AMD Launches HIP-RT Ray-Tracing Library

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Launches HIP-RT Ray-Tracing Library

The newest software addition under AMD's GPUOpen software umbrella is HIP-RT as a ray-tracing library for HIP...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-HIP-RT

[ezst036]

Why should the closed-source guys have all the fun?

[tildearrow]

Might as well call this GPUClosed...

[Quackdoc]

getting ROCm in general to work has been nothing but a massive headache let alone anything HIP related

[smitty3268]

Still waiting for AMD to support ray tracing in open source drivers, 17 months after launch....

[Anux]

Still waiting for AMD to support ray tracing in open source drivers, 17 months after launch....

What? People here already reportet, that they can play Q2RT with the AMD driver: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...V-LBVH-Patches

[soulsource]

What? People here already reportet, that they can play Q2RT with the AMD driver: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...V-LBVH-Patches

That's the community RADV driver, not the official amdvlk driver.
(Fun fact: The community RADV driver also allows to expose vulkan raytracing extensions without dedicated raytracing hardware if 'RADV_PERFTEST=rt' is set. Quake 2 RTX runs nearly tolerable on Rx480 and similar cards.)

[Anux]

So whats your problem then? Use RADV, its faster and probably preinstalled in your distro.

[theriddick]

Whenever I tried to use RT on RADV it would either crash in HORRIBLE fashion or you'd get a snail like performance. GO ON, try enabling RT in Cyberpunk2077 or Metro.... dare ya!

[LumielGR]

Anyone managed to build the tutorials on Linux? No matter what I try I get errors.