Recently, some developers have found that the source code of Radeon Vulkan's new driver RADV has appeared on Mesa, which will enable previous generations of AMD graphics cards to support Vulkan ray tracing at the driver level. This update will allow Vulkan ray tracing to be supported as early as AMD GFX6 hardware, which is AMD's GCN 1.0 component, which means that it can allow GCN graphics cards to use Vulkan ray tracing. Although there is no independent light chasing unit to run light chase will be more difficult, but it is also better than nothing.
Konstantin Seurer, an indie developer, "tried the update" and found that for specific workloads like the GravityMark benchmark, the speed of operation has increased from the original 13FPS to the current 250FPS.
And some users have already tested the update, and in some development projects that require the use of ray tracing, the addition of this technology can indeed greatly improve the user experience.
However, for ordinary gamers, it is not too optimistic, at this stage, many games are not ideal for the compatibility of this update, and it will take a while to get a better game experience.
In addition to the graphics card, AMD's motherboard also has to "fight the future". In the second half of this year, AMD will release the Zen4 architecture Ryzen™ 7000 desktop processor codenamed "Raphael", which will be in an LGA package and replace the AM5 socket according to previous revelations.
However, just recently, the external network whistleblower @KittyYYuko posted that the Raphael processor will also launch a version of the AM4 socket, which was originally scheduled to be released at the end of the summer, but may be delayed due to the impact of the epidemic. According to him, the AM4 version of the Raphael processor will support the existing AM4 motherboard, which will also support DDR4 memory.
In addition, he also revealed that the Ryzen™ 6000 mobile processor, code-named Rembrandt, will also have a desktop version, but the release date is expected to be later.
In addition, according to the news of Bobantang, AMD will release the new RX 6650 XT, 6750 XT and 6950 XT graphics cards at 9 o'clock tonight (May 10), and the starting price has been exposed:
RX 6650 XT initial price: 3099 yuan
RX 6750 XT starting price: 4299 yuan
RX 6950 XT initial price: 8399 yuan
VideoCardz also recently exposed the overseas price and release time of the 6X50 XT series, which are:
RX 6650 XT: $399 (about RMB 2680)
RX 6750 XT: USD 549
RX 6950 XT: USD 1099 (about RMB 7381)