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RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs


Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs

Delta Color Compression, as an important performance feature is now merged in Mesa Git ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards shipping in March. DCC provides lossless compression for 3D rendering and is important for maximizing video memory bandwidth and ensuring optimal performance. With the RDNA4 graphics cards not publicly released yet, the Mesa merge request landing the GFX12 DCC support doesn't comment on any performance data.

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