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		shmerl 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RDNA 4's “Out-of-Order” Memory Accesses Mesa uses NIR as intermediate representation for its drivers. Is that comparable?

winocm 6 months ago | [–]

Kind of. NIR is more oriented towards lowering and optimizing code for driver backends, as far as I know. SPIR-V is targeted towards the other end of the spectrum.

GZGavinZhao 6 months ago | [–]

From my limited understanding of SPIR-V (since AMDGCNSPIRV is in essence SPIR-V), I would say yes.

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