Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Has Become Much More Capable At Ray-Tracing, Thanks To Valve

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Has Become Much More Capable At Ray-Tracing, Thanks To Valve

Friedrich Vock with Valve presented yesterday at XDC 2023 on the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance. Last year at XDC 2022 it was dubbed "the world's slowest raytracer" but thanks to the work done by Valve and others, the RADV ray-tracing performance is now quite capable and also enabled by default since Mesa 23.2. The RADV ray-tracing performance also continues inching closer to the AMDVLK Vulkan performance for that official open-source AMD Vulkan driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Ray-Tracing-2023

[Zeioth]

I'm currently playing Cyperpunk with raytracing enabled on RADV git and it performs really great. 4K + FSR2 auto I yield 84FPS on a 6700XT. Flat frametimes line on medium graphics, some minor bumps on high. Unnoticeable with VRR enabled.

Probably on the current generation of AMD GPUs one can enable raytracing reflections too (which is super demanding).

[JEBjames]

Michael

Typo

"expect new t itles to" should be "titles"

[Chewi]

Great progress. I wouldn't waste too much time on Witcher 3 though. The performance was quite bad for me, but I gather that's true on Windows too, even with the beefiest cards.

[jorgepl]

I'm currently playing Cyperpunk with raytracing enabled on RADV git and it performs really great. 4K + FSR2 auto I yield 84FPS on a 6700XT. Flat frametimes line on medium graphics, some minor bumps on high. Unnoticeable with VRR enabled.

Probably on the current generation of AMD GPUs one can enable raytracing reflections too (which is super demanding).

According to this, AMDVLK should be even better

[Eirikr1848]

I'm currently playing Cyperpunk with raytracing enabled on RADV git and it performs really great. 4K + FSR2 auto I yield 84FPS on a 6700XT. Flat frametimes line on medium graphics, some minor bumps on high. Unnoticeable with VRR enabled.

Probably on the current generation of AMD GPUs one can enable raytracing reflections too (which is super demanding).

Still room to grow but holy crap, go Valve! Now I really want to get Cyberpunk working haha.

[avis]

Friedrich Vock is 17/18 years old. OMG.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@pixelcluster

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pixelcluster

Speaks English near perfectly (he's German), works for Valve, a GPU driver coder.

[theriddick]

4K + FSR2 auto I yield 84FPS on a 6700XT.

That will be performance or ultra performance mode, so in effect your probably rendering at 720p internally and I can assure you in my testing FSR2 does not look great in this game. (When compared to competition at least)

[avis]

Michael

Meanwhile explicit sync in Wayland has got a lot of attention recently:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/90

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967

[George99]

Speaks English near perfectly (he's German), works for Valve, a GPU driver coder.

https://www.wjnrw.de/jugend-forscht-landescoaching-2022-2/

At the age of 17, Friedrich Vock won the state competition in the field of "Mathematics / Computer Science" and thus qualified for the national competition. He programmed his own software that uses a technique called "path tracing" to generate realistic images.