RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver ray-tracing support is about to become much faster with a pending improvement that is currently undergoing review...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Batch-Accel-RT

[Spajdrex]

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radv: Fragment shader interlock implementation (!22250) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa · GitLab

[Sethox]

The only word I find say is: Neat.
It is inevitable that I will benefit from this code (if it gets merged).

[skeevy420]

Phenomenal news. RT is the only thing that I can't really utilize with my 6700 XT so here's to hoping that a 6800 getting 3x performance in some games translates into making RT somewhat usable for me.

[paulocoghi]

Thanks Friedrich Vock, Konstantin Seurer and Mesa team for your incredible work!

[pharmasolin]

So with valve and now potentially google (with their chrome os which will use wayland) we can see even more improvements to graphic stack? I believe google and valve will need to push HDR they will need it. And then linux will just need one proper DE and it will be finally year of linux?

[boxie]

And then linux will just need one proper DE...

you're a funny person you are!

[Mark Rose]

And then linux will just need one proper DE

We've already got KDE

[MastaG]

"When paired with the monolithic pipeline MR it completely blows amdvlk out of water."

I like this...

[remenic]

This is also worth mentioning.
radv: Fragment shader interlock implementation (!22250) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa · GitLab

How are people able to comprehend the code that makes our GPUs do the things they do. It's all seems so magical. How do they even come up with it?