Blender Developers get faster AMD Linux: 251 To 9 Seconds Speed-Up

Two weeks ago a bug report was opened for Mesa that when using Radeon RX 7900 XT or Radeon Pro WX 9100 graphics, Blender’s Eevee shader node trees are unusably slow. A fix has now been merged in reducing that shader compilation time from around 251 seconds to now getting done in just about 9 seconds.

Sebastian Parborg of the Blender Studio crew found that “shader compilation takes way too long on our AMD GPUs” when using their AMD graphics hardware on Linux with Blender.

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