RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Gets Support For Sparse Binding

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Gets Support For Sparse Binding

Bas Nieuwenhuizen's driver hacking this weekend has led to support of Vulkan's sparseBinding feature within this open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-sparseBinding-Feature

[andrei_me]

What this different allocation method brings to the table?

[VikingGe]

That is actually explained rather well in the specification itself, which is linked in the article (section "Sparse resources").
What I'm curious about is whether or not this is limited to Vega and newer GPUs. The Windows driver doesn't report sparse binding as supported on my RX 480.

[pal666]

What I'm curious about is whether or not this is limited to Vega and newer GPUs.

i'm pretty sure bas has no vega. it is not limited to vega, though vega has better(hardware) implementation