v-2020.Q3.1

Driver installation instruction

2020-7-10 update

New feature and improvement

• Add support for extension: VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
• Performance tuning for The Talos Principle in ultra mode
• Performance tuning for Doom: Eternal
• Performance tuning for Mad Max
• Update api version to 1.2.145

v-2020.Q2.6

Driver installation instruction

2020-6-30 update

New feature and improvement

• Add support for extension: VK_GOOGLE_user_type
• Performance tuning for Ghost Recon Breakpoint
• Performance tuning for Zombie Army 4: Dead War
• Improve performance of pipeline compiler by using PipelineAbiReader instead of Processor
• Update api version to 1.2.143

v-2020.Q2.5

Driver installation instruction

2020-6-24 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable vkGetDeviceQueue2
• Make CmdCopyImageGraphics faster
• Add VK_COMPOSITE_ALPHA_PRE_MULTIPLIED_BIT_KHR in supportedCompositeAlpha

Issue fix

• Randr lease display is broken
• Driver crashes when setting basePipelineHandle to an invalid value
• Nullptr crash and some memtracker errors in the GPU profiler
• AMDVLK sets timezone to GMT+0 which affected in-game clock

v-2020.Q2.4

Driver installation instruction

2020-5-28 update

New feature and improvement

• Improve memory allocation for systems that have no local invisible memory
• Turn off command buffer prefetch for local memory
• Use backend optimization for kills

Issue fix

• Vulkan RGP instruction tracing is not working
• LlpcOptions doesn't work when pipeline cache is enabled
• Issues in OpAtomicIDecrement and OpAtomicIIncrement for shader_image_atomic_int64 extension
• Out of bounds reads in ElfWriter

v-2020.Q2.3

Driver installation instruction

2020-5-14 update

New feature and improvement

• Support VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_cache_control extension
• Remove optimization that sinks arithmetic out of "if" blocks
• Remove waTessIncorrectRelativeIndex workaround
• Optimizations for SubgroupShuffleXor() function
• Update api_version to 1.2.139

Issue fix

• External memory CTS tests failure on platform that doesn't have local invisible heap
• Trackmania 2 glitchy graphical issue

v-2020.Q2.2

Driver installation instruction

2020-4-30 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable pipeline binary cache by default
• Support VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_PROTECTED_BIT
• Shadow of Tomb Raider benchmark performance tuning

Issue fix

• ANGLE conformance test functional_transform_feedback crash
• [RGP] incorrect start/stop frame/tag values reported back to SQTT file
• EDID parsing bugs for HDR support

v-2020.Q2.1

Driver installation instruction

2020-4-16 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable Renoir support
• Update api version to 1.2.135
• Add limitation on cache directory size
• Add panel setting to disable AMD Vendor extensions

Issue fix

• The issue that scratch allocations, once multiplied for wave size, could be under the WaveSize granularity

v-2020.Q1.4

Driver installation instruction

2020-3-26 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable Immediate and Mailbox mode for direct display

Issue fix

• SPM issues

v-2020.Q1.3

Driver installation instruction

2020-3-12 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable flip by default
• Support VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage extension
• Support VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment extension
• Support VK_KHR_non_semantic_info extension
• Performance tuning for Thrones of Britannia, Talos principle and Serious sam
• Update api version to 1.2.133

Issue fix

• Corruption in non power of two compressed textures on Gfx9 and Gfx10 when using the CopyImage2DMipLevel shader

v-2020.Q1.2

Driver installation instruction

2020-2-21 update

New feature and improvement

• Update api version to 1.2.131
• Disable VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT for images with YUV format
• Support barrier for streamout buffer
• Add a new type FmaskOnly for Image MetadataMode which makes color msaa Image only have Cmask/Fmask metadata
• Avoid issue TCC metadata cache invalidation for image without metadata
• Allow compressed copySrc layout for color msaa image that supports MetaDataTexFetch
• Add wave32 support for indirect command generator dispatches
• Disable DCC on mipmap array resource by default and adjust the UseDCC validation logic

Issue fix

• Vk GPA extension not returning correct return code
• Clearing 3D image views (created from 3D PRT images) via clear load ops does not work as expected
• Image corruption during memory defrag copy (Corrupt non power of 2 textures)
• Random failure with XFBCaptureAndVerifyOnHost test cases when using vkDrawIndirectByteCountEXT() draw calls
• A minor logic error causing a whole bunch of extra updates to DCC state metadata inside PAL barriers
• A bug of DCC constant encoding
• CTS 1.2 api.image_clearing..clear_depth_stencil_ random failures on Linux for asics before gfx10