Hardware

2D/3D Acceleration with Catalyst Only

* All RadeonHD 7000-series (aka Southern Islands) and RadeonHD 8000-series (aka Sea Islands) chips

Note: Some RadeonHD 7000/8000 cards are actually rebadged variants of older cards and may support open-source acceleration Note2: You will need a linux kernel >= 3.4 for basic open-source modesetting support

Officially Supported (Catalyst & Open Source)

The following hardware is supported by current releases of the Catalyst/fglrx driver. Open source drivers will work as well. Note that RadeonHD 6xx0 chips will need kernel 2.6.38 for open-source mode-setting, xf86-video-ati/radeon 6.14.0 for 2D acceleration (EXA/Xv), and Mesa 7.11 for 3D acceleration.

* CEDAR       Radeon HD 5450
* REDWOOD     Radeon HD 5550/5570/5670
* JUNIPER     Radeon HD 5730/5750/5770
* CYPRESS     Radeon HD 5830/5850/5870
* HEMLOCK     Radeon HD 5970
* PALM        Radeon HD 6250/6310 
* SUMO,SUMO2  Radeon HD 6370/6380/6400/6410/6480/6520/6530/6550/6620
* CAICOS      Radeon HD 6430/6450/6470/6490
* TURKS       Radeon HD 6570/6670
* JUNIPER     Radeon HD 6750/6770
* BARTS LE    Radeon HD 6790
* BARTS       Radeon HD 6850/6870
* CAYMAN      Radeon HD 6950/6970  (requires Catalyst 11.4b; open-source requires kernel 2.6.39)
* ANTILLES    Radeon HD 6990

Older RadeonHD (Catalyst Legacy 13.1 & Open Source)

ATI/AMD initially dropped Catalyst support for these cards in the regular Catalyst 12-6. These cards are now supported with the later released Catalyst 13-1 legacy, but you MUST use a kernel <= 3.4 and Xserver <= 1.12. For example, you can use Catalyst 13-1 legacy if you're running less than Ubuntu 12.04 or Debian Squeeze/6.0. Open source support is good and 3D is still improving.

* R600        Radeon HD 2900
* RV610/RV630 Radeon HD 2400/2600, 3000/3100/3200/3300, M71, M72, M74, M76
* RV620       Radeon HD 3450/3470, M82  
* RV635       Radeon HD 3650/3670, M86
* RV670       Radeon HD 3850/3870, M88
* RS780       Radeon HD 3100/3200/3300
* RS880       Radeon HD 4100/4200/4290
* RV710       Radeon HD 4350/4550/5145/530v/545v, M92
* RV730       Radeon HD 4650/4670/5165/550v/560v/565v, M96, M96-XT
* RV770       Radeon HD 4850/4870, M97, M98

Radeon (Catalyst <= 9.3 & Open Source)

ATI/AMD dropped Catalyst support for these cards in Catalyst 9-4. These cards are supported with the legacy ATI 9-3 Catalyst release, but you MUST use a kernel <= 2.6.28 and Xserver <= 1.5. For example, you can use Catalyst 9-3 if you're running Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian Lenny/5.0. Open source support is good and 3D is still improving.

* RS400/RS480 Radeon XPRESS 200(M)/1100 IGP
* R300        Radeon 9700PRO/9700/9500PRO/9500/9600TX
* R350        Radeon 9800PRO/9800SE/9800
* R360        Radeon 9800XT
* RV350       Radeon 9600PRO/9600SE/9600/9550, M10/M11
* RV360       Radeon 9600XT
* RV370       Radeon X300, M22
* RV380       Radeon X600, M24
* RV410       Radeon X700, M26 PCIE
* R420        Radeon X800 AGP
* R423/R430   Radeon X800, M28 PCIE
* R480/R481   Radeon X850 PCIE/AGP
* RS482       Radeon (Xpress) 200
* RV505       Radeon X1300, M52, M62
* RV515/RV550 Radeon X1400/X2100/X2300, M54, M64, All-In-Wonder 2006
* RV516       Radeon X1500
* R520        Radeon X1800, M58
* RV530/RV560 Radeon X1600/X1650/X1700/X2500, M56, M66
* RV570/R580  Radeon X1900/X1950, M68
* RS600/RS690 Radeon (Xpress) X1200/X1250/X1270
* RS740       Radeon (Xpress) 2100
* FireGL T2 (4154)
* FireGL V3100 (5B64)
* FireGL V3200 (3E54)
* FireGL V3300 (5E49)
* FireGL V5000 (5E48)
* FireGL V5100 (5551)
* FireGL V7100 (5550)
* FireGL X1 (4E47)
* FireGL X2-256/X2-256t (4E4B)
* FireGL X3-256 (4A4D)
* FireGL Z1 (4147)

Radeon Legacy (Open Source)

These cards are no longer actively supported by AMD as of the 8.28.8 fglrx driver. Unless you run an ancient distro, using the open source drivers is your only option.

* R100        Radeon 7200
* RV100       Radeon 7000(VE), M6, RN50/ES1000
* RS100       Radeon IGP320(M)
* RV200       Radeon 7500, M7, FireGL 7800
* RS200       Radeon IGP330(M)/IGP340(M)
* RS250       Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP
* R200        Radeon 8500, 9100, FireGL 8800/8700
* RV250       Radeon 9000PRO/9000, M9
* RV280       Radeon 9200PRO/9200/9200SE/9250, M9+
* RS300       Radeon 9100 IGP
* RS350       Radeon 9200 IGP