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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 specsLinux 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 ;)

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[–] Xolipher@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days 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] 
[–] folekaule@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I had this issue and it only worked when I downloaded it from the website and ran it, not from steam or flatpak. I don't have it installed anymore and I'm not sure what the underlying issue was, but you can try that.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Do you have it installed via flatpack/snap? IIRC flatpack/snap doesn't support AMD Hip.

Grab the tarball from here and give that a shot.

Had it installed via steam, gave it a shot, sadly didn't work. But thanks still :D

[–] fauntleroy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe you have to install the proprietary driver including the OpenCL stack. See https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install-installing.html