Intel Begins Landing Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver Ray-Tracing Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Begins Landing Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver Ray-Tracing Support

This week marked the release of Vulkan 1.2.162 with the ray-tracing extensions now finalized. As such Intel's stellar open-source team has begun landing their work around Vulkan ray-tracing ahead of the Xe HPG hardware availability that will support this functionality...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Vulkan-RT-Compiler-Lands

[tildearrow]

Is this going to be supported on the enthusiast card?

[Nille_kungen]

Is this going to be supported on the enthusiast card?

I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
The real question is rather when will Intel have a competitive enthusiast graphics card?
With other manufactures we have to wait for for the drivers to catch up but with Intel i think we will have to wait for the hardware to catch up.

[ThoreauHD]

Have to give props to Intel for not treating the OS that runs the enterprise as an afterthought. AMD has about a month or two lag time, and Nvidia is all but a rotting corpse unless AI is stamped on the hardware.

Wouldn't it be interesting if Intel's software team were to be merged with AMD's hardware/IP stack. It won't happen, but there is a possible synergy there. I guess that's life. You can't have it all until you reach the pearly gates.

[lowflyer]

I just like that interstellar quote:

Intel's stellar open-source team

[bridgman]

Have to give props to Intel for not treating the OS that runs the enterprise as an afterthought. AMD has about a month or two lag time, and Nvidia is all but a rotting corpse unless AI is stamped on the hardware.

We have code ready much earlier (typically a year or more) but the upstreaming schedule is negotiated with business/marketing teams. I think you will see the situation improve over the next year or so.