AMD have announced the end of AMDVLK, their official open-source Vulkan driver and will instead now be focusing on the much more popular RADV.
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RADV is the open source community driver everyone uses. AMDVLK was the official AMD open source driver rarely anyone used

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AMDVLK was the official AMD open source driver rarely anyone used

Depends, if you installed both AMDVLK and RADV, AMDVLK would be the default unless you changed your default Vulkan icd loader. Maybe distros where you don’t have to do a lot of DIY and more focused in gaming then RADV was the default. But other distros went with upstream defaults.

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