---
title: 'AMD announces new Vulkan ray tracing extension support in latest driver'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-19282-812d566532985ceed6b6e5aec7aee1b0'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-19282-812d566532985ceed6b6e5aec7aee1b0.md'
date: '2020-12-02'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - 'Ray Tracing'
---

#  AMD announces new Vulkan ray tracing extension support in latest driver 

  December 2nd at 1:45pm

 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. 

 [ Read More  ](https://gpuopen.com/vulkan-ray-tracing-extensions/)

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