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Open-Source Apple GPU Vulkan Driver Merged For Mesa 24.3
Merged today for Q4's Mesa 24.3 feature release is a brand new open-source Vulkan driver: Honeykrisp, the driver providing Vulkan API support for Apple Silicon GPUs as part of the Asahi Linux effort.
Besides being limited to the earlier Apple Silicon SoCs, there's another big factor to consider: the performance is subpar for right now and it's not recommended for end-users in current form. So I think this is settled enough that it makes sense to upstream this now instead of building up a gigantic monster commit in a private branch." So it's exciting this nearly ten thousand lines of new code Vulkan driver has been merged for Mesa 24.3 (not the upcoming Mesa 24.2 release premiering in August), but it's not yet ready for end-users to light up their Apple Silicon GPUs with Vulkan API workloads on Linux.
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