Mesa RADV Driver Re-Enables Ray-Tracing Pipelines For AMD VanGogh APUs / Steam Deck

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa RADV Driver Re-Enables Ray-Tracing Pipelines For AMD VanGogh APUs / Steam Deck

Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-Re-Enables-Van-Gogh

[JEBjames]

Michael

Clarify?

"RADV ray-tracing pipelines were enabled due to"

I think as this is talking about the original disabling...it should be "disabled"?

[Michael]

Michael

Clarify?

"RADV ray-tracing pipelines were enabled due to"

I think as this is talking about the original disabling...it should be "disabled"?

Yep meant disabled, thanks.

[MastaG]

Very nice!
I've tried Doom Eternal on my Deck and although the framerate is a lot lower, the RT reflections look really awesome.
I hope the devs will be able to squeeze out as much as possible on the RT side of things.

[MuPuF]

We are still investigating the issue, but since it doesn't seem to affect production decks, we went ahead and expose it to users ahead of Mesa 23.2!

Happy testing