Performance-Boosting HiZ Patches Revised For Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Performance-Boosting HiZ Patches Revised For Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver

A revised set of 11 patches were published this week for implementing basic HiZ (Hierarchical Z) support within Intel's open-source Vulkan "ANV" Mesa driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HiZ-Intel-Vulkan-V2

[LeJimster]

I take it these patches may help radv too since its heavily based on the Intel Vulkan driver?

Its kinda funny seeing Intel code benefitting AMD in the GPU space.

[smitty3268]

I take it these patches may help radv too since its heavily based on the Intel Vulkan driver?

Its kinda funny seeing Intel code benefitting AMD in the GPU space.

No, HiZ is highly hardware specific, no code can be shared between the drivers.

Radv will be able to look at HiZ code from the radeonsi GL driver code, though.

[geearf]

Its kinda funny seeing Intel code benefitting AMD in the GPU space.

A lot of Intel's mesa code has benefitted AMD in the past, it's not like that a new thing