RADV Radeon Driver Lands NGG Culling Support As Another Performance Win

[smitty3268]

If I were AMD, I would have ditched the abomination which is AMDVLK-open and started supporting RADV as the official open source option, as AMD already does with RadeonSi. Also, instead of AMDVLK-open, provide AMDVLK-pro as a standalone package.

It's pretty obvious there was some kind of corporate mandate (maybe even a legal contract for their supercomputer wins?) that they must provide open source vulkan drivers, but almost no thought or effort has been given towards caring about them for linux users. Which is how you end up with something like AMDVLK.

[CochainComplex]

Venemo as always good stuff - I really love mesa!

[user1]

it's not written by amd. it should be someone else, why...

If I were AMD, I would have ditched the abomination which is AMDVLK-open and started supporting RADV as the official open source option, as AMD already does with RadeonSi. Also, instead of AMDVLK-open, provide AMDVLK-pro as a standalone package.

[pal666]

The best driver for ~1% of Radeon owners (Linux users). This is so great and so wrong at the same time. AMD, why...

it's not written by amd. it should be someone else, why...

[Venemo]

works great with Cyberpunk...haven't fired up a fps counter yet but market scenes seem to be less stuttery.

That's nice to hear. Thus far in my testing, it's a small regression in Cyberpunk, but I only tested the very first scene of the game.

[CochainComplex]

btw now mike blumenkrantz the machine is optimizing RADV https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...requests/11839

edit: just checking out timurs branch - mikes viewport merge rebased to main https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/Venem...-viewport-nggc

[CochainComplex]

This is so off-topic I apologize, but I just noticed today Sublime Text 4 launches in 0.08 secs. Unreal. With or without the new hardware_acceleration: "opengl", it's still fast. FYI if you use ST4, it's gpu hw acceleration is disabled by default on Linux, so be sure to turn it on.

startup, version: 4113 linux x64 channel: stable
executable: /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text
pre session restore time: 0.0811861
OpenGL Context Information:
GL API Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.0.3
GLSL Version: 4.60
Vendor: AMD
Renderer: AMD Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (POLARIS10, DRM 3.35.0, 5.4.131-0504131+custom-generic, LLVM 12.0.0)
startup time: 0.412381
first paint time: 0.421506

And they wonder I'm still on my Haswell i5-4670K... Linux is lightening fast. Winning

Sorry, you were saying...

NGG Culling? That's really awesome, too.

even of ot ...thx for pointing to st4 it is really fast ...

[CochainComplex]

Great work, as always!

When testing, don't forget to also include this: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...requests/11810

so far no issues with the vertex grouping.

[perpetually high]

This is so off-topic I apologize, but I just noticed today Sublime Text 4 launches in 0.08 secs. Unreal. With or without the new hardware_acceleration: "opengl", it's still fast. FYI if you use ST4, it's gpu hw acceleration is disabled by default on Linux, so be sure to turn it on.

startup, version: 4113 linux x64 channel: stable
executable: /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text
pre session restore time: 0.0811861
OpenGL Context Information:
GL API Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.0.3
GLSL Version: 4.60
Vendor: AMD
Renderer: AMD Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (POLARIS10, DRM 3.35.0, 5.4.131-0504131+custom-generic, LLVM 12.0.0)
startup time: 0.412381
first paint time: 0.421506

And they wonder I'm still on my Haswell i5-4670K... Linux is lightening fast. Winning

Sorry, you were saying...

NGG Culling? That's really awesome, too.

edit: I meant launches in 0.41 secs, oops :P

[CochainComplex]

works great with Cyberpunk...haven't fired up a fps counter yet but market scenes seem to be less stuttery.