Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne July 28, 2026 RADV is the open source Mesa Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs. Over the years, it has become a cornerstone of the Linux graphics stack. It has now effectively become the de facto Vulkan driver for AMD hardware on Linux. AMD even discontinued their PAL-based (Platform Abstraction Library) alternative in its favor, consolidating their open-source efforts around Mesa. On Windows however, AMD users are still served only by the proprietary driver. But don't panic...