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Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2 Sample


With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with games leveraging AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.

With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with games leveraging AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2. Samuel Pitoiset authored this Mesa merge in the AMD NIR code to cull triangles/lines when all W positions are zero. This 228% improvement for the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR2) performance comes with reworking less than one dozen lines of code.

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