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    Phoronix: More RadeonSI Navi Improvements Are Pending

    A few days ago the Navi 10 support landed in AMD's open-source RadeonSI OpenGL driver within Mesa 19.2. It looks like landing in the next few days will be some follow-up work to address some features and performance for the soon-to-ship Radeon RX 5700 series...

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    Very nice. AMD's Linux launch support hasn't always been the best.

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    • #3
      I wonder if they could also implement other still missing features for Vega which were promised at launch.
      Last edited by ms178; 06 July 2019, 11:33 AM.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by ms178 View Post
        I wonder if they could also implement other still missing features for Vega which were promised at launch.
        What's missing?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by FireBurn View Post

          What's missing?
          This is what they list as supported for the RX 580:

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          Radeon™ VR Ready Premium Radeon™ Software
            Radeon™ FreeSync Technology
            AMD LiquidVR™ Technology
            4th Gen GCN Architecture
            Radeon™ Chill
            Radeon™ ReLive
            DirectX® 12 Technology
            AMD Eyefinity Technology (Gaming)
            AMD App Acceleration
            AMD CrossFire™ Technology
            AMD CrossFire™ (Bridgeless)
            3rd Gen 14nm Process Technology
            OpenCL 2.0
            OpenGL 4.5
            AMD PowerTune Technology
            TrueAudio Next
            Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
            Video Code Engine (VCE)
            Virtual Super Resolution
            The Vulkan® API
          So, like, 75% of that list for Polaris.

          For Vega (64) we have:

          Code:
           Radeon™ VR Ready Premium
            Radeon™ FreeSync Technology
            Radeon™ Chill
            Radeon™ ReLive
            DirectX® 12 Technology
            AMD Eyefinity Technology (Gaming)
            Catalyst Software
            OpenCL 2.0
            OpenGL 4.5
            AMD PowerTune Technology
            TressFX Hair
            TrueAudio Next
            Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
            Video Code Engine (VCE)
            Virtual Super Resolution
            The Vulkan® API
            AMD ZeroCore Power Technology
          Or the same stuff that Polaris doesn't have with TressFX Hair and ZeroCore Power Technology added to the list.

          I'm assuming they just forgot to add "Catalyst Software" to the Polaris/580 list.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by FireBurn View Post

            What's missing?
            Next Generation Geometry (NGG), Primitive Shaders and Primitive Binning come to my mind (the latter was implemented but tuned for Raven Ridge and later disabled for dGPUs).

            For Primitive Shaders and NGG, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...itive_shaders/
            Primitive Binning is just enabled on RADV: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-Default-Patch
            For NGG also this: https://www.mail-archive.com/amd-gfx.../msg24458.html

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            • #7
              Mhh, while looking at the MR from Marek it seems some functionality is also enabled for GFX9 if I read several checks within the code correctly...

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              • #8
                just in time for the Sunday benchmark! 7/7

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post

                  This is what they list as supported for the RX 580:

                  Code:
                  Radeon™ VR Ready Premium Radeon™ Software
                  Radeon™ FreeSync Technology
                  AMD LiquidVR™ Technology
                  4th Gen GCN Architecture
                  Radeon™ Chill
                  Radeon™ ReLive
                  DirectX® 12 Technology
                  AMD Eyefinity Technology (Gaming)
                  AMD App Acceleration
                  AMD CrossFire™ Technology
                  AMD CrossFire™ (Bridgeless)
                  3rd Gen 14nm Process Technology
                  OpenCL 2.0
                  OpenGL 4.5
                  AMD PowerTune Technology
                  TrueAudio Next
                  Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
                  Video Code Engine (VCE)
                  Virtual Super Resolution
                  The Vulkan® API
                  So, like, 75% of that list for Polaris.

                  For Vega (64) we have:

                  Code:
                   Radeon™ VR Ready Premium
                  Radeon™ FreeSync Technology
                  Radeon™ Chill
                  Radeon™ ReLive
                  DirectX® 12 Technology
                  AMD Eyefinity Technology (Gaming)
                  Catalyst Software
                  OpenCL 2.0
                  OpenGL 4.5
                  AMD PowerTune Technology
                  TressFX Hair
                  TrueAudio Next
                  Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
                  Video Code Engine (VCE)
                  Virtual Super Resolution
                  The Vulkan® API
                  AMD ZeroCore Power Technology
                  Or the same stuff that Polaris doesn't have with TressFX Hair and ZeroCore Power Technology added to the list.

                  I'm assuming they just forgot to add "Catalyst Software" to the Polaris/580 list.
                  Some of these things, like TressFX and Chill are hardware-agnostic software. They don't have anything to do with the hardware and it's drivers. Others are high-level marketing abstractions for what is in reality a set of several features. Not a great indication of what's lacking and what isn't to be honest.

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                  • #10

                    Polaris is really 4th Gen GCN Architecture? I do not see it in the documentation: https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/

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