RADV Gets A Big Performance Boost Thanks To DCC

[duby229]

Isn't the AMD's driver shared with Windows? In either case opening drivers is always a good thing, even if there's already another one. Having a choice is always preferable to being locked-in

Not really, that windows driver didn't exist on linux when it was launched and took well over a year to fork. It's easy to imagine it took something like 5 0r 10 thousand man hours to do. If you figure 40 hours per week per man. That was a massive waste.

[mphuZ]

i think the Open-Source AMD Vulkan AMDVLD driver will lose any performance benefit over the RADV in less than 3 months..

Nonsense. Huge weight has been lifted of AMD shoulders. AMD has more resources. And they finally will be able to increase productivity.

I think it has already in some benchmarks

Only in those games that were designed for this driver.

Michael, AMD is going to port fixes from RADV to AMDVLK?

[schmidtbag]

AMD wasted a lot money and effort by developing something in house which is never going to be used :-D

Not necessarily. The RADV team has been taking advantage of that code, so it wasn't a complete waste. It's just a shame they didn't release it sooner.

[pal666]

very good... i think the Open-Source AMD Vulkan AMDVLD driver will lose any performance benefit over the RADV in less than 3 months..

it could be done in one day by copypasting whole driver

[pal666]

AMD wasted a lot money and effort by developing something in house which is never going to be used :-D

you wasted a lot of time reading and posting shit
amd developed driver for windows which is 99% of their customers
and now it is used by radv devs

[pal666]

Radv definitely has lower CPU utilization, so it actually is doing less work than amdvlk. Smaller is basically always better. In every single scenario a lighter program that can do the same thing as a heavier program will perform better than the heavier program.

lol. completely backwards when your "program" is a compiler, which vulkan driver is

[pal666]

It's easy to imagine it took something like 5 0r 10 thousand man hours to do. If you figure 40 hours per week per man. That was a massive waste.

don't stop yourself, imagine millions. btw, how many thousand man hours was wasted by radv devs, according to your imagination?

[pal666]

AMD is going to port fixes from RADV to AMDVLK?

first they have to port bugs

[zoomblab]

AMD wasted a lot money and effort by developing something in house which is never going to be used :-D

AMDVLK has platform abstraction architecture that fits the AMD development model by reusing code between Linux and Windows. This is good for not only to AMD (for obvious reasons) but also to us because as I suppose will lead to more actively developed and tested components.

[Kemosabe]

you wasted a lot of time reading and posting shit
amd developed driver for windows which is 99% of their customers
and now it is used by radv devs

language!