"AMD's Open-Source RADV Driver Achieves Up to 200% Ray-Tracing Performance Boost"
AMD Radeon GPUs have received significant ray tracing performance boosts with the latest MESA RADV Vulkan drivers, outperforming AMD's own "AMDVLK" drivers. The MESA 24.0 update, which has been in development for about a month, includes optimizations that better utilize GPU threads, leading to performance improvements. Notable gains include up to a 200% increase in ray tracing performance on the Radeon RX 7900 XT and substantial improvements across various games on the RX 6700 XT. The MESA RADV driver is becoming a strong competitor to AMD's proprietary drivers on Linux, thanks to continuous optimizations and support for older hardware.