Get the latest tech news

New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs


Last year Valve contractor Timur Kristóf managed to improve the AMDGPU driver enough for old GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs that with Linux 6.19 AMDGPU is now the default for those GPUs with better performance, RADV Vulkan out-of-the-box, and other benefits

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on Phoronix

Read more on:

Photo of Valve

Valve

Photo of GPUs

GPUs

Photo of new patches

new patches

Related news:

News photo

Valve Has 'Significantly' Rewritten Steam's Rules For How Developers Must Disclose AI Use

News photo

New Patches Provide HDMI VRR & Auto Low Latency Mode Gaming Features For AMD Linux GPU Driver

News photo

Valve amends AI disclosure policy but still stresses players need to be informed if genAI is used