News AMD's Older Radeon GPUs Get Ray Tracing Support on Linux

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[ezst036]

I love open source drivers so much. I feel bad for my fellow Windows users that you have so many limitations placed on you by Microsoft and placed on you by the outmoded closed source driver model that we just don't have here on the Linux side.(Unless you have Nvidia, but we know what Linus said about that.)

And Valve deserves huge amounts of praise for their work in open source as well. There isn't enough to be said for what they have done to make Linux into a first-class gaming platform.

 

[Deleted member 1353997]

I feel bad for my fellow Windows users that you have so many limitations placed on you by Microsoft and placed on you by the outmoded closed source driver model that we just don't have here on the Linux side.

I feel bad for my fellow Linux user, who didn't know that Windows has had the exact same kind of driver for Nvidia GTX cards since 2019, and felt like blaming Microsoft for AMDs lack of driver support.
I also feel bad for that same user, who decided to ignore one of the biggest GPU manufacturers in the world, just so they could avoid having to feel bad for themselves.

 

[hotaru.hino]

I love open source drivers so much. I feel bad for my fellow Windows users that you have so many limitations placed on you by Microsoft and placed on you by the outmoded closed source driver model that we just don't have here on the Linux side.(Unless you have Nvidia, but we know what Linus said about that.)

How is it Microsoft's fault for a company that basically gave the cold shoulder even though they promised that it would support ray tracing on all of its DX12 compatible GPUs?

 

[renz496]

I love open source drivers so much. I feel bad for my fellow Windows users that you have so many limitations placed on you by Microsoft and placed on you by the outmoded closed source driver model that we just don't have here on the Linux side.(Unless you have Nvidia, but we know what Linus said about that.)

And Valve deserves huge amounts of praise for their work in open source as well. There isn't enough to be said for what they have done to make Linux into a first-class gaming platform.

Lol this kind of elitist attitude that makes linux unable to dominate desktop market. Also while people often highlight those middle finger moment for nvidia by linus most often they choose to forget a year later linus also giving his thumbs up about nvidia open source driver effort on tegra.

 

[VforV]

1st FSR for all GPUs, now RT for all GPUs, GJ AMD.

I don't expect RT to run well on old hardware, but the thought is nice, the intention is good.

Hey nvidia do you still "care about gamers"?

Ah, so much love from nvidia for all gamers and all their generations of customers...

 

[hotaru.hino]

1st FSR for all GPUs, now RT for all GPUs, GJ AMD.

I don't expect RT to run well on old hardware, but the thought is nice, the intention is good.

Hey nvidia do you still "care about gamers"?

Ah, so much love from nvidia for all gamers and all their generations of customers...

You do realize AMD didn't actually make these driver changes right?

Also NVIDIA likely contributed mostly to the standardization of the ray tracing extensions to Vulkan, since they had something on it first. Especially considering that the person in charge of the ray tracing parts is an NVIDIA employee.

On that note, look at how many NVIDIA employees are there.

 

[renz496]

1st FSR for all GPUs, now RT for all GPUs, GJ AMD.

I don't expect RT to run well on old hardware, but the thought is nice, the intention is good.

Hey nvidia do you still "care about gamers"?

Ah, so much love from nvidia for all gamers and all their generations of customers...

This is done by open source driver community not AMD. This project aims to make RT works down to polaris based GPU on linux. if you ask AMD they probably have no interest at all to make VulkanRT work on those old GPU. I'm not sure about nvidia but on windows side of thing they already support DXR down to pascal.

 

[snowthingy]

Lol this kind of elitist attitude that makes linux unable to dominate desktop market. Also while people often highlight those middle finger moment for nvidia by linus most often they choose to forget a year later linus also giving his thumbs up about nvidia open source driver effort on tegra.

Some Linux users seem to be upset with nVidia.
I think one of the reasons is that they want an open source driver from nVidia and probably the reason for this is by design, the Linux kernel needs drivers to be compiled into the kernel.
Without the source code, it probably makes programming the kernel, making changes to the kernel difficult.

I think the proper approach is to do what Microsoft has done. Define an API, create a DDK.
The kernel should expect a certain feature set from a printer driver, a scanner driver, a sound card, a video card, etc. The companies write their drivers as DLL files or whatever extension you want to give them.
Thus, Microsoft doesn’t need access to anyone else’s driver source code.

I assume that a lot of companies don’t want to follow the philosophy of Linux and so, they never will write drivers for Linux. Linux programmers have to reverse engineer and figure out how thousands of devices work.
if I am right, it makes the lives of Linux kernel developers very difficult.


I have become a Linux user recently, but I find the insistence of everything being open sourced unrealistic in a capitalistic market.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux. I have been using Kubuntu for 2 years. I ported my mini apps to Linux and they are open source.
But you can’t force everyone to open source their products.