Vulkan API Improvements Coming For The AMD Polaris GPUs With Mesa RADV

What happened

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has done an incredible job improving older AMD GPU (a chip built for many calculations at once, used for graphics and AI) support under Linux with migrating GCN 1.0/1.1 era hardware to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver and an assortment of other improvements for various older Radeon GPUs. AMD is an electrical and semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, founded in 1969, and its products and services include computer hardware and graphics processing units.