AMDVLK 2022.Q2.3 Vulkan Driver Released With Some Performance Optimizations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDVLK 2022.Q2.3 Vulkan Driver Released With Some Performance Optimizations

AMD today released a new update to AMDVLK, their official open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems that is derived from their internal Vulkan driver sources while plumbed to use the open-source LLVM AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. For Linux gamers this driver doesn't remain as popular as Mesa's RADV but the update today does deliver on some game performance optimizations...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDVLK-2022.Q2.3-Released

[binarybanana]

Does AMDVLK also have the same swap chain problem as the mesa driver? IIRC the mesa driver always creates a 4 frame swap chain. So this driver could give an advantage in terms of latency if it doesn't have the same bug.

[tildearrow]

Typo.............................................. ....

AMDVLK 2022.Q2.3 souce downloads

[harre]

How do I know if RADV or AMDVLK is used? I have both installed.

And how do I force either driver to be used?

[SamA29]

Have the same issue with this one as I did a previous one many months ago- Steam games start to load then crash. Downgraded to previous version 2022.Q2.2.1 and all is well again. Not sure if a Steam or Arch issue.

sam