Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 36 minutes ago
RADV ray tracing lets you emulate ray tracing in software in order to let you play games that require hardware accelerated ray tracing like Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Even GPUs that don't support ray tracing like the RX Vega 64 get excellent performance and that isn't even an RDNA GPU, it's Vega! Really amazing work done by the developer(s) who implemented this into RADV/Mesa for the AMDGPU driver on Linux. You guys (which includes gals) are doing the peoples work and doing your part to reduce e-waste!
And thank you to the people who uploaded videos to YouTube testing it, I wouldn't have been able to make this video without them, so go like their videos!
I made this video because @fpgamemearray commented on one of my videos enlightening me to the fact that this was possible. Thank you for sending me the links to this and making this video possible!
Excellent videos posted by other youtubers whose videos showed me this was possible and that I used for this video:
youtu.be/44XaGU01J84?si=THGLBjw9CxHd1Gu1 - RX 5700XT Indiana Jones
youtu.be/cT6qbcKT7YY?si=JBY22rksKt8OwVXG - Vega 64 Indiana Jones
youtu.be/JZuNwnRZ95o?si=qBMlrkjlTzhs8OLn - RX 5700XT Indiana Jones 2nd example
youtu.be/PEvCIAtrSMA?si=-rlocI8-aKSp-pUO - RX 580 Quake 2 RTX
youtu.be/g2qvN17m9KA?si=IRAJD-bYcuNaZiIx - RX 5700 XT Portal RTX
youtu.be/dbBnUnCjIZo?si=5dLXF8SFeOURvh6a - RX 580 Quake 2 RTX
youtu.be/QtPw9RN8Zos?si=jJe0RdKOo2FjLmUL - RX 5700XT GTA V Enhanced Edition Ray Tracing
Tom's Hardware article featuring this video!
tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-rx-vega-64-runs-indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-at-well-over-30fps-in-linux-with-radv-driver
RADV ray tracing on hardware RT GPUs:
youtu.be/DSvUgWbMrAs?si=b9o3CPhT8Jo6vs7m - RX 6800 Portal RTX
youtu.be/NgEL4w4iwho?si=1Jz-wkmTyBALaqYW - RX 6900XT Doom Eternal
youtu.be/zow14h_bIMI?si=t1MGNE7lA1SLtcpF - RX 6800 Control
youtu.be/f3hG7XoqiHQ?si=OBh_-fIuPbej_49b - RX 6800 Metro - Windows vs Linux
I did not run these games myself and it's thanks to these videos that I was able to analyze how it runs and provide commentary on the news articles by Phoronix linked below.
Articles covering RADV ray tracing emulation:
phoronix.com/news/RADV-Emulated-RT-100p
phoronix.com/news/RADV-LBVH-GFX6-And-Newer
phoronix.com/news/RADV-LBVH-Lands
gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/16203
pixelcluster.github.io/RADV-Raytracing-ON/#fnref:3
phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-Default-Mesa-23.2
reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/xibc2p/amd_vulkan_graphics_driver_adds_ray_tracing
What is RADV?
docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/radv.html
0:00 - 4:44 Ray Tracing on RDNA 1 and Vega!
4:44 - 6:01 What is RADV?
6:01 - 8:24 Future Video on AMD Compute Units
#amd #radeon #rx5700xt #vega64 #linuxgaming #raytracing
RADV ray tracing lets you emulate ray tracing in software in order to let you play games that require hardware accelerated ray tracing like Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Even GPUs that don't support ray tracing like the RX Vega 64 get excellent performance and that isn't even an RDNA GPU, it's Vega! Really amazing work done by the developer(s) who implemented this into RADV/Mesa for the AMDGPU driver on Linux. You guys (which includes gals) are doing the peoples work and doing your part to reduce e-waste!
And thank you to the people who uploaded videos to YouTube testing it, I wouldn't have been able to make this video without them, so go like their videos!
I made this video because @fpgamemearray commented on one of my videos enlightening me to the fact that this was possible. Thank you for sending me the links to this and making this video possible!
Excellent videos posted by other youtubers whose videos showed me this was possible and that I used for this video:
youtu.be/44XaGU01J84?si=THGLBjw9CxHd1Gu1 - RX 5700XT Indiana Jones
youtu.be/cT6qbcKT7YY?si=JBY22rksKt8OwVXG - Vega 64 Indiana Jones
youtu.be/JZuNwnRZ95o?si=qBMlrkjlTzhs8OLn - RX 5700XT Indiana Jones 2nd example
youtu.be/PEvCIAtrSMA?si=-rlocI8-aKSp-pUO - RX 580 Quake 2 RTX
youtu.be/g2qvN17m9KA?si=IRAJD-bYcuNaZiIx - RX 5700 XT Portal RTX
youtu.be/dbBnUnCjIZo?si=5dLXF8SFeOURvh6a - RX 580 Quake 2 RTX
youtu.be/QtPw9RN8Zos?si=jJe0RdKOo2FjLmUL - RX 5700XT GTA V Enhanced Edition Ray Tracing
Tom's Hardware article featuring this video!
tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-rx-vega-64-runs-indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-at-well-over-30fps-in-linux-with-radv-driver
RADV ray tracing on hardware RT GPUs:
youtu.be/DSvUgWbMrAs?si=b9o3CPhT8Jo6vs7m - RX 6800 Portal RTX
youtu.be/NgEL4w4iwho?si=1Jz-wkmTyBALaqYW - RX 6900XT Doom Eternal
youtu.be/zow14h_bIMI?si=t1MGNE7lA1SLtcpF - RX 6800 Control
youtu.be/f3hG7XoqiHQ?si=OBh_-fIuPbej_49b - RX 6800 Metro - Windows vs Linux
I did not run these games myself and it's thanks to these videos that I was able to analyze how it runs and provide commentary on the news articles by Phoronix linked below.
Articles covering RADV ray tracing emulation:
phoronix.com/news/RADV-Emulated-RT-100p
phoronix.com/news/RADV-LBVH-GFX6-And-Newer
phoronix.com/news/RADV-LBVH-Lands
gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/16203
pixelcluster.github.io/RADV-Raytracing-ON/#fnref:3
phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-Default-Mesa-23.2
reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/xibc2p/amd_vulkan_graphics_driver_adds_ray_tracing
What is RADV?
docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/radv.html
0:00 - 4:44 Ray Tracing on RDNA 1 and Vega!
4:44 - 6:01 What is RADV?
6:01 - 8:24 Future Video on AMD Compute Units
#amd #radeon #rx5700xt #vega64 #linuxgaming #raytracing
