Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Lands Last Minute HiZ Improvements

[davidbepo]

also dynamicuniformbuffer and textoverlay (and possibly more ones) improved

[davidbepo]

it improves performance havily in some vulkan demos

pre change
triangle 1640~ fps
gears 760~ fps
instancing 61 fps

post change
triangle 1620~ fps
gears 1130~ fps
instancing 62 fps

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Lands Last Minute HiZ Improvements

Some more exciting last minute work landing in Mesa Git before this weekend's Mesa 17.0 branching are the potentially performance-improving HiZ work within the Intel Vulkan driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Mesa-17-HiZ-Improvements