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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains


Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel 'ANV' Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool support

In turn this can deliver some magnificent performance improvements on the likes of Lunar Lake and other newer Intel graphics processors. Intel driver engineer José Roberto de Souza explains in the merge request adding the ANV memory pool support: Steam Play games like F1 22 and Strange Brigade and Black Myth: Wukong all seeing double digit percentage improvements on Lunar Lake graphics under Linux.

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