Today AMD releases its Open Source Driver for Vulkan, created for Radeon graphics adapters on Linux.

Available now, the AMD Vulkan Open Source Driver accelerates open-source Vulkan development on Linux, giving users access to the Radeon GPU profile toolkit, allowing for seamless integration of AMD’s Vulkan extensions and enabling third party contributions.

The driver is built on top of AMD’s Platform Abstraction Library (PAL), a shared component that is designed to encapsulate certain hardware and OS-specific programming details for many of AMD’s 3D and compute drivers, to provide a consistent experience across platforms, including support for recently released GPUs and compatibility with AMD developer tools.

Supported features include:

– Vulkan 1.0
– More than 30 extensions
– Radeon GPU Profiler tracing
– Built-in debug and profiling tools
– Mid-command buffer preemption and SR-IOV virtualization

AMD Vulkan Open Source Driver supports the Ubuntu 16.04.3 (64-bit version) and RedHat 7.4 (64-bit version) operating systems. You can find the source code repositories here.

The full Vulkan Open Source Readme PDF is shared out at this link.

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