The State Of The AMD RADV Vulkan Driver In Late 2025

In addition to talking about the Valve-backed open-source driver work for old AMD Radeon GPUs, Timur Kristof also presented at the XDC2025 conference on the state of the RADV Vulkan driver. Timur was joined by Daniel Schurmann to talk about the great Linux gaming experience now possible on the RADV driver with the work done by Valve, AMD, Red Hat, Google, and the open-source community. RADV ray-tracing is much better today than in the past, the ACO compiler back-end has turned out very well, and RADV is all-around a great example of an open-source Vulkan API driver...