Radeon Memory Visualizer News Today

With the first quarter drawing to a close, here's a recap of the most exciting AMD Linux/open-source news from the quarter

Thanks to the nature of open-source and AMD making their Radeon Memory Visualizer 'RMV' open-source under the GPUOpen umbrella, outside of AMD graphics drivers it's found usage elsewhere

While AMD's GPUOpen team developed the Radeon Memory Visualizer for their own Radeon graphics processors, thanks to the software working out well and being open-source and the profiling/dump format being public, the Intel open-source Vulkan Linux driver has added support for it

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' has added support for the small but useful VK_EXT_tooling_info extension.

Hardware raytracing acceleration has come a long way since Nvidia's Turing first introduced the technology. Even with these hardware advances, raytracing is so expensive that most games have stuck to very limited raytracing effects, if raytracing is used at all. However, some technology demos have provided expanded raytracing effects. For example, Quake and Portal have…