Linux 6.6 Receives Patches For AMD's Next-Gen Zen 5 CPUs
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.
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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.