Amd launches amdvlk
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AMD released the AMDVLK drivers for Linux. These are the first open source AMD Radeon graphics drivers with 100% support for Vulkan Graphics API 1.0.
AMDVLK is now available for Linux
The Vulkan API had already debuted in some PC games, one of the best known was DOOM last year and it promises higher performance than DirectX 12. So far, its Linux support was not being very widespread and AMD wants to change that, with AMDVLK drivers.
Drivers include Vulkan 1.0 support, with corresponding support for 30 Vulkan extensions, support for Radeon GPU Profiler, built-in debugging and profiling tools, prevention of medium command buffers, and support for SR-IOV virtualization.
The driver also includes PAL (Platform Abstraction Library) which translates much of AMD's driver code and common features across all platforms.
The new AMDVLK drivers can be used on all graphics cards that have the Graphics CoreNext architecture, that is, from the Radeon HD 7000 series onwards in all Linux operating systems (well, not all exactly).
This should give a little nudge to the rapid adoption of Vulkan, a low-level API that was intended as the replacement for OpenGL. AMDVLK can be downloaded directly from AMD's GPUOpen GitHub repository. The supported operating systems are Ubuntu 16.04.3 and RedHat 7.4, both in their 64-bit versions, apparently the drivers do not work in 32-bit operating systems.
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