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RadeonSI Driver Wires Up Support For 16-bit NIR Types: Benefits GLES & OpenCL


Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his most recent conquest: implementing support for 16-bit NIR types within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver along with the LLVM and ACO compiler back-ends.

Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his most recent conquest: implementing support for 16-bit NIR types within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver along with the LLVM and ACO compiler back-ends. "The main change is that this enables 16-bit NIR types and mediump lowering except shader inputs/outputs. This 16-bit NIR support will be in Mesa 25.1 that is due to debut as stable likely by the end of May.

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