AMD Releases Radeon Software Linux Driver With Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support

[baryluk]

Nice. Hopefully this will be ported to amdvlk soon.

Also, would be interesting to see some performance comparison between Windows and Linux on RX 6000, including raytracing.

[CochainComplex]

in certain fields AMD's first Ray tracing implementation is better than Nvidias second. I was not expecting this in the first generation. Great!

[plasticbomb1986]

Yeah, it's easier to design new GPU architectures than to come up with new numbers

It seems, there were more change under the hood, in the fresh package opencl parts some gpus with some applications having problems. Like they cant start up... cl error -9 -13...

https://github.com/todxx/teamredminer/issues/294

Could the guys at the documentation department sometimes check out what else have changed, and add those to the list too?

[dpospisil]

Finally, Cycles is working with this driver on RX6800 as it should have from the beginning. Zero crashes after 2h of testing. Huge improvement there!

[smitty3268]

Only 148 days late.

Hopefully soon AMD will at least work on posting the ray-tracing support for the open-source AMDVLK Vulkan driver but so far I haven't received confirmation on when they plan on enabling AMDVLK support for Vulkan RT.

As far as I know, AMD has never even committed to EVER releasing support in AMDVLK.

[Schugy]

I use only open source drivers on my 3500U APU. Maybe it's fast enough for something like 320x240 pixels.

[ix900]

as long as they are not part of any open source driver, I couldn't care less.

No one cares that you won't use closed source

[Quackdoc]

About time, they have been sitting on it long enough, hopefully the implementation is better than the windows counterpart, but I guess even bad is better than nothing

[tildearrow]

I think Nvidia users had this on launch day, or am I wrong

Kind of, but NVIDIA users on Linux had no applications that used the ray-tracing hardware for months.

[tildearrow]

Yeah, it's easier to design new GPU architectures than to come up with new numbers

Then why not let's be honest and sell the next card as Radeon RDNA III?

By the end of 2050 your cards will be called Radeon RX 70000000...

Just kidding...