I upgraded my trusty old GTX1060 to a RX7600XT. Everything works as it should except for blender. It doesn’t find the GPU as a rendering device.

Since the driver manager states “No drivers needed” and when running glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version" in the terminal, it outputs OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1 I figured I had all important drivers installed.

I don’t know why blender won’t find the GPU. Do you have any advice for a newbie?

sys specs

Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon Linux Kernel 6.8.0-53-generic CPU Ryzen 7 5800x GPU RX7600XT MoBo MSI B550A-Pro RAM 16 GB @3600mHz

Solution: Didn’t have ROCm installed. For anyone with the same issue, here is a link to the guide I used. I don’t know if these were necessary for the solution, but here are the amd drivers, just in case ;)

  • @Xolipher@lemmy.caEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    What version of Blender do you have running? You can try to add yourself to the video and render group which may get it working. In terminal:

    sudo usermod -a -G video [user] 
sudo usermod -a -G render [user]