[Trisquel-users] Re : AMD's 2016 Linux Driver Plans & GPU Open Source

[lcerf]

It refers to 3D acceleration, one of the features those video card provides.  
You can get 3D acceleration with Intel graphical chipset or with the older  
nVidia cards (although they are more expensive, more energy consuming and,  
more importantly, the support is worse than Intel's). Contrary to nVidia's  
cards, nobody reversed-engineered AMD/ATI's firmware (a titanic work) that  
provides essential pieces for 3D acceleration. That is why that feature is  
not available.