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Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64


The newest feature merged this weekend to Intel's open-source 'ANV' Vulkan driver for Linux systems is support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension.

The newest feature merged this weekend to Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems is support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension. This extension allows applications relying on 64-bit integer atomics in this manner to quickly improve performance with only relatively minor code changes." VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 is a nearly five year old extension and was worked on by Faith Ekstrand of the Intel ANV driver team at the time.

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