Intel Vulkan Driver Lands ASTC LDR Emulation For Latest GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Vulkan Driver Lands ASTC LDR Emulation For Latest GPUs

Similar to the Radeon RADV driver recently implementing software-based decoding for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa has also now wired up ASTC LDR emulation...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-ASTC-LDR-Emulation

[Myownfriend]

It blows my mind that all desktop GPUs don't support ASTC. Had they adopted them earlier then we'd have games using it by now VRAM usage would be better utilized in games.

[timofonic]

Desktop GPUs are lagging behind these days


bridgmanagd5f
Are there plans for AMD GPUs and APUs to support this?

[FireBurn]

Yuzu avoids using this and instead use their own ATSC software decoder, I wonder if that could be adopted by Mesa instead

[Quackdoc]

this should hopefully solve a bug or two on bliss and waydroid

[agd5f]

Desktop GPUs are lagging behind these days


bridgmanagd5f
Are there plans for AMD GPUs and APUs to support this?

We've supported ASTC emulation on AMD GPUs for a long time.

[smitty3268]

Desktop GPUs are lagging behind these days


bridgmanagd5f
Are there plans for AMD GPUs and APUs to support this?

ASTC never took off anywhere but android, and I don't think there's any reason to believe it will in the future either.

So no, the current emulation is probably all you're ever going to see on desktop cards.