AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 Brings Official Ubuntu 24.04 Support & New Performance Tuning

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 Brings Official Ubuntu 24.04 Support & New Performance Tuning

Hitting the release button minutes ago, AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 is available as the newest version of AMD's official open-source Vulkan driver and the first new release since the end of June. This driver continues to trail in popularity to the likes of the Valve-based Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan driver but does well in areas like Vulkan ray-tracing and is officially backed by AMD...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q3.1-Released

[skeevy420]

Michael

AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 also updates against the Vulkan API 1.3.292 header files, optimizes its Direct3D 9 Strict Float emulation path and provides some new performance tuning. The latest performance tuning work from AMD on the RADV driver is to benefit games Serious Sam 4 and Rainbow Six Extraction.

I think you meant either Vulkan or AMDVLK there.

If anyone from AMD reads this -- y'all forgot to use the space bar a couple of times when writing your release notes.

Performance tuning for SeriousSam4 and RainbowSixExtraction

[Jaxad0127]

Also, "Valve-based" should be "Valve-backed".

[aufkrawall]

Why no support for AMD's new low latency extensions?

[emansom]

Direct3D 9?

Does AMDVLK ship with a fork of DXVK?