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8/4/2025, 1:56:41 AM
Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new extension from AMD.
VK_AMDX_dense_geometry_format is the new experimental AMD vendor extension in Vulkan 1.4.324. VK_AMDX_dense_geometry_format is for providing the ability to build ray-tracing acceleration structures from pre-compressed Dense Geometry Format geometry data.
Dense Geometry Format "DGF" was developed by AMD as a means of compressing triangle meshes for more efficient hardware ray-tracing. Those curious about the Dense Geometry Format can read the DGF whitepaper from last year. AMD also maintains the DGF SDK as part of GPUOpen and is fully open-source software. There is also this blog post from earlier in the year covering more about Dense Geometry Format for helping the AMD ray-tracing efforts.
>>717215123
Arch isn't any different to CachyOS really, it's just more optimized for performance and of course gaming. One notable thing is that in Arch you have to manually install an AUR helper but recently CachyOS added paru and now it's usable out of the box. Pretty cool.
VK_AMDX_dense_geometry_format is the new experimental AMD vendor extension in Vulkan 1.4.324. VK_AMDX_dense_geometry_format is for providing the ability to build ray-tracing acceleration structures from pre-compressed Dense Geometry Format geometry data.
Dense Geometry Format "DGF" was developed by AMD as a means of compressing triangle meshes for more efficient hardware ray-tracing. Those curious about the Dense Geometry Format can read the DGF whitepaper from last year. AMD also maintains the DGF SDK as part of GPUOpen and is fully open-source software. There is also this blog post from earlier in the year covering more about Dense Geometry Format for helping the AMD ray-tracing efforts.
>>717215123
Arch isn't any different to CachyOS really, it's just more optimized for performance and of course gaming. One notable thing is that in Arch you have to manually install an AUR helper but recently CachyOS added paru and now it's usable out of the box. Pretty cool.
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