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RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code (www.phoronix.com)
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MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/24587

tl;dr big performance improvement in ray tracing on AMD cards coming, with the dev claiming a 3x performance boost in Hitman 3.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Wait, AMD can raytrace on Linux? All the games I play on my 6800xt have the raytracing graphics options disabled.

Edit: I'm an idiot, I forgot the 7xxx series has actual RT cores.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I case you want to try it out, the setting I've used in Steam was:

RADV_PERFTEST=rt VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11 %command%

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