v-2019.Q2.5

Driver installation instruction

2019-6-6 update

New feature and improvement

• Update SDK headers to 1.1.109
• Enable Scratch Bounds Checking for GFX9
• VK_MEMORY_OVERALLOCATION_BEHAVIOR_ALLOWED_AMD: add support for the attachment image Vulkan memory type
• Optimizations for acquire-release barrier

Issue fix

• F1 2018 hang on gfx9
• Some acquire-release barrier issues
• World War Z - black patches corruption

v-2019.Q2.4

Driver installation instruction

2019-5-24 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable VK_EXT_host_query_reset extension
• Enable VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage extension
• Enable VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout extension
• Reduce optimizations run by llpc
• Support merge ELF binary for per stage cache and enable per-stage-shader cache
• Remove ETC2 support from GFXIP 8.1
• Update api_version to 1.1.108

Issue fix

• DiRT Rally 2.0 corruption
• DiRT 4 flickering
• Block corruption in Witcher3
• DiRT Rally 2.0 hang with ultra settings
• dEQP-VK.binding_model.descriptorset_random.sets32.unifindexed.ubolimithigh.sbolimitlow.imglimithigh.noiub.frag.0 failure

v-2019.Q2.3

Driver installation instruction

2019-5-12 update

New feature and improvement

• LLPC compile time optimization
• Update Vulkan header to 1.1.106
• Enable shader cache to disk for Dawn of War3
• Performance tuning for game Thrones of Britannia
• Add option to use GpuHeapGartUswc for the pipeline uploader

v-2019.Q2.2

Driver installation instruction

2019-4-21 update

New feature and improvement

• Performance optimization for Total:WarhammerII, Talos principle and Thrones of Britannia

Issue fix

• Corruption in multiple dxvk games
• CPU mapping problem for memory shared cross device
• Thrones of Britannia tearing regression

v-2019.Q2.1

Driver installation instruction

2019-4-10 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Vulkan headers to 1.1.105
• Allow shared memory to be CPU visible
• Enable priority regardless of whether VK_EXT_memory_priority is enabled or not for all external queues
• Performance optimization for Total:WarhammerII

Issue fix

• Just Cause3 flickering
• Path of Exile incorrect rendering

v-2019.Q1.9

Driver installation instruction

2019-3-26 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable VK_EXT_memory_priority extension
• Enable VK_EXT_memory_budget extension
• Enable skip fast clear eliminate optimization by default
• Reduce unnecessary L2 cache actions on GFX9
• Update pipeline ABI metadata note ID to 32 (from 13) to match HSA code objects
• Improve CPU-bound performance in Mad Max

Issue fix

• Abnormal timestamp on transfer queue
• ShaderDbg bugs
• Minor profiling validation and memory leak fixes
• Dead loop in converting a FP16 denorm back to normalized FP32

v-2019.Q1.8

Driver installation instruction

2019-3-14 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable below extensions:
  • VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model
  • VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable
  • VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve
  • VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8
  • VK_EXT_debug_utils extension
  • VK_EXT_transform_feedback
• Fall back to the internal shader cache for the case of VkPipelineCache miss

Issue fix

• dEQP-VK.spirv_assembly.instruction.graphics.float16.derivative_* and dEQP-VK.spirv_assembly.instruction*.float16.arithmetic_.atan2 test failure
• A bug in LLPC ShaderCache Merge function which causes Dota2 stuttering and performance drop after recent game update
• Dynamic loop unroll crash
• Rise of the Tomb Rider game crash with gcc 7 build
• Witcher3-dxvk hang after loading screen

v-2019.Q1.7

Driver installation instruction

2019-3-1 update

New feature and improvement

• [TransformFeedback] Fix the register setting for RasterizationStreamSelect capablitity
• [VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8] handling of OpVectorInsertDynamic
• Add supports for min and max stencil resolve using compute pipeline

Issue fix

• Memory leak in CmdBufferLogger
• vkmark corruption observed on Fiji + wayland
• Corruption issue caused by DPP operand order in atomic optimizer

v-2019.Q1.6

Driver installation instruction

2019-2-25 update

New feature and improvement

• Add debug support to the CmdBufferLogger layer that allows for "single-stepping" of draws/dispatches

Issue fix

• Vulkan CTS OOM test case crashes and a wide range of many other potential PAL_NEW alloc failure crashes
• Broken path of offchip GS
• Transformfeedback multi-stream CTS failure on gfxip 8 and gfxip 9
• PRT issues with SDMA on gfxip 6-8

v-2019.Q1.5

Driver installation instruction

2019-2-1 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Vulkan Headers to 1.1.97
• Enable the extensions under development (VK_EXT_DEBUG_UTILS, VK_KHR_SHADER_FLOAT16_INT8,VK_ EXT_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK) through the environment variable AMDVLK_ENABLE_DEVELOPING_EXT (refer to the instruction here)
• Add proper handling of allocation failures

Issue fix

• Support for ECC GPR protection on Vega20
• A memory priority issue
• GFX7 indirect dispatch does not work correctly when submitted to a compute queue