AMDVLK 2020.Q4.5 Vulkan Driver Brings Radeon RX 6000 Series Support

While it was just two days ago that AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 was released, AMD has made good on their word to provide punctual AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver support for their new RDNA 2 "Big Navi" graphics cards and that has resulted in a new AMDVLK release.

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.5 was released this morning with the sole change of adding support for Navi 21 to this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver that shares its code-base with the official Radeon Windows Vulkan driver.

Adding this Navi 1x / GFX103 support to the AMDVLK driver was 700+ lines to their XGL layer while the PAL abstraction layer grew by more than 51k+ lines of code... Much of the PAL changes though are header file additions.

There is the AMDVLK 2020.Q4.5 source tree and Ubuntu/RHEL binary packages of this updated Vulkan driver via GitHub. This AMDVLK driver is an alternative to using the new 20.45 packaged driver or Mesa 20.2+ with Linux 5.9+ for the fully open-source stack including RADV+ACO support on the Radeon RX 6800 series. See more details in our Radeon RX 6800 / RX 6800 XT Linux review.