Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands Another Small Performance Optimization

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands Another Small Performance Optimization

Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver has received another small but measurable performance improvement for various games...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Fast-Clear-vkCmdClearAtt

[WiR3D]

I bet that sparse support PR haunts Faith Ekstrand's dreams. Lol

[pinguinpc]

I bet that sparse support PR haunts Faith Ekstrand's dreams. Lol

Maybe but i think this stay more closer than sparse for Faith Ekstrand's work

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...requests/17892

[Betaminos]

FYI: it seems as if work on enabling the foundation for sparse residency support in the kernel driver (i915) has been stopped, shifting focus to the newer Xe driver, as per https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...il/324237.html This seems to mean that there won't be sparse residency for older generation GPUs (prior to Xe) as well as an additional step for Xe-based GPUs to be cleared, as the Xe-driver has afaik not reached mainline yet. I guess we are looking at several more months of waiting

[aviallon]

FYI: it seems as if work on enabling the foundation for sparse residency support in the kernel driver (i915) has been stopped, shifting focus to the newer Xe driver, as per https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...il/324237.html This seems to mean that there won't be sparse residency for older generation GPUs (prior to Xe) as well as an additional step for Xe-based GPUs to be cleared, as the Xe-driver has afaik not reached mainline yet. I guess we are looking at several more months of waiting

Damn. And I really want it on my 7th gen CPU.
I guess I'll have to do it myself.
When I have EnoughTime™️

[mbriar]

Strange Brigade vulkan might be nice to add to the next Intel Arc windows vs linux benchmarks.