Open-Source RADV Driver Begins Working To Improve AMD RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Performance

Open-Source RADV Driver Begins Working To Improve AMD RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Performance

While the Radeon RX 9070 series as the first of the AMD RDNA4 graphics cards do perform well on Linux, the one area the performance has been less enticing remains with Vulkan ray-tracing while using the Mesa RADV driver. For example, AMDVLK vs. RADV on the RX 9070 series shows the Mesa driver struggling with ray-tracing compared to the official AMD driver. But the good news is there's a concerted effort now to improve the AMD RDNA4 ray-tracing p…