On September 16, 2025, AMD issued a statement on GitHub, announcing the immediate cessation of maintenance for its open - source AMDVLK Vulkan driver. Going forward, the Mesa RADV driver will take full charge of providing Vulkan support on the Linux platform.

AMD explained that this decision is made with the intention of streamlining its Linux Vulkan approach. By doing so, it can cut down on redundant work and reallocate all its human resources and code - related contributions to the RADV project. The company aims to work hand - in - hand with the community to develop a single, high - performance open - source solution that undergoes continuous improvement.

RADV was originally launched by Red Hat. Over time, it has attracted participation from industry giants like Valve, Google, and Collabora. This driver offers full support for Vulkan 1.3, along with features such as hardware ray tracing, mesh shading, and variable refresh rates. In real - world gaming scenarios, RADV outperforms AMDVLK in terms of frame rates and latency.

AMD's engineers will directly engage in RADV development. They will transfer all proprietary optimizations, as well as the tools for Day - one support of new graphics cards and performance tuning that were previously used for AMDVLK, to the RADV repository.

For end - users, simply installing the mesa - radv package will be enough to receive continuous updates. This eliminates the compatibility problems that used to arise from having two drivers co - exist. For developers, having a single codebase also helps in reducing the costs associated with adaptation.