Intel Begins Their Open-Source Driver Support For Vulkan Ray-Tracing With Xe HPG

In preparation for next year’s Xe HPG graphics cards, Intel’s open-source developers have begun publishing their patches enabling their “ANC” Vulkan Linux driver to support Vulkan ray-tracing. Phoronix reports: Jason Ekstrand as the lead developer originally on the Intel ANV driver has posted today the initial ray-tracing code for ANV in order to support VK_KHR_ray_tracing for their forthcoming hardware. Today is…