A Modern GPGPU API & wip linux RDNA2+ Driver
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however simlifying the API though focusing on modern hardware. It is
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designed for performance and developer flexibility. Instead of piling
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on feature flags, many of which are present on >99% of GPUs, we
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determine a minimal spec required. The API is built around device addressing
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and Resizable BAR.
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determine a minimal spec required. The API is built around device addressing.
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.. _Vulkan: https://www.vulkan.org/
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We believe a big hardware paradigm-shift has been going on, while the
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traditional graphics APIs have been stuck in legacy-support mode; both
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harming driver performance and development speed. Integrated GPUs have
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UMA, and modern discrete GPUs support Resizable BAR. Buffers don't have
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types, and you usually prefer to share them. Vulkan for example usually
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forces the developer to write barriers between different resources.
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This is not how modern GPUs work, and leads to the driver inneficiencies.
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This project has taken the good parts from Mesa3D, modernized them
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into a sleek User-Mode Driver (UMD), and develops a new API.
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Minimal spec hardware:
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- Nvidia Turing (RTX 2000 series, 2018)
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