sparseBinding Lands For Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: sparseBinding Lands For Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver

The open-source community-based "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver has now enabled the sparseBinding feature...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-sparseBinding-Lands

[VikingGe]

Will be interesting to see if RADV finishes off these features before AMD open-sources any of their Vulkan driver code.

Not the ones that the hardware doesn't support. That does (AFAIK) include the two remaining texture compression modes.

Anyway, good to see some more progress.

[FireBurn]

Has there been any hints yet on when AMD are going to release their Vulkan driver? At this rate there might not be much point

[elldekaa]

Has there been any hints yet on when AMD are going to release their Vulkan driver? At this rate there might not be much point

Comparing implementations might always help for optimizations. It's just sad of not doing it earlier in the development...

[humbug]

Has there been any hints yet on when AMD are going to release their Vulkan driver? At this rate there might not be much point

If they can make radV fast then yes there is less point in AMD releasing theirs... apart from comparing and learning.

But for now AMD's proprietary implementation is better performance tuned and way faster... So releasing it will be cool.

[Darksurf]

So if I wanted to install radv in gentoo. I can see that the -vulkan flag isn't enough when installing mesa. Currently on 17.0.2. How does one enable radv ?

[fuzz]

So if I wanted to install radv in gentoo. I can see that the -vulkan flag isn't enough when installing mesa. Currently on 17.0.2. How does one enable radv ?

I think you need a 9999 version. Will check when I get home to my gentoo box.