29 September 2025 to 1 October 2025
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A love song for gamers with old GPUs

29 Sep 2025, 17:55
5m
Lightning Talk (5 minutes) Lightning Talk Lightning Talks

Speaker

Timur Kristóf (Valve)

Description

Both RADV (the Mesa Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs) and AMDGPU (the Linux kernel driver for AMD GPUs) were started at a time when the first GCN GPUs were still relevant. That might make you think that GCN 1-2 and other GPUs from that era are working well with Linux by now, but the truth is... complicated.

This lightning talk will go over some of our recent efforts to improve support for GCN 1-2 era GPUs and present the current state of Linux user experience on these GPUs. I would also like to spark a conversation with the audience about opinions and expectations around old GPU support.

GSoC, EVoC or Outreachy No
In-person or virtual presentation In-person
Code of Conduct Yes

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