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RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension.
With the open-source RADV driver, the 8-bit floating point support works with AMD RDNA4 / GFX12 GPUs and future hardware. This 8-bit FP support for the RADV driver will be part of next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release for helping out Vulkan with AI/ML software.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. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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