Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Adding Compatibility For Use With The AMD Radeon GPU Profiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Adding Compatibility For Use With The AMD Radeon GPU Profiler

To date the Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver hasn't supported AMD's GPUOpen Radeon GPU Profiler but that is changing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Radeon-GPU-Profiler

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Ultimately though Samuel wants to be able to more easily tigger captures in a similar manner to RenderDoc.

[shmerl]

Interesting. I wonder if it means that Stadia will be able to use radv as an option now.

By the way, actual GPUOpen Radeon Profiler is not open source.

[andyprough]

Typo:

Originally posted by phoronix View Post

Ultimately though Samuel wants to be able to more easily tigger captures in a similar manner to RenderDoc.

You clearly are not a Winnie the Pooh fan.

[timofonic]

You clearly are not a Winnie the Pooh fan.

Me neither. I'm more of a Xinnie the Pooh fan.

[andyprough]

I did not know tiggers could be captured. I thought they were too bouncy.

[mphuZ]

And what's the point? It would be better to start supporting AMDVLK and not invent a bicycle.

By the way, a new version of AMDVLK was released yesterday, but there is no news on phoronix, of course..

[mphuZ]

I wonder if it means that Stadia will be able to use radv as an option now.

Make sense? Games work well, developers are familiar with AMDVLK on the Windows system for a long time - why do they need this transition?

[R41N3R]

And what's the point? It would be better to start supporting AMDVLK and not invent a bicycle.

By the way, a new version of AMDVLK was released yesterday, but there is no news on phoronix, of course..

AMDVLK is nice as a reference implementation but based on an abstraction layer. There is no concurrency to RADV. AMD prefers to develop it's driver in house and just drop releases from time to time. RADV is developed openly by the community for Linux, it shares a lot of code like NIR and has fantastic features like ACO. As it is part of Mesa everybody gets it by default. Where do you see a transition for developers? Isn't this why there is a Vulkan test suite?

[kiffmet]

mphuZ RADV is actually faster than AMDVLK (even faster than the PRO variant with AMD's proprietary shader compiler) and recieves fixes more often. This and the fact that it gets shipped with Mesa and therefore is a plug-and-play solution makes it the de-facto standard on Linux.