Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows

StefanM · Apr 20, 2024

The past year there's been an independent open-source driver developer working on "Terakan" as a Vulkan driver for old Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs. These pre-GCN GPUs never received any official Vulkan driver support from AMD but thanks to open-source and a strong desire to pull off such a feat, Vitaliy Kuzmin "Triang3l" has been pursuing this challenge and has been pulling off some basic results. The work so far has been predominantly been carried out with the open-source Linux graphics stack while this weekend the Terakan driver was demonstrated under Microsoft Windows.

Source: Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows

Source code:
Grab the latest commit from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/Triang3l

Build parameter for Meson

Code:

meson ... -Dvulkan-drivers=amd_terascale

I could build the driver, but when trying on my old AMD potato VulkanCapsViewer errored out because Windows 7 is missing something

System Name	Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-45-R715)
Processor	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
Motherboard	AMD Promontory / Bixby FCH
Cooling	Acer Nitro Sense
Memory	32 GB
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon Graphics (Cezanne) / NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop GPU
Storage	WDC PC SN530 SDBPNPZ
Display(s)	BOE CQ NE156QHM-NY3
Software	Windows 11 beta channel

Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows

StefanM