Vulkan Renderer: Pre-RDNA AMD GPUs not supported at this time.

[richard612]

Regarding VMware Workstation on Linux.  This is in my mksSandbox.log:

2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer: Available Vulkan devices:
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer: Vulkan Device 0:
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Vendor= 'AMD'
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   ID= 0x67df
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Type= 0x2
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Name= 'AMD Radeon RX 570 Series (RADV POLARIS10)'
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   GPU chip= Ellesmere (GCN4)
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   GPU type= Discrete
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Driver Name= 'radv'
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Driver Version= 0x6801008
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Driver ID= 0x3
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Driver Info= 'Mesa 26.1.8'
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   API Version= 1.4.354
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer: Pre-RDNA AMD GPUs not supported at this time.
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Device supported= no
2026-08-31T17:53:04.446Z INFO(05) mks  Vulkan Renderer:   Presentation support= true

On the nVidia side I know Ampere is OK.  Is there a kb article which outlines how far back we can go?  How about Intel Xe/i915?

[Brian Paul]

For AMD, we require a  RDNA/Navi10 or later GPU.

For Intel, we require a Skylake / Intel HD 520/530/etc or later.

That said, you can bypass the Vulkan GPU/driver check by setting mks.vk.allowUnsupportedDevices=TRUE in your .vmx file.  As long as the Vulkan driver supports the needed features and works properly, Workstation will probably work (but is untested by us - good luck).

[richard612]

Thanks Brian.  I've been doing precisely as you suggest which is what inspired this question.  A Chromium browser firing up Skia Graphite will signal 11 the VM. I've been getting away with it for more than a year.  Apparently Claude Desktop (an electron app) uses this as well.  I've worked around it by disabling hardware acceleration.

But sooner or later I'll have to upgrade.  I've been eyeballing the Intel B580 but thought I should ask.