All Gallium3D Drivers Getting ASTC Compression Support, RadeonSI Hits OpenGL ES 3.2

[phoronix]

Phoronix: All Gallium3D Drivers Getting ASTC Compression Support, RadeonSI Hits OpenGL ES 3.2

The latest notable patch series by prolific Mesa contributor Marek Olšák of AMD is on allowing ASTC texture compression support for all Gallium3D drivers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=All-Gallium-Gets-ASTC

[jf33]

Is there actually any AMD / Nvidia hardware currently available, that supports ASTC?

[Michael]

Is there actually any AMD / Nvidia hardware currently available, that supports ASTC?

Tegra does, don't recall offhand without checking whether Pascal desktop GPUs do. Intel does with Skylake and newer.

[bridgman]

Tegra does, don't recall offhand without checking whether Pascal desktop GPUs do. Intel does with Skylake and newer.

As far as I can see neither AMD nor NVidia desktop GPUs include native HW support for ASTC.

[microcode]

I'd be excited to see AMD include ASTC hardware at least in their APUs, then we might see more applications bothering to implement it, and better performance on integrated hardware going forward.