RADV Lands Fragment Shader Interlock Support - Useful For Emulators, DXVK & VKD3D

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Adds-Frag-Shader-Interlock

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TheYang@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Pretty crazy reading

AMD will never support this extension so this is bad for windows users. Nvidia supports it on opengl not sure about vk.

followed by:

AMD tends to get on board when you shame them.

in emulator pulls and a month later it exists

dodgypast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Nice to see it go in. Will please many Steam deck owners.

It's actually on my to do list to buy an AMD​ ​iGPU based machine to plug into the TV that's focused on emulation, though probably wait until the iGPUs are a bit more powerful.

TheYang@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I'd assume it makes it on the Steam Deck in SteamOS 3.6, which I'd expect to take quite a while still...
... waiting on 3.5 ...