---
title: 'AMD Open-Source Vulkan Driver for Linux Gets Updated with Mesh Shading & Steam Play Support'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21710-66b8ea6750e1fba69193b69040b14494'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21710-66b8ea6750e1fba69193b69040b14494.md'
date: '2023-04-24'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - linux
---

#  AMD Open-Source Vulkan Driver for Linux Gets Updated with Mesh Shading & Steam Play Support 

  April 24th at 3:32pm

 New features and improvements include: Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.3.246 Support Navi3x floating point instructions Support extensions VK_KHR_map_memory2, VK_EXT_image_sliced_view_of_3d, VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state, VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3, VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier, VK_EXT_mesh_shader, VK_EXT_pipeline_library_group_handles, VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer 

 [ Read More  ](https://wccftech.com/amd-open-source-vulkan-amdvlk-driver-for-linux-gets-updated-with-mesh-shading-steam-play-support/)

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