AMD RadeonSI Driver Enables OpenGL Sparse Texture Support For RDNA4 GPUs
([Radeon] 24 July 06:41 AM EDT
Sparse Textures)
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Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his latest set of 16 patches into Mesa 25.3-devel for enhancing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. Notable here is getting OpenGL sparse textures working on the latest Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4/GFX12 graphics cards.
Marek has been working on some LLVM integration clean-ups, some NIR improvements, and other code fixes as part of [1]this patch series . What's notable from there is now [2]enabling sparse textures on GFX12 hardware, a.k.a. the Radeon RX 9000 / RDNA4 GPUs.
The sparse textures support was late for RDNA4 but alas this is only for RadeonSI / OpenGL and ultimately not too important these days compared to Vulkan. In any case with Mesa 25.3-devel the RadeonSI sparse texture support is now working for these newest AMD GPUs.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/35950
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/35950/diffs?commit_id=321c8ee8d109e7a65aeda43c7a9d9d808a8dc1a9
Marek has been working on some LLVM integration clean-ups, some NIR improvements, and other code fixes as part of [1]this patch series . What's notable from there is now [2]enabling sparse textures on GFX12 hardware, a.k.a. the Radeon RX 9000 / RDNA4 GPUs.
The sparse textures support was late for RDNA4 but alas this is only for RadeonSI / OpenGL and ultimately not too important these days compared to Vulkan. In any case with Mesa 25.3-devel the RadeonSI sparse texture support is now working for these newest AMD GPUs.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/35950
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/35950/diffs?commit_id=321c8ee8d109e7a65aeda43c7a9d9d808a8dc1a9
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