ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.17 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 23.2.1-1~bpo12+rpt3 for AMD Radeon Pro W7700 (gfx1101, LLVM 15.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.6.60-v8-AMDGPU+)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileAV1Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileAV1Profile0 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
I have an AMD Radeon Pro W7700 that I'm planning on testing in an Ampere workstation.
This card runs great on the Pi 5, using @Coreforge's branch we started working on in #222
Two massive features of this card:
It remains to be seen how many bits of the driver we can get running on this card.
Current steps to get this card working with Pi OS Bookworm
Last updated: 2025-09-22
rpi-6.15.ykernel tree with this patch.make menuconfigand select the options:1. Kernel Features > Page Size > 4 KB (for Box86 compatibility)
4. Device Drivers > Graphics support > AMD GPU (optionally SI/CIK support too)
sudo apt install -y firmware-amd-graphicsConfirm everything is working by plugging a monitor into the graphics card; then confirm the card's GPU is in use by running
glxinfo -B(part of themesa-utilspackage), for example:(Prepend
DISPLAY=:0if running commands over SSH.)Hardware video transcoding support
If you would like to enable hardware transcoding, you need to install the Mesa VAAPI drivers:
Then you should be able to see the VAAPI info, and apps like OBS (
sudo apt install obs-studio) should be able to use the hardware transcoding instead ofx264on the CPU. Confirm it's working withvainfo: