Supported AMD dGPUs & APUs - ZFEbHVUE/Batocera-CRT-Script GitHub Wiki

AMD dGPUs Supporting Interlaced Output via the Linux `amdgpu` Driver

⚠️ What About Older Cards like the HD 5450?

You might notice some older AMD cards (like the HD 5450, HD 6450, etc.) are not listed here.

That’s because this list only includes cards using the modern amdgpu driver, which supports Vulkan and receives ongoing kernel support.

💡 But don’t worry!
Older AMD GPUs still work fine with 15kHz CRT output using the legacy radeon driver — which is still available and compatible.

✅ These older GPUs still support:

Interlaced video modes
CRT output
OpenGL-based rendering only

❌ These GPUs do not support the Vulkan API, so they can’t benefit from modern Vulkan-based emulators or features like DXVK — a translation layer used by Proton and Wine to run many Direct3D games.
This means some newer games or emulators relying on Vulkan won't work or will have reduced performance.

➡️ We chose not to list them here to avoid confusion, but they are not obsolete — just better suited for lightweight CRT setups where OpenGL is sufficient.

❌ Excluded dGPUs – Sea Islands (GCN 2.x / DCE 8.x)

These GPUs are based on the Sea Islands architecture (GCN 2.x) and do not support interlaced video output under the amdgpu driver, despite the hardware being GCN-class. Interlace modes fail to activate or are not exposed at all.

Known Unsupported Chips and Products:

Bonaire – Radeon HD 7790, R7 260, R7 260X
Hawaii – Radeon R9 290, 290X, 295X2, R9 390, 390X
Mullins / Kabini / Kaveri (APU-class, listed above)
FirePro (Sea Islands variants):
- FirePro W8100
- FirePro W9100
- FirePro S9000
- FirePro S9150
- FirePro S9170

🛑 Note: These GPUs use DCE 8.x display engines which are known to lack interlace support via amdgpu, even though they are sometimes loadable using overrides or specific kernel options.

📊 Interlace Support Summary – Sea Islands dGPUs

GPU Name	Codename	GCN Gen	Display Engine	`amdgpu` Loadable	Interlace Support	Status
Radeon HD 7790	Bonaire	GCN 2.0	DCE 8.0	⚠️ Override?	❌ Unsupported	✅ Exclude
Radeon R7 260/260X	Bonaire	GCN 2.0	DCE 8.0	⚠️ Override?	❌ Unsupported	✅ Exclude
Radeon R9 290/290X	Hawaii	GCN 2.0	DCE 8.1	⚠️ Override?	❌ Unsupported	✅ Exclude
Radeon R9 390/390X	Hawaii	GCN 2.0	DCE 8.1	✅ (rebrand)	❌ Unsupported	✅ Exclude
FirePro W8100/W9100	Hawaii	GCN 2.0	DCE 8.x	⚠️ Partial?	❌ Unsupported	✅ Exclude
FirePro S9000+	Sea Isl.	GCN 2.0	DCE 8.x	⚠️ Partial?	❌ Unsupported	✅ Exclude

They are technically supported, but only with the older radeon driver, which does allow interlaced output. However, using the radeon driver means you will lose newer features like Vulkan support.

Important:
Batocera automatically forces all dGPUs that support the amdgpu driver to use it at boot. This behavior comes from the islands.list and the S05amd-check script during boot.

To force Batocera to use the radeon driver instead (necessary for interlaced output with these Sea Islands GPUs), you must disable this check in your boot/batocera-boot.conf:

## Use the amdgpu Mesa driver over the radeon driver if supported.
## Set to false to disable this if needed.
amdgpu=false

✅ Confirmed Interlace Support

🔎 Scope: Discrete GPUs only (no APUs), including OEM, PRO, FirePro, Embedded

🟣 GCN 1.x – Southern Islands (DCE 6.x)

Radeon HD 7730/7750/7770
Radeon HD 7850/7870
Radeon HD 7950/7970 / 7990
Radeon R7 240/250/250X
Radeon R7 265
Radeon R7 370
Radeon R9 270/270X
Radeon R9 280/280X
Radeon R9 370/370X
Radeon R7 340/350/350X
Radeon R5 240 / R5 430 / R5 435
Radeon 520 (Oland variant)
FirePro D300 / D500 / D700
FirePro W600 / W5000 / W7000 / W8000 / W9000
FirePro S4000X
FirePro S7000 / S9000 / S10000
Embedded Radeon E8860

✅ All confirmed via amdgpu (GCN 1.0)

🔵 GCN 3.x – Volcanic Islands (DCE 10/11)

Radeon R9 285 / 380 / 380X
Radeon R9 Fury / Fury X / Nano
Radeon Pro Duo (2016)
FirePro W7100
FirePro S7150 / S7150 ×2
FirePro S7100X
Embedded Radeon E8950

✅ Interlace supported (Tonga/Fiji-based)
❌ GCN 2.x (Sea Islands) excluded

🟢 Polaris – GCN 4.x / Arctic Islands

Radeon RX 460 / 470 / 480
Radeon RX 550 / 560 / 570 / 580 / 590
Radeon RX 540 / 550X / 540X
Radeon 530 / 535 / 520 (Polaris variant)
FirePro S9170
Radeon Pro WX 3100 / 3200 / 4100 / 5100 / 7100
Embedded Radeon E9174 / E9260 / E9550 / E9560 / E9170

✅ Full interlace support across all Polaris dGPUs

🔴 Vega – GCN 5.x

Radeon RX Vega 56 / 64
Radeon VII
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Radeon Pro WX 8200 / WX 9100
Radeon Pro V340
Radeon Vega Mobile GL/XT

✅ Interlace supported (confirmed for Vega 10/20)

🟠 RDNA 1 – Navi 1x (DCN 2.0)

Radeon RX 5300 / 5300 XT / 5500 / 5500 XT
Radeon RX 5600 XT / 5700 / 5700 XT
Radeon Pro V3400
Radeon Pro W5500 / W5700
Apple Radeon Pro W5700X

✅ All RDNA1 GPUs support 1080i and standard interlace modes

🔵 RDNA 2 – Navi 2x (DCN 3.x)

Radeon RX 6400 / 6500 XT / 6600 / 6600 XT / 6650 XT
Radeon RX 6700 XT / 6750 XT / 6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT
Radeon Pro W6400 / W6600 / W6800
Radeon Pro V620
Apple Radeon Pro W6900X Duo

✅ All Navi 2x dGPUs confirmed with interlace support

🟣 RDNA 3 – Navi 3x (DCN 3.2+)

Radeon RX 7600 / 7700 XT / 7800 XT / 7900 XT / 7900 XTX
Radeon Pro W7500 / W7600 / W7800 / W7900

✅ Latest RDNA3 dGPUs support interlace via HDMI/DP

❌ APUs Without Interlace Support via `amdgpu`

These APUs are confirmed not to support interlaced output due to GPU or display controller limitations. Even if the amdgpu driver can load (with overrides), interlaced resolutions do not function correctly.

Llano (2011) – TeraScale 2
Trinity / Richland (2012–2013) – VLIW4 (TeraScale 3)
Kabini / Temash (2013) – Jaguar + GCN 1.0
Kaveri / Godavari (2014–2015) – GCN 1.1
Mullins / Beema (2014) – Puma + GCN 1.1
Carrizo-L (2015) – Puma+ + GCN 1.2

⚠️ APUs With Unconfirmed Interlace Support

These APUs may work with the amdgpu driver, but interlaced modes are unverified and not officially supported in arcade-focused Linux environments.

Bristol Ridge (2016) – Excavator + GCN 1.2
Mendocino (2022) – Zen 2 + RDNA 2

📊 Interlace Support Summary – Legacy and Unconfirmed APUs

APU Family	GPU Gen	`amdgpu` Driver	Interlace via amdgpu	Status
Llano	TeraScale	❌ `radeon` only	❌	✅ Exclude
Trinity/Richland	VLIW4	❌ `radeon` only	❌	✅ Exclude
Kabini/Temash	GCN 1.0	⚠️ Override?	❌	✅ Exclude
Kaveri/Godavari	GCN 1.1	⚠️ Override?	❌	✅ Exclude
Mullins/Beema	GCN 1.1	⚠️ Override?	❌	✅ Exclude
Carrizo-L	GCN 1.2	❌ `radeon` only	❌	✅ Exclude
Bristol Ridge	GCN 1.2	✅ `amdgpu`	❓ Not verified	⚠️ Unconfirmed
Mendocino	RDNA 2	✅ `amdgpu`	❓ Not verified	⚠️ Unconfirmed

✅ AMD APUs with Confirmed Interlace Support via `amdgpu`

This list contains hopefully all mobile, embedded, PRO, and OEM-only AMD APUs that support interlaced video output via the open-source amdgpu driver. Grouped by architecture and based on the GroovyArcade wiki, AMD specs, and community testing.

🧱 Carrizo / Stoney / Wani (GCN 3.x – DCE 10/11.x)

Excavator-based 6th/7th-gen mobile & desktop APUs (2016–2017)

AMD A12-9800 / 9800E — Desktop AM4
AMD A10-9700 / 9700E — Desktop AM4
AMD A8-9600 — Desktop AM4
AMD A6-9500 / 9500E / 9550 — Desktop AM4
AMD A6-9400 — Desktop AM4 (OEM)
AMD FX-9800P / FX-9830P — Mobile FP4
AMD A12-9730P / A12-9700P — Mobile FP4
AMD A10-9630P / 9600P — Mobile FP4
AMD A9-9410 / A9-9430 — Mobile FP4
AMD A6-9210 — Mobile FP4
AMD E2-9000 — Mobile FP4
AMD A4-9120 / 9125 — Mobile FP4
PRO A10-9700B / A12-9800B — PRO OEM/Mobile

🧱 Raven Ridge (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 1.0)

First Zen APUs with Vega graphics (Ryzen 2000U/G, Athlon 200GE)

Desktop:

Ryzen 5 2400G / 2400GE
Ryzen 3 2200G / 2200GE
Athlon 200GE / 220GE / 240GE

Mobile:

Ryzen 3 2200U / 2300U
Ryzen 5 2500U / 2600U
Ryzen 7 2700U / 2800H
PRO 2300U / 2500U / 2700U

Embedded:

Ryzen Embedded V1202B / V1605B

🧱 Picasso (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 1.0)

12nm Zen+ refresh of Raven Ridge

Desktop:

Ryzen 3 3200G / 3200GE
Ryzen 5 3400G / 3400GE
Athlon 3000G
Athlon Gold 3150G / 3150GE
Athlon Silver 3050GE

Mobile:

Ryzen 3 3200U / 3300U
Ryzen 5 3500U / 3550H
Ryzen 7 3700U / 3750H
Athlon 300U
PRO 3300U / 3500U / 3700U

🧱 Renoir (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 2.1, Zen 2)

Ryzen 4000G/U/H APUs – first with DCN 2.1

Desktop:

Ryzen 3 4300G / 4300GE / PRO 4350G / GE
Ryzen 5 4600G / 4600GE / PRO 4650G / GE
Ryzen 7 4700G / 4700GE / PRO 4750G / GE

Mobile:

Ryzen 3 4300U
Ryzen 5 4500U / 4600U / 4600H
Ryzen 7 4700U / 4800U / 4800H / 4800HS
Ryzen 9 4900H / 4900HS
Ryzen 5 4400H

🧱 Lucienne (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 2.1, Zen 2 refresh)

Ryzen 5000U OEM refresh of Renoir

Ryzen 3 5300U
Ryzen 5 5500U
Ryzen 7 5700U
PRO 5340U / 5540U / 5740U

🧱 Cezanne (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 2.1, Zen 3)

Ryzen 5000G/U/H APUs with Zen 3 CPU

Desktop:

Ryzen 3 5300G / 5300GE / PRO 5350G / GE
Ryzen 5 5600G / 5600GE / PRO 5650G / GE
Ryzen 7 5700G / 5700GE / PRO 5750G / GE

Mobile:

Ryzen 3 5400U
Ryzen 5 5600U / 5600H / 5625U
Ryzen 7 5800U / 5800H / 5825U
Ryzen 9 5900HX / 5980HX / 5980HS / 5980U
PRO 5650U / 5850U

🧱 Phoenix (RDNA 3 – DCN 3.1.4, Zen 4)

Ryzen 7040 Series APUs with RDNA3 GPU (confirmed interlace support via GroovyArcade)

Ryzen 5 7540U / 7640U
Ryzen 7 7840U / 7840HS / 7840H
Ryzen 9 7940HS / 7940H
Ryzen Z1 / Z1 Extreme
PRO 7640U / 7840U / 7540U

🧱 Strix Point (RDNA 3.5 – DCN 3.2.x, Zen 5/5c hybrid)

Ryzen AI 300 Series APUs (confirmed interlace support via GroovyArcade)

Ryzen AI 7 360
Ryzen AI 9 365
Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

🧱 Phoenix / Hawk Point (RDNA 3 – DCN 3.1.4, Zen 4)

Ryzen 7040 / 8040 Series APUs with RDNA3 GPU (Radeon 780M/760M); confirmed interlace support via Calamity and Gentoo Wiki

Ryzen 5 7540U / 7640U
Ryzen 7 7840U / 7840HS / 7840H
Ryzen 9 7940HS / 7940H
Ryzen Z1 / Z1 Extreme
Ryzen 5 8540U
Ryzen 7 8640U
Ryzen 7 8845HS
Ryzen 9 8945HS
PRO 7640U / 7840U / 7540U
PRO 8640U / 8845HS

✅ All Phoenix and Hawk Point APUs confirmed interlace-capable via amdgpu driver (DCN 3.1+)

📚 Gentoo Wiki – AMDGPU Feature Support

📝 Notes

Interlace support
Output via DP only; no native analog on more modern cards where DVI-I/VGA is missing.
Embedded and OEM variants use the same silicon and thus inherit support.

📚 Sources:

Supported AMD dGPUs & APUs - ZFEbHVUE/Batocera-CRT-Script GitHub Wiki

AMD dGPUs Supporting Interlaced Output via the Linux amdgpu Driver

⚠️ What About Older Cards like the HD 5450?

❌ Excluded dGPUs – Sea Islands (GCN 2.x / DCE 8.x)

Known Unsupported Chips and Products:

📊 Interlace Support Summary – Sea Islands dGPUs

✅ Confirmed Interlace Support

🔎 Scope: Discrete GPUs only (no APUs), including OEM, PRO, FirePro, Embedded

🟣 GCN 1.x – Southern Islands (DCE 6.x)

🔵 GCN 3.x – Volcanic Islands (DCE 10/11)

🟢 Polaris – GCN 4.x / Arctic Islands

🔴 Vega – GCN 5.x

🟠 RDNA 1 – Navi 1x (DCN 2.0)

🔵 RDNA 2 – Navi 2x (DCN 3.x)

🟣 RDNA 3 – Navi 3x (DCN 3.2+)

❌ APUs Without Interlace Support via amdgpu

⚠️ APUs With Unconfirmed Interlace Support

📊 Interlace Support Summary – Legacy and Unconfirmed APUs

✅ AMD APUs with Confirmed Interlace Support via amdgpu

🧱 Carrizo / Stoney / Wani (GCN 3.x – DCE 10/11.x)

🧱 Raven Ridge (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 1.0)

Desktop:

Mobile:

Embedded:

🧱 Picasso (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 1.0)

Desktop:

Mobile:

🧱 Renoir (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 2.1, Zen 2)

Desktop:

Mobile:

🧱 Lucienne (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 2.1, Zen 2 refresh)

🧱 Cezanne (GCN 5.x Vega – DCN 2.1, Zen 3)

Desktop:

Mobile:

🧱 Phoenix (RDNA 3 – DCN 3.1.4, Zen 4)

🧱 Strix Point (RDNA 3.5 – DCN 3.2.x, Zen 5/5c hybrid)

🧱 Phoenix / Hawk Point (RDNA 3 – DCN 3.1.4, Zen 4)

📝 Notes

AMD dGPUs Supporting Interlaced Output via the Linux `amdgpu` Driver

❌ APUs Without Interlace Support via `amdgpu`

✅ AMD APUs with Confirmed Interlace Support via `amdgpu`