AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Plumbs New Extensions, Lands A Number Of Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Plumbs New Extensions, Lands A Number Of Fixes

The AMD folks maintaining their official Vulkan driver code have done their common end-of-week code dump into the open-source AMDVLK Linux Vulkan driver repository across the PAL, XGL, LLVM, and SPVGEN code-bases...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDVLK-20-July-2018

[humbug]

There will likely be a fresh round of AMDVLK vs. RADV benchmarks

Remember to also include the proprietary Radeon Software driver. In many games it's the fastest driver with AMD's superior closed-source, internal shader compiler. Particularly in high resolutions it works better.

[pete910]

But my distro doesn't package it

FTFY

PS

Available on Antergos which means it's on manjaro as it's in the AUR for Arch so that' s 3