Mesa's LLVMpipe + Lavapipe Land FP16 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa's LLVMpipe + Lavapipe Land FP16 Support

The latest work landing for Mesa 21.3 is supporting FP16 within the LLVM-based software driver code namely for the LLVMpipe Gallium3D OpenGL and Lavapipe Vulkan drivers...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVMpipe-Lavapipe-FP16

[tildearrow]

Is there any game that uses FP16? (other than maybe for the display format)

[Nille]

Is there any game that uses FP16? (other than maybe for the display format)

Many, i remember a GDC Talk from Ubisoft. They use FP16 in Farcry 5 for water simulations. Many Games used optimized Code for lights and shadows with FP16.
AMD uses it for super resolution and for there rapid packed math.