I tested the drivers in Ubuntu 16.04.3, from http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-Pro-Beta-Mining-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx
The test GPU was a Radeon R9 Fury X, which is listed as compatible.

At first the drivers were breaking boot (tried 2 versions in different AMD support pages), there was no GUI. To uninstall, you can press Ctrl+Alt+F1, login with your credentials and run .

Then I started googling and found https://askubuntu.com/questions/880523/cant-login-after-installing-amdgpu-pro-16-60 other people that were able to get the drivers working by using one of the options of the install script, either
or

Everything else was working as per the official AMD support pages.