Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support

If only Cycles would ever work on AMD Polaris…

Though honestly, I’ll probably get around to a GPU upgrade eventually. Rocm packaging looks to be pretty much done on Debian, although they still seem to need time on the problem of keeping it reasonably up to date in Testing and Sid - momentum will probably pick up after Trixie leaves hard freeze and goes stable.

Honestly, it’d be kind of nice to have a project with a repo that does nothing most of the time except during the Testing freeze, in which it would deliver package updates and keep Testing as a rolling release during that time.

I get why Debian doesn’t do this themselves - they tried and found it hell to both prepare a stable release and package new versions.

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Blender's Vulkan back-end is now considered to be on-par with OpenGL.
Awesome!
If only Cycles would ever work on AMD Polaris…
Though honestly, I’ll probably get around to a GPU upgrade eventually. Rocm packaging looks to be pretty much done on Debian, although they still seem to need time on the problem of keeping it reasonably up to date in Testing and Sid - momentum will probably pick up after Trixie leaves hard freeze and goes stable.
Honestly, it’d be kind of nice to have a project with a repo that does nothing most of the time except during the Testing freeze, in which it would deliver package updates and keep Testing as a rolling release during that time.
I get why Debian doesn’t do this themselves - they tried and found it hell to both prepare a stable release and package new versions.
Yay, when VSE rework 🥺