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Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows
The past year there's been an independent open-source driver developer working on 'Terakan' as a Vulkan driver for old Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs
The work so far has been predominantly been carried out with the open-source Linux graphics stack while this weekend the Terakan driver was demonstrated under Microsoft Windows. To much surprise, in his latest status update this Saturday he shows his Vulkan driver in action under Microsoft Windows on an old Radeon HD 6800 series (Barts) GPU: In any event it's fascinating to see what can be achieved by one individual pursuing open-source drivers and pulling off something never officially carried out by AMD for allowing Vulkan on TeraScale era graphics processors.
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