AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support
AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features.
First up, AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings support for Hawk Point 1 and Hawk Point 2 hardware. Hawk Point 1 is for the Ryzen 8000H / 8000HS series hardware finally seeing official AMDVLK driver support. Hawk Point 2 "Hawk Point Refresh" is for the Ryzen 200 series APUs. It was rather late of AMD with their Hawk Point Ryzen 8000H/HS support only coming now to this open-source Vulkan driver but in any case it's here now at least.
New Vulkan API extensions supported by AMDVLK include VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d, VK_EXT_shader_replicated_composites, and VK_KHR_maintenance8. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 is built against the Vulkan API 1.4.313 headers and conformance test suite coverage with Vulkan CTS 1.4.1.3.
Other AMDVLK changes in this release include exposing more queues by default and more performance tuning around the Radeon RX 9070 / RDNA4 "Navi 48" GPUs. There is also bug fixes helping titles like Surge 2, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Far Cry, Kingdom Come, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and more.
Downloads and more details on the AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 driver release for Linux systems via GitHub.
First up, AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings support for Hawk Point 1 and Hawk Point 2 hardware. Hawk Point 1 is for the Ryzen 8000H / 8000HS series hardware finally seeing official AMDVLK driver support. Hawk Point 2 "Hawk Point Refresh" is for the Ryzen 200 series APUs. It was rather late of AMD with their Hawk Point Ryzen 8000H/HS support only coming now to this open-source Vulkan driver but in any case it's here now at least.
New Vulkan API extensions supported by AMDVLK include VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d, VK_EXT_shader_replicated_composites, and VK_KHR_maintenance8. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 is built against the Vulkan API 1.4.313 headers and conformance test suite coverage with Vulkan CTS 1.4.1.3.
👁 AMDVLK usage with Steam on Linux
Other AMDVLK changes in this release include exposing more queues by default and more performance tuning around the Radeon RX 9070 / RDNA4 "Navi 48" GPUs. There is also bug fixes helping titles like Surge 2, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Far Cry, Kingdom Come, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and more.
Downloads and more details on the AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 driver release for Linux systems via GitHub.