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I have a private workstation that uses Ubuntu 14.04 and has an AMD FirePro W7000 graphics card installed. AMD released a Catalyst driver update for all GCN-based cards that upgrades their OpenCL capability to 2.0.

The way I understand it, the proprietary AMD fglrx driver is no longer available in Ubuntu 16.04. What will happen to the OpenCL 2.0 capability of my graphics card if I upgrade my system?

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If you have another spare graphics card to run the X desktop, or you run in headless mode, you can try this solution: Experimental OpenCL driver for Ubuntu 16.04

Basically, this is a OpenCL-only fglrx driver and it does not conflict with other graphics drivers. You can install a low-end GPU for desktop only, and use your FirePro just for compute. In my case I have a HD 6450 for X desktop (using the opensource radeon driver) and a R9 280X for OpenCL, and it works flawlessly.

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