RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Device Generated Commands Support
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Thanks to Valve’s Linux graphics team, VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is now supported by the Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release.

Prominent RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset at Valve has landed support for VK_EXT_device_generated_commands, the multi-vendor device generated commands “DGC” implementation. Last month with Vulkan 1.3.296 the VK_EXT_device_generated_commands extension was introduced to succeed NVIDIA’s vendor-prefixed DGC extension. The device generated commands extension allows for the GPU device to generate a number of commands for command buffers. VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is a very big and important addition to the Vulkan API: Valve’s Mike Blumenkrantz has argued that DGC is the biggest addition to Vulkan since ray-tracing.

  • eldavi
    1·
    11 hours ago

    i tapped on the easy button the last time i wanted a new linux rig and bought a linux laptop from a linux company with its own os and its own paid developers and i’ve learned recently that it’s made me unaware of the state of ATI and linux compatability vs nvidia’s. what’s your take on the state of affairs now?

    i went with the easy button because of my experiences with nvidia and especially on my laptops; but my klutzy self has made getting a new one a necessity and i’m thinking that i’m going to go with AMD/ATI next time and do it the hard way like i used on a windows laptop; or maybe a mac.

    • NullNet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      9 hours ago

      AMD bought ATI like 15 years ago so its a vit dated to even mention ATI. For Linux AMD Has overall better GPU drivers especially if you wanna stick to open source drivers tho

      • eldavi
        2·
        9 hours ago

        that dated comment was right and i hit that easy button five years ago. also i’m realizing now that doing so has completely removed me from the discourse that happens nowadays when it comes to gpu’s and linux.

        amd had already bought ati by the time i hit that easy button and that distinction that i used wasn’t out of place at the last time i was paying attention and participating; or atleast wasn’t so in my experience.

        there used to be lists of rankings for compatibility for nvidia drivers and open source drivers as well. i wonder how i would go about finding the same for amd.