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AMDVLK (AMD Open Source Driver For Vulkan) project is discontinued

AMDVLK (AMD Open Source Driver For Vulkan) project is discontinued

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·September 17, 2025
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-Discontinued

> 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.

shmerl

What will AMD do with Windows Vulkan driver, didn't they use amdvlk there? There was some radv on Windows experiment, it would be cool if AMD would use that.

trynumber9

No, it was a third driver.

Per AMD

>Notably, AMD's closed-source Vulkan driver currently uses a different pipeline compiler, which is the major difference between AMD's open-source and closed-source Vulkan drivers.

shmerl

Why are they using different compilers?