RADV ACO SMEM Patches Land - Taking ACO To Feature Parity With AMDGPU LLVM

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Phoronix: RADV ACO SMEM Patches Land - Taking ACO To Feature Parity With AMDGPU LLVM

As of today in Mesa 20.2-devel Git, the Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) with the ACO back-end is now effectively at feature-parity to the default AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

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[CochainComplex]

good news

[b8e5n]

Right on time for the next gen GPUs

[ResponseWriter]

Good stuff! It really does make a noticeable difference to load times. Hopefully we'll have the option to use it with radeonsi as well.

[pal666]

so the only missing step here https://github.com/daniel-schuermann/mesa/issues/98 is opengl

[pal666]

btw, aco announcement was posted on july 3rd

[LeJimster]

Will be nice to not have to think about enabling ACO. I hope its not too much work to get it working with OpenGL as well.

[CochainComplex]

best thing if they put aco on default - the tests will also be put to aco default - performance should be even better in the futue

[Shevchen]

Right on time for the next gen GPUs

Navi10 still isn't supported, but I guess its high on the priority list.

[shmerl]

Navi10 still isn't supported, but I guess its high on the priority list.

Navi 10 is supported in aco just fine.