AMD Posts Initial AMDGPU Hybrid Driver With Vulkan Support

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67377

    AMD Posts Initial AMDGPU Hybrid Driver With Vulkan Support

    Phoronix: AMD Posts Initial AMDGPU Hybrid Driver With Vulkan Support

    Well, AMD has just sent out a pleasant surprise before the weekend: an initial AMD Hybrid Linux driver build! It's AMDGPU-based providing OpenGL and Vulkan support on the new stack!..

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  • Vash63
    Senior Member
    • May 2008
    • 206

    #2
    Wow, this is the day a lot of AMD fans have been waiting for. As an Nvidia user I'll be watching this closely, if they keep on track here I might switch sides in a couple generations. Been burned too many times to put money down early.

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    • pal666
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2013
      • 9177

      #3
      why amd fans waited for driver with no games?

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      • ThrowAway3000
        Junior Member
        • Oct 2015
        • 29

        #4
        Vulkan renderer for Dota 2 is almost here, Valve are just waiting for Autodesk to port Scaleform (UI middleware) to Vulkan.

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        • haagch
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2014
          • 961

          #5
          Originally posted by Vash63 View Post
          Wow, this is the day a lot of AMD fans have been waiting for.
          With my SI GPU I'll keep waiting.

          On that topic: ETA for SI support? Weeks? Months?

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          • triangle
            Phoronix Member
            • Jan 2016
            • 68

            #6
            I want benchmarks!!!! D:<

            btw, I did not expect the hybrid driver to come so soon.

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            • duby229
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2007
              • 7782

              #7
              Cool. Finally pretty soon we'll know for sure if the Vulkan support suffers from the performance difficulty AMD's proprietary OpenGL implementation does. Please! Fingers Crossed!

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              • bridgman
                AMD Linux
                • Oct 2007
                • 13187

                #8
                Originally posted by haagch View Post
                On that topic: ETA for SI support? Weeks? Months?
                Ask again in a week, OK ?
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                • uid313
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2011
                  • 6922

                  #9
                  What is the status for Vulkan support on Linux for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia hardware?

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                  • VikingGe
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2015
                    • 371

                    #10
                    Nvidia have already released a cough stable cough Windows driver with Vulkan support, so I expect them to roll out a new Linux driver in the next couple of weeks (Beta drivers have been around since February). They still don't have working Xlib WSI support and don't even seem to care, considering that the bug has been reported over a month ago.

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