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AMD announces new Vulkan ray tracing extension support in latest driver

AMD has announced after a brief spell in their beta driver, support for the following new Vulkan ray tracing extensions are now available in their main Radeon Adrenalin driver 20.11.3 and onwards: VK_KHR_acceleration_structure, VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline, VK_KHR_ray_query, VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations, and VK_KHR_pipeline_library. In addition to the ray tracing extensions, there’s also now support for VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation.