Valve Has Been Developing A New Mesa Vulkan Shader Compiler For Radeon

[ObiWan]

Vega56 - Rise of the Tomb Raider 4K (high/very high mix)
mesa-git + llvm9: 55 FPS
mesa-git + ACO: 65 FPS
nice

everything else I tested is either similar performance or just slighly better.

[juno]

shame on AMD. Valve does their job as far as I can judge.

Do you ignore the fact that Valve makes money with PC gaming, just as AMD does, if not much more? AMD does a lot more stuff than PC gaming. If Valve contributes to PC gaming, it's a win-win.

[rabcor]

Well, call me excited! That is something I need to test :-)

Yeah I'd be lapping this up too if I actually had an amd card, but I'm a poorfag couldn't even afford the radeon vii, in fact I don't even have a desktop to put it into anymore, what is going on with my life?!

[Sethox]

All I got to say is...

God I love Open Source, it's the people I can't stand, all jokes aside transparency is key to further evolve a platform.

[Wojcian]

Very good news. Many games are unplayable with llvm compiler without Steam pre-caching.

[ernstp]

I made a PPA for Ubuntu, please help me test it! https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco

[davidbepo]

could this eventually also be used for radeonSI?

[puleglot]

could this eventually also be used for radeonSI?

Q: Is it radv-only or will RadeonSI work?

A: radv for now, but we intend to look at RadeonSI once things are farther along.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1640915206474070669/

[andrei_me]

Remember Ubuntu's Drama? Steam have an official AUR ready to test ACO but no PPA at the time of writing

[pal666]

3rd party does AMD's job.

high-risk experiments aren't amd's job