Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins
A change merged today for Mesa 24.0 is yielding much better Vulkan ray-tracing performance for the Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' across a number of games.
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A change merged today for Mesa 24.0 is yielding much better Vulkan ray-tracing performance for the Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' across a number of games.
As what's likely to be the last Vulkan API spec update before Christmas, Vulkan 1.3.274 was released today with the Vulkan Video encode extensions promoted as well as adding some other new extensions as a nice end-of-year gift.
It's been just over one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 and this morning it's been succeeded by a new AMD open-source Vulkan Linux driver release.
The MESA team working on the open-source RADV driver has added a new "knob" feature to cater to shader compilation errors on Steam Deck,
AMD has limited driver support for its Polaris & Vega GCN GPUs to "Critical" updates as both architectures are near EOL (End-of-Life).