Mesa 21.3 Lands Initial Radeon Ray-Tracing Support In Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 21.3 Lands Initial Radeon Ray-Tracing Support In Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver

Landing overnight into Mesa 21.3 was experimentally enabling the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions within the open-source Radeon "RADV" driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-21.3-RADV-Ray-Tracing

[mphuZ]

Well.. Soon we will have two RT implementations in Open-Source drivers, when AMD will update their AMDVLK...

[dlq84]

I'm just happy if it's ready for the 7000-series next year. RT performance is pretty bad on 6000 on windows too.

[uid313]

I wish there were some free, open source game with support for ray tracing.

[baka0815]

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Great work BNieuwenhuizen !

[dlq84]

I wish there were some free, open source game with support for ray tracing.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX It's free and GPL-2

[QwertyChouskie]

I wish there were some free, open source game with support for ray tracing.

When SuperTuxKart gets its renderer re-written in Vulkan, it's always possible that ray-tracing could be added. I'm hoping so personally, I need to put my laptop's RTX 3060 to good use :P

[cb88]

Well.. Soon we will have two RT implementations in Open-Source drivers, when AMD will update their AMDVLK...

3 Technically since Nvidia has one also even if it is a blob...

[cb88]

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX It's free and GPL-2

Unfortunately this is coded fairly close to Nvidia hardware so tends to run badly on AMD for no real reason.

[uid313]

When SuperTuxKart gets its renderer re-written in Vulkan, it's always possible that ray-tracing could be added. I'm hoping so personally, I need to put my laptop's RTX 3060 to good use :P

Personally I wish SuperTux would use a cel-shading renderer like used in Warsow to get it a more cartoonish/playful look.