AMDVLK
AMD Open Source Driver For Vulkan (by GPUOpen-Drivers)
pal
Platform Abstraction Library (by GPUOpen-Drivers)
AMDVLK | pal | |
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57 | 11 | |
1,655 | 336 | |
0.5% | 0.6% | |
5.1 | 5.6 | |
about 1 month ago | 24 days ago | |
Python | C++ | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
AMDVLK
Posts with mentions or reviews of AMDVLK.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
- How do graphics APIs work?
- AMDVLK Release v-2023.Q2.2
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Zajímalo by mě, co máte za operační systém na zařízení na kterém právě vidíte tuto anketu.
Budeš je muset sám compilenout z open source kódu.
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Read dead redemption 2 crashes entire system during benchmark
If RADV hangs rdr2 at the moment you can temporarily switch to amdvlk, you can also switch on a game-to-game basis without rebooting or anything. You can get it from the release section of their github: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK. But keep in mind that amdvlk will make itself the default as long as you have it installed.
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Proof 7900XTX VR issues ARE due to a driver problem, not hardware (Linux v. Windows timing graphs)
Other parts of the stack can be released, and I'd bet anything that AMD's vulkan driver, amdvlk, is at least very similar to the windows implementation, just with a different PAL backed by whatever the windows systems are instead of libdrm.
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Steam games using Vulkan fail to launch
Switching from RADV to AMDVLK fixed the issue. I haven't noticed any performance differences once the shaders are compiled.
- RADV Driver Sees Dramatic Improvement To Reduce CPU Overhead For Draw Calls
- AMDVLK V-2022.Q3.4 with RayTracing support
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Problem with deep rock galactic
Looks like an issue with a more recent version of amdvlk (https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/issues/278). Some people resolved by uninstalling amdvlk, but I was able to launch it with amdvlk still installed by using the launch options settings I've provided with this report.
pal
Posts with mentions or reviews of pal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
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Where is FSR 3 ?
Journalists (mainly the clickbait blog sort) misreported a code change from one viral tweet that there would be up to '4 interpolated frames', which is unsurprising when they aren't programmers and per the code's readme, it's used as a way to translate between the GPU and graphic APIs like DirectX, and even states "PAL client drivers will have no HW-specific code".
- Coding Standards for the AMD Platform Abstraction Library (PAL)
- How do graphics APIs work?
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Why does DXVK have such good performance?
It's not like an DX api call is free on native drivers, DXVK implements D3D9-11 on top of vulkan, native drivers probably on top of their own abstraction, like e.g. PAL for AMD. So DXVK is more constrained in what it can do (only what's possible with vulkan), but doesn't necessarily have massively more overhead on every api call compared to native drivers.
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23.3.2 amd drivers release notes.
https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/pal is a big chunk of the Windows driver that is open source. The history is pruned and so is the windows backend though.
- Ditch DirectX: It’s time to start using Vulkan with PC games
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Resources for trying out Graphics driver development :
Look at the comments in pal.h to get an idea of what the API does. https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/pal/blob/dev/inc/core/pal.h
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dear nvidia driver developers.
That's the wrong repo for AMDVLK. You have to look at these https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/llpc https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/xgl https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/pal And this is also just the user space vulkan driver that nobody uses, the real driver you should look at is radv, which was initially written by red hat and Bas Nieuwenhuizen, and is maintained by Bas (afaiu as a hobby) and a team of Valve contractors. And then there's radeonsi, which is now mostly maintained by AMD, but has seen a lot of third party contributors over the years, and amdgpu + the display stack, which is mostly worked on by AMD.
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How do I get into graphics programming/computer graphics?
AMD's PAL layer is also interesting: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/pal
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[Phoronix] Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Performance For July 2021
The problem of AMDVLK is that while it is open sourced, the development of it is not open, like at all. The code gets regularly dumped from an internal repo to GitHub, yet no one knows why this got added, and why that got removed unless they dig deep into the code. Look at this commit list.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AMDVLK and pal you can also consider the following projects:
mesa - Mesa 3D graphics library (read-only mirror of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/)
xgl - Vulkan API Layer
yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator
llpc - LLVM-Based Pipeline Compiler
vulkan-guide - Introductory guide to vulkan.
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications
proton-ge-custom - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
llvm-project - The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
RayTracingInVulkan - Implementation of Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing In One Weekend book using Vulkan and NVIDIA's RTX extension.