AMDVLK 2020.Q4.6 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, Performance Tuning

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDVLK 2020.Q4.6 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, Performance Tuning

AMD has released the newest open-source snapshot of their official AMD Vulkan "AMDVLK" driver for Linux systems...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDVLK-2020.Q4.6-Released

[skeevy420]

I don't have Twitter so you can add one extra vote to RADV. In regards to Vulkan I have all three installed and for the most graphically intensive of games I'll test them all and use whichever nets the most FPS, but RADV runs by default.

[agurenko]

I've just switched to RX5700XT yesterday and it's my very first exposure to AMD GPU on Linux. While I've been kind of following what's happening there, I feel lost in terms of different drivers available and how they can be utilized.

Is there a good read about it? Is it configurable which one is use?

I'm running Fedora 33 with mesa 20.2 and apart from radeontop I didn't find any tools to work with gpu just yet (like greenwithenvy, sysfs exposure of nouveau, nvidia control center). Any advice?

[baryluk]

Sweet.

Race between RADV and AMDVLK devs

I wonder what kind of performance improvements we are talking about.

[baryluk]

Would be awesome to see difference in Wolfenstein: Youngblood.

AFAIK it uses Vulkan, works really well under wine, and has support for variable rate shading. I am not sure if wine already done plumbing for this extension, but probably yes.

[baxeno]

I've just switched to RX5700XT yesterday and it's my very first exposure to AMD GPU on Linux. While I've been kind of following what's happening there, I feel lost in terms of different drivers available and how they can be utilized.

Is there a good read about it? Is it configurable which one is use?

I'm running Fedora 33 with mesa 20.2 and apart from radeontop I didn't find any tools to work with gpu just yet (like greenwithenvy, sysfs exposure of nouveau, nvidia control center). Any advice?

You need to install CoreCtrl:
dnf install corectrl

To tweak mesa install adriconf.

[agurenko]

You need to install CoreCtrl:
dnf install corectrl

To tweak mesa install adriconf.

Thanks a lot, that's a good start!

[lowflyer]

I don't have twitter, I'm using RADV.

[santoniuk]

I have twitter and I'm using all three drivers thus I can't select only one in a poll.
I use all three and all of them are crap.