After working hard, Mesa 24.0 was successfully merged into the open-source Vulkan driver on January 06, 2024, significantly improving the ray tracing of the Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” in multiple games. performance.
According to reports, this merger only modified about 100 lines of code in the RADV and AMD ACO compilers, but it has achieved a significant improvement in ray tracing performance in some games. For example, “Phantom Line: Tokyo” showed at least about 30% performance promotion.
Adriano Martins used the Radeon RX 6700 XT to test and found that the ray tracing performance of most games has been improved by 10% to 75%.
- 58FPS 67 FPS (+15.51%), Ratchet and Clank: Time Jump
- 36FPS 55 FPS (+52.77%), Ghost Line: Tokyo
- 21FPS 35 FPS (+66.66%), Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- 38FPS 42 FPS (+10.52%),The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- 15FPS 23 FPS (+53.33%),Bright Memory: Infinite
- 8FPS 14 FPS (+75.00%), Sackboy’s Adventures
For now, the RADV driver is the first choice for users of Linux AMD graphics cards. This driver will be continuously updated and regularly improved to optimize all aspects including performance.
Unlike AMD’s proprietary AMDVLK, it uses the Mesa project’s RADV driver, changes to which are made explicit by each Linux distribution channel.
