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[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What do these acronyms mean?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

AMD Advanced Micro Devices

VLK Vulkan

RADV Radeon Vulkan

RADV is the open source community driver everyone uses. AMDVLK was the official AMD open source driver rarely anyone used

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

AMDVLK was the official AMD open source driver rarely anyone used

Depends, if you installed both AMDVLK and RADV, AMDVLK would be the default unless you changed your default Vulkan icd loader. Maybe distros where you don't have to do a lot of DIY and more focused in gaming then RADV was the default. But other distros went with upstream defaults.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Was wondering when this would finally happen, thought it was going to happen years ago