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Vulkan update: we're conformant!
In June we released the source code for our prototype driver, and last month we announced that the driver had been successfully merged to Mesa upstream.
Today we have some very exciting news to share: as of 24 November the V3DV Vulkan Mesa driver for Raspberry Pi 4 has demonstrated Vulkan 1.0 conformance.
Khronos describes the conformance process as a way to ensure that its standards are consistently implemented by multiple vendors, so as to create a reliable platform for application developers. For each standard, Khronos provides a large conformance test suite (CTS) that implementations must pass successfully to be declared conformant; in the case of Vulkan 1.0, the CTS contains over 100,000 tests.
Vulkan 1.0 conformance is a major milestone in bringing Vulkan to Raspberry Pi, but it isn't the end of the journey. Our team continues to work on all fronts to expand the Vulkan feature set, improve performance, and fix bugs. So stay tuned for future Vulkan updates!
Also at CNX Software.
See also: Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland
Raspberry Pi V3DV Is Officially Vulkan Conformant, Lavapipe Also Nearing 1.0 Conformance
Previously: Raspberry Pi Foundation Begins Working on Vulkan Driver
Raspberry Pi 4 Gets 8 GB RAM Model, Also 64-bit OS and USB Boot (Both in Beta)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday November 26 2020, @04:17PM (3 children)
For the Raspberry Pi 4, which will no doubt need an even bigger heatsink to run that thing.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday November 26 2020, @04:33PM (2 children)
Wrong:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/app/uploads/2019/11/Raspberry-Pi-4-Power-Draw-6.png [raspberrypi.org]
https://www.raspberrypi.org/app/uploads/2019/11/Time-to-Throttle.png [raspberrypi.org]
Source: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/thermal-testing-raspberry-pi-4/ [raspberrypi.org]
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 26 2020, @10:49PM (1 child)
Dubious: testing thermal response with something so basic as glxgears for the "stress" doesn't provide reliable info for amount of "vulkanism" required to "kool down" when running something non-trivial [binarytides.com] or heavy [unigine.com].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 27 2020, @01:52AM
Running at 1.5 GHz even in the plastic oven case should be fine now. A game on RasPi 4 might stress the very weak GPU at 100%, but probably not the CPU at 100% at the same time.
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