{"id":427696,"date":"2025-09-16T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427696\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:42:12","slug":"amd-officially-confirms-the-end-of-the-amdvlk-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427696\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RADEON\"
\nTo no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK<\/a> driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux.<\/p>\n

Back in May AMD announced they would begin officially supporting the Mesa RADV driver<\/a> as part of their packaged Radeon Software for Linux. In turn they would be dropping their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers from Radeon Software for Linux. <\/p>\n

Since then there have not been any new AMDVLK releases. Earlier this month I called it dead within Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release<\/a>. Today it’s been officially confirmed that the AMDVLK driver is discontinued. <\/p>\n

\"Radeon<\/p>\n

Via the AMDVLK GitHub<\/a>:
\n<\/p>\n

“In a move to streamline development and strengthen our commitment to the open-source community, AMD is unifying its Linux Vulkan driver strategy and has decided to discontinue the AMDVLK open-source project, throwing our full support behind the RADV driver as the officially supported open-source Vulkan driver for Radeon\u2122 graphics adapters. <\/p>\n

This consolidation allows us to focus our resources on a single, high-performance codebase that benefits from the incredible work of the entire open-source community. We invite developers and users alike to utilize the RADV driver and contribute to its future.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a good but long overdue decision by AMD. RADV has long been more popular with gamers\/enthusiasts on Linux than their own official driver. Thanks to Valve, Google, Red Hat, and others, RADV has evolved very nicely. More recently with the Vulkan ray-tracing maturing well and other remaining gaps addressed for workstation, compute, and other areas, it only makes sense now going all-in on RADV for AMD Vulkan support on Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2228,2227,2225,2224,2231,2229,2226,2230,2223,2234,53,2232,2233,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-427696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115211439015995501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}