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I have a Dell laptop with a AMD Radeon R6 graphics card.

The download's site for AMD drivers (http://support.amd.com/en-us/download) let's you either automatically detect and download the correct driver (only works in Windows), or download them manually.

I've tried finding the correct driver for my laptop by selecting, in the manual download section:

Step 1: Notebook graphics

But in Step 2 I get lost because there are Radeon R5, R7, and R9, but no R6.

I booted up Windows 10 and installed the automatic download tool. It downloaded the file:

radeon-crimson-15.12-win10-64bit.exe

Which driver should I download for my Ubuntu 64 bit system?

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    The definitive guide(help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD) on AMD drivers on ubuntu. Note that as of 16.04 the fglrx binary driver from AMD has been deprecated.
    – Tejas Kale
    Jul 2, 2016 at 21:10
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    Thank you Tejas. I'm using Ubutnu 16.04 (Xubuntu actually), so those instructions would appear to not work anymore?
    – Gabriel
    Jul 2, 2016 at 21:15
  • On Ubuntu can't you just open Driver Manager a different select the suggested driver and install it?
    – acejavelin
    Jul 2, 2016 at 21:59
  • Yes, but I don't know what that is installing (it only says 'amd64-microcode') and the behavior of the system is notifiable inferior (in particular the battery life) compared to that I get in Windows 10.
    – Gabriel
    Jul 2, 2016 at 23:59
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    AMDGPU driver is enabled out of the box for 16.04. You should not need to install anything. help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
    – Tejas Kale
    Jul 3, 2016 at 12:03

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