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AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 was published today as AMD's first Radeon Vulkan open-source driver update since last month

With today's release of Ubuntu 23.10 not only is the performance improved nicely for modern AMD Ryzen systems, but as usual the open-source graphics performance has enjoyed some nice performance improvements, new Vulkan extensions, and more particularly when it comes to the AMD Radeon and Intel graphics drivers.

The open-source MESA RADV "Radeon Vulkan" drivers for AMD Radeon GPUs have received a major boost to ray tracing performance.

RDNA 2 ray-tracing on Linux sees a massive boost to performanc e thanks to a new update to Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan RADV driver.

AMD's Radeon Vulkan drivers "RADV" are expected to feature huge ray tracing performance upgrades in the coming release.

As AMD's next-gen Zen 5 CPUs near, it seems like Linux 6.6 has started to receive new patches based on the upcoming architecture.

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' supports native hardware ray-tracing with RDNA2 and RDNA3 graphics cards where it's matured quite nicely over the past number of months

Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has merged support for VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock, which is a highly sought after extension by game emulators and also important for DirectX over Vulkan layering efforts and more.

For some months now RADV ray-tracing has been enabled on a per-game basis while finally today in a change for next quarter's Mesa 23.2 release is RADV ray-tracing support being exposed by default for all software.

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has landed a new set of patches for Mesa 23.2 that are further optimizing the Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' for lower overhead in some code paths.