Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink

Mesa 21.3 is now out as the latest quarterly feature release to this collection of open-source graphics drivers...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-21.3-Released

[middy]

i'm pretty excited to try ray tracing in wow-classic with my 6900 xt. currently playing season of mastery with my buddy. also interested to see how much ngg helps out in satisfactory. fps starts to drop in mid game once you start getting large factories all over the place.

[baka0815]

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[Linuxxx]

Already updated to it on 20.04 LTS thanks to Valve's Kisak MESA-fresh PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa

Better & faster than relying on Manjaro or even Arch!

[tuxd3v]

Its nice to see AV1 decode acceleration via VAAPI..but its not mentioned in https://wiki.libav.org/Hardware/vaapi
and it seems libva doesn't see updates since mid 2019.. ~2.5 years

Is there any mobile AMD APUs that have RDNA2 graphics( ..so that we can see online videos without the system consuming 1 cpu core )?
I believe RX Vega supports only vp9 not AV1 correct?
regards,

[TemplarGR]

Already updated to it on 20.04 LTS thanks to Valve's Kisak MESA-fresh PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa

Better & faster than relying on Manjaro or even Arch!

Yeah, if you prefer frankestein distros that have 2-3 year old software in most of their packages but you can only update things using 3rd party ppas... Archlinux may be more "slow" to introduce some packages but at least your overall distribution is closer to bleeding edge, not just select packages, and you don't need to use a gazillion of 3rd party user repositories to do so....

[TemplarGR]

Already updated to it on 20.04 LTS thanks to Valve's Kisak MESA-fresh PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa

Better & faster than relying on Manjaro or even Arch!

Speak of the devil, Mesa 21.3.0 is in the testing repo of Arch... "Much faster" indeed. Have fun using your frankenstein-ppa distro.

[middy]

Yeah, if you prefer frankestein distros that have 2-3 year old software in most of their packages but you can only update things using 3rd party ppas... Archlinux may be more "slow" to introduce some packages but at least your overall distribution is closer to bleeding edge, not just select packages, and you don't need to use a gazillion of 3rd party user repositories to do so....

yeah arch waits for the .1 release before they release to stable. but 21.3.0 is in testing for those that want to mess around with it.

[bazsy]

Its nice to see AV1 decode acceleration via VAAPI..but its not mentioned in https://wiki.libav.org/Hardware/vaapi
and it seems libva doesn't see updates since mid 2019.. ~2.5 years

Is there any mobile AMD APUs that have RDNA2 graphics( ..so that we can see online videos without the system consuming 1 cpu core )?
I believe RX Vega supports only vp9 not AV1 correct?
regards,

There are no RDNA2 APUs available. Probably the Steam Deck will be the first one.
Yes, the Vega APUs support up to VP9 and H265. (The dedicated Vega cards didn't have VP9.)