AMD’s Latest Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Support For Phoenix APUs, Better Gaming Performance
AMD rolls out the first update for its open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver, bringing in support for Phoenix APUs to the Linux platform.
The new driver brings in support for AMD's widely known Ryzen 7040 APUs, codenamed Phoenix, being featured across several laptops and mini-PC. The new AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 also comes with a variety of fixes and performance improvements.
AMD's latest Vulkan driver also fixes issues within titles such as Wolfenstein II The New Colossus, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and X-Plane 12 flight simulator. The driver also comes with several improvements to Vulkan headers as well. The AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 can be downloaded from GitHub, and we urge all Linux users to switch to the new drivers to ensure stable performance.
It is good to see that the Linux open-source driver work for Phoenix happening in parallel with the standard driver suite. At the tail end of July, AMD released the first official Radeon drivers for Ryzen 7040 Phoenix APUs after a prolonged wait. The driver didn't add much but it is expected that more optimizations and crucial performance updates will roll out sometime later. The AMD RDNA 3 iGPU within these Phoenix APUs offers a great deal of performance for an integrated chip and has been wowing the audiences ever since it came out.
It is encouraging to see AMD working on improving its open-source resources on Linux. It was recently reported about the company's change in approach to releasing drivers in the form of "IP blocks", which we saw a glimpse of when the company released new firmware files for RDNA 3 GPU architecture. By the looks of it, AMD is continuously working to improve its resources available on Linux. We hope to see several updates being made to the Vulkan driver in the
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