RADV Vulkan Driver Making Progress On Portal RTX Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RADV Vulkan Driver Making Progress On Portal RTX Support

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is making progress on being able to run the new Portal RTX game...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Portal-RTX-Progress

[FireBurn]

With the fixes applied the game works for me at arround 8fps on my 6800M. If you see weird graphical errors being up the Remix menu and change from Ultra to High, apparently volumetric lighting isn't working yet

[avis]

Weirdly I've not seen a single review of RX 7900 XTX/XT being tested in Portal RTX.

At least Quake 2 RTX has been tested:



Other heavy RT titles:

[trex]

Ignoring for a moment how realistic it is to play RTX portal on a amd gpu it sure is nice to see ray tracing to get worked on

[M@GOid]

Games tainted by the Nvidia minions will never perform good on current hardware, even Nvidia ones. They intentionally hack things to need the most expensive card Nvidia sells, because obviously they are in the business of selling GPUs, not providing free games.

[tournev]

Weirdly I've not seen a single review of RX 7900 XTX/XT being tested in Portal RTX.

There is a test of Portal RTX on RX 7900s here (in French) : https://www.comptoir-hardware.com/ar...x.html?start=7

comptoir-Portal with RTX - UHD.jpg

[avis]

Games tainted by the Nvidia minions will never perform good on current hardware, even Nvidia ones. They intentionally hack things to need the most expensive card Nvidia sells, because obviously they are in the business of selling GPUs, not providing free games.

There have been multiple NVIDIA sponsored titles which run better (faster) on AMD GPUs.

Anything else you want to hate NVIDIA for?

[M@GOid]

There have been multiple NVIDIA sponsored titles which run better (faster) on AMD GPUs.

Anything else you want to hate NVIDIA for?

Multiple? Wow, that looks like a lot...
Also, there is no point of me listing things you would hate Nvidia for, after all, fanboys are notorious for looking sideways to the bad things their pet company do, be it Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc.

[pete910]

There have been multiple NVIDIA sponsored titles which run better (faster) on AMD GPUs.

Anything else you want to hate NVIDIA for?

With RT on ?

[avis]

Multiple? Wow, that looks like a lot...
Also, there is no point of me listing things you would hate Nvidia for, after all, fanboys are notorious for looking sideways to the bad things their pet company do, be it Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc.

Good, let's stick to products, features and pricing.

• NVIDIA was the first introduce extremely fast hardware tesselation which took AMD approximately five years to catch up
• NVIDIA was the first to introduce NVIDIA reflex (a feature to significantly reduce latency)
• NVIDIA was the first to introduce GSync which AMD followed with now universally supported
• NVIDIA's hardware H.264/H.265/AV1 encoders beat the hell out of AMD though AMD has improved their H.264 encoder for RDNA 3.0 and introduced an AV1 encoder
• NVIDIA has historically had high-quality drivers - something which AMD still has issues with - from reviews RDNA 3.0 cards are riddled with software issues including insane idle power consumption for multi-monitor configurations and hardware video decoding
• NVIDIA was the first to implement hardware accelerated ray tracing which AMD lags by a generation
• NVIDIA was the first to introduce temporal image upscaling [based on AI], DLSS, again took a few years for AMD to catch up and they haven't yet as DLSS continues to beat FSR 2.4.

NVIDIA absolutely loves vendor lock-in (Gsync/DLSS/AI casting features), you can give them that but AMD needs to step up and come up with serious features gamers are looking for. NVIDIA sets the trends, AMD follows.

Sadly, NVIDIA's pricing for Ada Lovelace cards is insane, a blatant rip-off, but AMD, instead of offering real competition, decided to join in.

With RT on ?

No such games, I meant purely rasterized games. AMD's RT implementation is a lot slower.