RADV Vulkan Driver Gets An On-Disk Shader Cache

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RADV Vulkan Driver Gets An On-Disk Shader Cache

The RADV Radeon Vulkan driver in Mesa now supports an on-disk shader cache...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Vulkan-Disk-Cache

[andrei_me]

tarceri do you know if the common vulkan tests used by phoronix can take advantage of this change?

[Evil Penguin]

Dota 2 should stutter less for sure.

[VikingGe]

So basically Vulkan already has a built-in shader cache feature that is ridiculously easy to use, but people are too lazy to use even that? Really?

[FishPls]

Dota 2 should stutter less for sure.

Dota 2 already does it's own shader caching.

[tarceri]

tarceri do you know if the common vulkan tests used by phoronix can take advantage of this change?

So basically Vulkan already has a built-in shader cache feature that is ridiculously easy to use, but people are too lazy to use even that? Really?

There are games, I forget which as I wrote this around 6 months ago originally. However this also allows Steam to provide a stutter free experience by providing precompiled shaders.

[ResponseWriter]

So basically Vulkan already has a built-in shader cache feature that is ridiculously easy to use, but people are too lazy to use even that? Really?

Looking at some of the bugs we've seen in ports to OpenGL, I wouldn't be surprised.

[shmerl]

What about VULKAN_HUD?