Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Adds KHR_ray_query Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Adds KHR_ray_query Support

Back in Q4 the Mesa 21.3 release added Vulkan ray-tracing support for the RADV driver. That RADV ray-tracing support has continued to mature and see performance optimizations. The latest major achievement for RADV's ray-tracing support is implementing support for the Vulkan KHR_ray_query extension...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Lands-KHR_ray_query

[shmerl]

Nice! Time to test if Cyberpunk 2077 works with ray tracing now.

[xcom]

Nice! Time to test if Cyberpunk 2077 works with ray tracing now.

I hope they will publish their Stadia's Vulkan API too..

[shmerl]

I hope they will publish their Stadia's Vulkan API too..

Does Stadia support ray tracing? I thought they are using amdvlk which didn't have it yet.

[shmerl]

Tested CP2077 - it hangs when enabling ray tracing in it. I assume vkd3d-proton still needs some work.

[sos987]

Any performance improvements in Q2RTX seen?

[mazumoto]

Thanks for the info about Cyberpunk.
What about Doom Eternal? Does it work now?

[aufkrawall]

Tested CP2077 - it hangs when enabling ray tracing in it. I assume vkd3d-proton still needs some work.

Yes, same with Nvidia.

[evil_core]

Does Stadia support ray tracing? I thought they are using amdvlk which didn't have it yet.

WTF?

You know what's Stadia is? It's like RDP/VNC, kind of remote console(like telnet/ssh) + streaming(youtube).
It sends to rendering host input, and fetches rendered graphic. Stadia doesn't render anything itself(only encodes video), it's all dependent on game settings and hardware/drivers capabilities on rendering host.
Client machine grabs input, sends it, and all CPU/GPU intensive work is to decode video.

[evil_core]

Michael Sorry to say that, but this small(maybe, because it's so small/downsized) screenshot look like sh^H^H very early OpenGL demo. It's so uninspiring that I would never guess Ray Tracing is involved there.