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
