The RDNA 3 architecture is going to be part of the RX 7000 graphics cards from AMD, which is going to be released this year. Recently, Marek Olšák, a developer at AMD’s open-source lab, has released more than 20 patches of patches in the past few days, ahead of the architecture’s full enablement.
RDNA 3: Accelerating its software enablement ahead of launch
The AMD developer patch fixes Next-Gen Geometry Stream-Out (NGG) and Transform Feedback for RDNA and RDNA 2 GPUs prior to RDNA 3 GPU NG Stream-Out enablement.
The developer was responsible for securing NGG Stream-Out functionality for the RDNA and RDNA 2 graphics architecture, this work ensures that, with the release of the RDNA 3 architecture, the open-source section will be ready for use.
Marek Olšák, one of the most important contributors to the MESA commits, has worked tirelessly with the “open-source AMD Radeon OpenGL driver developers”.
The acceleration of their work and the constancy with which they publish patches of bug fixes shows that the release is getting closer, always planned for the second half of this year 2022.
The NGG Stream-Out feature will be the company’s new geometry engine. The functionality was first seen in the Vega series but grew to its current state with the enablement of RDNA 2.
AMD‘s open-source Linux graphics driver developers are working on enabling GFX11 and RDNA 3 ahead of the release of the RX 7000 series. RADV drivers and kernel changes to Mesa RadeonSI and Linux seem to be one of AMD’s biggest concerns as we get closer to Q3 2022, which is when the RX 7000 series would launch.