RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1

Down to literally minutes before the Mesa 24.1 codebase was branched for making up this quarter's Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver to then be tested and stabilized with a stable release around mid-May, a number of AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver patches were merged...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-Whole-Improvements

[caligula]

Are there any driver improvements for older gen Navi and Polaris? Like 400, 500, and 5000 series.

[Dukenukemx]

In before Zink fans jump in and get angry over RadeonSi improvements.

[mibo]

Hope, that 7800XT is then faster than a 6800XT.

[user1]

In before Zink fans jump in and get angry over RadeonSi improvements.

They're just altruists. Instead of enjoying the most performance out of their hardware (in case of AMD), they'll rather have worse performance and be happy about the fact that developers will not have to "waste their precious time" on native OpenGL drivers.

[tildearrow]

Are there any driver improvements for older gen Navi and Polaris? Like 400, 500, and 5000 series.

Poor Vega...

[Daktyl198]

Are there any driver improvements for older gen Navi and Polaris? Like 400, 500, and 5000 series.

Don't all of those cards use the AMDGPU driver? This is the RadeonSI driver, which is for cards even older than those.

[nuetzel]

I would've loved if he got this in before branch point:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/28846

mareko Any hope?

Compiling, now...

[JustK]

Don't all of those cards use the AMDGPU driver? This is the RadeonSI driver, which is for cards even older than those.

You're confusing kernel drivers with mesa drivers. The former handle hardware access, the latter implement user space APIs like OpenGL, Vulkan, etc. The OpenGL driver for older ATI/AMD cards would be r600.

[MrCooper]

You're confusing kernel drivers with mesa drivers.

There's never been a kernel driver (or anything else outside of Mesa) named radeonsi though.