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Open-Source RADV Driver Begins Working To Improve AMD RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Performance


While the Radeon RX 9070 series as the first of the AMD RDNA4 graphics cards do perform well on Linux, the one area the performance has been less enticing remains with Vulkan ray-tracing while using the Mesa RADV driver

I decided to land the initial support before looking into performance improvements because it is quite a lot of code with countless possibilities for introducing regressions." At least with one of the Valve developers working on it, this improved ray-tracing performance for these newest AMD discrete GPUs will hopefully materialize sooner than later. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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