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AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 Improves Raspberry Pi Support

([Radeon] 2 Hours Ago Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1)


AMD by way of their GPUOpen group have released version 3.1 of the open-source Vulkan Memory Allocator.

The GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator is a library that aims to make it easier to handle memory/resource allocation with various helpers and removing the need for a lot of redundant/boilerplate code. With this morning's Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 release, there is improved support for non-AMD GPUs. In particular, the Raspberry Pi graphics with the V3DV Vulkan driver is one of the non-AMD GPUs to benefit for configurations lacking no HOST_CACHED memory type.

Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 in addition to better GPU compatibility also has compiler compatibility improvements. Plus this new release adds support for the Vulkan VK_KHR_maintenance4 / VK_KHR_maintenance5 extensions, adds a few new convenience functions, and other additions.

Downloads and more details on the v3.1 release via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/VulkanMemoryAllocator/releases/tag/v3.1.0


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