## RADV Vulkan boosts ray tracing on Linux The open-source RADV Vulkan driver for AMD Radeon graphics cards continues to receive ray tracing optimizations on Linux. The latest addition is the implementation of HPLOC, a technique that promises to further improve performance in games that use this technology. ## A Valve contribution As often happens, this improvement is the result of the work of Valve's engineers, who actively contribute to the development of the RADV driver. The update will be included in Mesa 26.0, the next version of the open-source graphics library. Ray tracing is a rendering technique that simulates the physical behavior of light to create more realistic images. It requires significant computing power, but recent optimizations in drivers like RADV are making this technology increasingly accessible even on less recent hardware.