v-2021.Q2.3

Driver installation instruction

2021-5-17 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.2.177
• CPU performance optimization for pipeline binning
• Shader compilation time optimization
• Extend format support on Wayland
• Performance optimization for Dawn of War 3 and Civilization 6

Issue fix

• Some Vulkan apps ignoring previously created shader cache and creating new duplicate cache
• Segfaults in CmdBufferLogger

v-2021.Q2.2

Driver installation instruction

2021-4-28 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Vulkan Headers to 1.2.174
• Support dynamic enable of color writes
• Add partial nested cmd buffer support to GpuDebug layer

Issue fix

• [AMDVLK issue #187] AMDVLK give out of memory errors when no AMD GPU installed
• [AMDVLK issue #204] DCC incorrectly enabled for certain format lists
• Few applications are running with llvmpipe driver by default with AMD switchable graphics layer

v-2021.Q2.1

Driver installation instruction

2021-4-7 update

New feature and improvement

• Add Navi12 support
• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.2.173
• Enable AMD switchable graphics layer and fix potential issues

Issue fix

• Memory leak on create device queues failure
• Memory leak on create failures with layers enabled

v-2021.Q1.6

Driver installation instruction

2021-3-19 update

New feature and improvement

• Add Navi22 support

v-2021.Q1.5

Driver installation instruction

2021-3-12 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable extension VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion
• Enable extension VK_KHR_synchronization2
• Enable extension VK_EXT_4444_formats
• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.2.170
• Use upstream vmid support
• [GpuDebug] Add Surface Capture functionality

Issue fix

• Performance drop with Re-Size bar enabled

v-2021.Q1.4

Driver installation instruction

2021-2-25 update

New feature and improvement

• Update API version to 1.2.169
• Mad Max: Performance tuning

v-2021.Q1.3

Driver installation instruction

2021-2-8 update

New feature and improvement

• War Thunder : Performance tuning
• Update Vulkan API version to 1.2.168

v-2021.Q1.2

Driver installation instruction

2021-1-29 update

New feature and improvement

• Performance tuning for Doom Eternal, Doom, Wolfenstein II, Wolfenstein-Youngblood on Navi21
• Update api version to 1.2.167

Issue fix

• Vulkaninfo crash when VK_LAYER_AMD_switchable_graphics enabled
• [RGP] Crash if instance fails to acquire debug VMID

v-2021.Q1.1

Driver installation instruction

2021-1-6 update

New feature and improvement

• Add AMD switchable graphics layer to switch AMD Vulkan driver between amdvlk and RADV
• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.2.164
• Navi21 performance tuning for game X-Plane, Madmax, Talos Principle, Rise of Tomb Raider, F12017

Issue fix

• RPCS3 Corruption observed on Game window on Navi10

v-2020.Q4.6

Driver installation instruction

2020-12-14 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Vulkan API version to 1.2.162
• Performance tuning for Shadow of the Tomb Raider on Navi21
• Enable extension VK_EXT_shader_terminate_invocation
• Enable extension VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate

Issue fix

• [AMDVLK issue #179] Corruption in X-Plane 11.50