--- title: DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux... description: DRM format modifier support is coming to older AMD Radeon GPUs (GFX6 through GFX8/GFX9, covering GCN 1.0 through Polaris/Fiji) in Linux 7.3, contributed by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/drm-format-modifiers-for-old-amd-gpus-coming-with-linux-7-3-thanks-valve-opy7i19sc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve | daily.dev og:description: DRM format modifier support is coming to older AMD Radeon GPUs (GFX6 through GFX8/GFX9, covering GCN 1.0 through Polaris/Fiji) in Linux 7.3, contributed by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/drm-format-modifiers-for-old-amd-gpus-coming-with-linux-7-3-thanks-valve-opy7i19sc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/opy7I19Sc.png og:image:alt: DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DRM format modifier support is coming to older AMD Radeon GPUs (GFX6 through GFX8/GFX9, covering GCN 1.0 through Polaris/Fiji) in Linux 7.3, contributed by Timur Kristóf from Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. DRM format modifiers describe tiling, compression, and image buffer attributes, enabling better performance and interoperability with Vulkan-powered Wayland compositors, the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan layer, and cross-API use cases. The weekly AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull also includes Apple Studio Display fixes, a GEM close optimization, DCN 4.2 display core IP updates, removal of old BUG() calls, and numerous bug fixes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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