As a quick refresher, hardware acceleration for GPU scheduling was included to the Windows display chauffeur stack with WDDM 2.7 (shipping in Win10 2004). And, as mentioned by the name, it enables GPUs to more straight manage their VRAM. Generally Windows itself has done a lot of the VRAM management for GPUs, so this is a distinct change in matters.
On a tangential note, Im intending to sit down with The Powers That Be over the next week or so in order to much better dig into hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. Be sure to check back in next week for that.
In the meantime, AMD appears to be taking a careful method here. The beta motorist has been released outside their typical release channels and just supports products utilizing AMDs Navi 10 GPUs– so the Radeon 5700 series, 5600 series, and their mobile variants. Support for the Navi 14-based 5500 series is notably missing, as is Vega assistance for both integrated and discrete GPUs.
As a quick refresher, hardware acceleration for GPU scheduling was added to the Windows display chauffeur stack with WDDM 2.7 (shipping in Win10 2004). Microsoft has actually been treating the function as a fairly low-key development– relative to DirectX 12 Ultimate, they have not stated a whole lot about it– meanwhile AMDs release notes make vague efficiency enhancement claims, mentioning “By moving scheduling obligations from software into hardware, this function has the possible to improve GPU responsiveness and to permit additional development in GPU workload management in the future”. The beta motorist has been published outside their typical release channels and just supports items utilizing AMDs Navi 10 GPUs– so the Radeon 5700 series, 5600 series, and their mobile variants.
Following recentlys release of NVIDIAs first Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling-enabled video card chauffeur, AMD today has actually stepped up to the plate to do the same. The Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.5.1 Beta with Graphics Hardware Scheduling driver (variation 20.10.17.04) has actually been posted to AMDs site, and as the name says on the tin, the chauffeur uses assistance for Windows 10s new hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling innovation.
Microsoft has been treating the feature as a reasonably low-key development– relative to DirectX 12 Ultimate, they have not said a whole lot about it– on the other hand AMDs release notes make vague performance enhancement claims, mentioning “By moving scheduling obligations from software application into hardware, this function has the prospective to enhance GPU responsiveness and to allow additional development in GPU workload management in the future”. As was the case with NVIDIAs release recently, do not expect anything too significant here, otherwise AMD would be more heavily promoting the efficiency gains. Its something to keep an eye on over the long term.
Additional details about the chauffeur release, in addition to download directions, can be discovered on AMDs site in the driver release notes.
