Mesa is an open-source OpenGL implementation and consists of both hardware drivers (e.g. Intel, Radeon, Nouveau, et al) along with software drivers (Softpipe, LLVMpipe). The Gallium3D component of Mesa provides not only OpenGL support but also video acceleration (VDPAU), compute support (OpenCL), and other capabilities for modern GPUs.

Mesa Articles & Reviews

Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10   Display Drivers   2023-10-13
Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2023-08-11
AMD Radeon PRO W7500/W7600 Deliver Great Open-Source Linux Performance At Launch   Graphics Cards   2023-08-03
Intel Scores Another Nice Arc Graphics Boost On Linux For Summer 2023   Display Drivers   2023-07-25
Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Nice ~10% Speedup With Recent Open-Source Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2023-07-17
RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel   Display Drivers   2023-06-06
AMDVLK vs. Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance On Linux   Display Drivers   2023-06-02
NVIDIA R530 vs. AMD Linux 6.3 + Mesa 23.2-dev Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2023-05-19
The Current Intel Arc Graphics Linux Gaming Performance On Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.1-dev   Linux Gaming   2023-03-20
AMD Radeon vs. Intel Arc Graphics With Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0   Display Drivers   2023-01-12
Radeon Gaming/Graphics Performance: Windows 11 vs. Linux GPU Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2022-12-29
AMD Radeon With Linux 6.1 + Mesa 23.0-dev vs. NVIDIA R525 Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2022-12-02
Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Performance Ahead Of Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0   Display Drivers   2022-11-30
Intel Arc Graphics A380: Compelling For Open-Source Enthusiasts & Developers At ~$139   Graphics Cards   2022-08-29
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Benchmarks Are Very Competitive To Radeon OpenGL Driver   Display Drivers   2022-08-22
Mesa 22.2 Gaming Performance With Radeon RX 6700/6800 XT Graphics Cards On Linux   Display Drivers   2022-08-12
Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Continues Outperforming AMDVLK For RDNA2 Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2022-06-28
Upgrading Ubuntu 22.04's Kernel & Mesa For Better AMD RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2022-06-01
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Looking Quite Good & Shining With Mesa 22.1   Display Drivers   2022-05-06
Mesa 22.1-rc1 AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   2022-04-22
Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Graphics In Great Shape For Workstations, Handily Beating Proprietary Driver   Display Drivers   2022-03-07
AMD Radeon Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Performance: 2020 vs. 2021   Display Drivers   2022-01-07
Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Holds A Narrowing Lead Over AMDVLK With Ubuntu 21.10 On Wayland   Display Drivers   2021-12-30
Linux 5.16 Has A Nice Performance Gift For AMD Ryzen Laptops With Radeon Graphics   Display Drivers   2021-12-24
Zink Is Ending 2021 In Fantastic Shape For OpenGL Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-11-30
Linux & Mesa Driver Comparison For Intel Core i5 12600K / UHD Graphics 770   Display Drivers   2021-11-18
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX / ASUS ROG Strix G15 Is A Nicer Experience On Ubuntu 21.10   Operating Systems   2021-10-07
Radeon Software 21.30 PRO vs. Mesa 21.3-devel + Linux 5.15 Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2021-10-06
Zink Mesa 21.3-dev Benchmarks - Increasingly Capable Of Running OpenGL Games Atop Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-08-23
Radeon RX 6600/6700/6800 XT: RADV vs. PRO Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-08-11
Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Performance For July 2021   Display Drivers   2021-07-23
Linux Gaming Performance With Radeon Vulkan NGG Culling   Display Drivers   2021-07-16
Another Test Drive With Crocus Gallium3D On Old Intel Hardware   Display Drivers   2021-06-24
Running The New Intel OpenGL "Crocus" Gallium3D Driver On Sandy Bridge   Display Drivers   2021-06-21
Mesa's New "Crocus" OpenGL Driver Is Performing Well For Old Intel Hardware   Display Drivers   2021-06-15
Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2021-04-12
RADV+ACO Look To Your Help For Improving The Vulkan Driver & Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2021-02-09
Mesa 21.0 Has Many New Features Especially For Radeon Open-Source Graphics   Display Drivers   2021-02-04
Radeon RX 6800 Series Linux Performance Nearly Three Months After Launch   Graphics Cards   2021-02-02
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance As Of January 2021   Display Drivers   2021-01-22
Mesa 21.0-devel RADV vs. AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-01-13
Mesa 20.3 + Linux 5.9 Is In Great Shape Against AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2020-09-14
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Linux 5.9 + Mesa 20.3-devel Radeon Graphics Performance   Linux Gaming   2020-08-25
Radeon RADV+ACO Vulkan Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 20.2   Display Drivers   2020-07-13
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance On Mesa 20.1 Looking Good With RADV+ACO   Display Drivers   2020-05-04
Radeon Software 20.10 vs. Upstream Linux AMD Radeon OpenGL / Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2020-04-24
Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2020-03-16
Basemark GPU 1.2 Brings Linux Support - Wins For NVIDIA, Woes For Mesa   Display Drivers   2020-03-09
20-Way GPU Gaming Comparison With March 2020 Linux Drivers   Linux Gaming   2020-03-04
The Current RADV+ACO Mesa Driver Performance For February 2020   Display Drivers   2020-02-24
Mesa 20.0 Is Imminent With New Intel OpenGL Default, Intel + RADV Vulkan 1.2, OpenGL 4.6 For RadeonSI   Display Drivers   2020-02-19
Valve's ACO Helps Put New Life Into Radeon GCN 1.0 GPUs With ~9% Better Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2020-01-30
Mesa 20.0's RADV + ACO Vulkan Driver Now Consistently Beating AMD's AMDVLK Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2019-12-19
Mesa 19.3 Is Introducing A Lot Of Open-Source OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Improvements   Display Drivers   2019-12-10
RadeonSI NIR Benchmarks Show Great Progress With Mesa 20.0   Display Drivers   2019-12-06
RADV's ACO Back-End Is Helping Radeon Navi Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2019-11-22
Zink Benchmarks - Mesa OpenGL Running Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2019-11-17
Ubuntu 19.10 Radeon Linux Gaming Performance Plus Linux 5.4 / Mesa 19.3 Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2019-10-29
Radeon RADV "ACO" Performance On Mesa 19.3 Looking Good   Display Drivers   2019-10-05
Intel's Gallium3D Driver Is Running Much Faster Than Their Current OpenGL Linux Driver With Mesa 19.3   Display Drivers   2019-09-15
Intel's New OpenGL Driver Is Looking Really Great With The Upcoming Mesa 19.2   Display Drivers   2019-08-21
Another Look At The Maturing AMD Radeon RX 5700 Series Linux Performance   Display Drivers   2019-08-05
Radeon RX 5700 / RX 5700 XT Linux Gaming Performance With AMDGPU 5.3 + Mesa 19.2-devel   Graphics Cards   2019-07-29
Benchmarking Valve's RADV+ACO Yields Fastest Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2019-07-08
Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Performance With Polaris/Vega/Vega20 vs. NVIDIA On Ubuntu 19.04   Display Drivers   2019-06-26
The Latest Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Radeon Performance Against NVIDIA With Mid-Range GPUs   Display Drivers   2019-06-21
AMDVLK Still Has Some Performance Advantages Over Mesa's Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver, But It's A Good Fight   Display Drivers   2019-05-30
Mesa 19.1's New Features From The Intel Gallium3D Driver To New Drivers & Vulkan Optimizations   Software   2019-05-28
Intel's Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Seeing Minor Performance Gains With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-26
The RadeonSI/RADV Performance With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-25
The New Intel Gallium3D OpenGL Driver Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-09
LG's 4K FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync Display For Just $219 USD   Computers   2019-05-01
The Current Intel "Iris" Gallium3D OpenGL Performance Against i965 Mesa, Windows 10 OpenGL   Display Drivers   2019-04-15
AMDVLK vs. RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance For Linux Gaming On Ubuntu 19.04   Display Drivers   2019-04-11
AMDGPU vs. Radeon Kernel Driver Performance On Linux 5.0 For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Computers   2019-03-07
Intel Iris Pro 6200 Graphics - i965 vs. Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Performance   Display Drivers   2019-03-05
Early Intel i965 vs. Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Benchmarks On UHD Graphics 620 With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-02-21
Running The RadeonSI NIR Back-End With Mesa 19.1 Git   Display Drivers   2019-02-10
The Performance Benefits To Running AMD's Radeon VII With Linux 5.0 + Mesa 19.0   Display Drivers   2019-02-07
NVIDIA vs. Radeon Linux 5.0 + Mesa 19.0 Drivers - 14-Way Gaming GPU Comparison   Linux Gaming   2019-01-29
Mesa 18.2 vs. 18.3 vs. 19.0 January Benchmarks For RadeonSI/RADV   Display Drivers   2019-01-21
Mesa 19.0 RADV vs. AMDVLK 2019.Q1.2 vs. Radeon Software 18.50 Linux Vulkan Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-01-17
The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-20
Radeon Software 18.50 vs. Linux 4.20 + Mesa 19 Benchmarks On The AMD RX 590   Display Drivers   2018-12-18
1080p Linux Gaming Performance - NVIDIA 415.22 vs. Mesa 19.0-devel RADV/RadeonSI   Linux Gaming   2018-12-16
An Initial Look At The Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-12-11
The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux Driver Performance At The End Of 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-10
Radeon Vulkan Driver Benchmarks: AMDVLK 2018.4.2 vs. AMDGPU-PRO 18.40 vs. Mesa 18.2/19.0   Display Drivers   2018-11-25
The Polaris/Vega Performance At The End Of Mesa 18.3 Feature Development   Linux Gaming   2018-11-09
Radeon Software 18.40 vs. Mesa vs. AMDVLK Benchmarks With Radeon RX Vega   Display Drivers   2018-10-26
Ubuntu 18.10 Is A Nice Upgrade For Radeon Gamers, Especially For Steam VR   Operating Systems   2018-10-18
RADV vs. AMDVLK vs. Radeon Software Vulkan Driver Performance - October 2018 Linux Gaming   Display Drivers   2018-10-04
The Linux 4.19 AMDGPU + Mesa 18.3 Performance From The Radeon HD 7950 To RX Vega 64   Display Drivers   2018-09-09
The Tighter NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Battle With 396.54 + Mesa 18.3-dev Drivers   Display Drivers   2018-08-28
AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Pro/Open vs. Upstream Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Radeon Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-08-23
Linux 4.18 AMDGPU Tests: Vega Taking A Hit   Display Drivers   2018-07-10
Mesa 18.0/18.1/18.2 RadeonSI + RADV Benchmark Comparison With Radeon RX 580 / R9 Fury / RX Vega 64   Display Drivers   2018-07-03
Radeon Software 18.20 vs. Mesa 18.2 RadeonSI/RADV Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-06-26
A Look At The RadeonSI/RADV Performance From Mesa 17.2 To Mesa 18.2   Display Drivers   2018-06-05
A Look At The Intel UHD Graphics Performance On Clear Linux With Linux 4.16 + Mesa 18.2   Operating Systems   2018-06-03
Clear Linux Now Offers Radeon Mesa Graphics Support, Yields Speed Advantage In Some Tests   Operating Systems   2018-06-02
Raven Ridge With The Ryzen 5 2400G On Mesa 18.2 + Linux 4.17 Is Finally Stable   Linux Gaming   2018-05-19
RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-05-08
Radeon Software 18.10 vs. Mesa 18.2 RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-05-03
Rise of the Tomb Raider Linux Performance On AMD Radeon GPUs   Linux Gaming   2018-04-19
RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Drivers Continue Stiff Performance Battle   Display Drivers   2018-04-18
Radeon GPUs Are Increasingly Competing With NVIDIA GPUs On Latest RadeonSI/RADV Drivers   Linux Gaming   2018-03-19
Intel Coffee Lake OpenGL Performance On Windows 10 vs. Linux   Operating Systems   2018-02-21
RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Is Still A Better Bet Than AMDVLK In February 2018   Display Drivers   2018-02-12
Mesa 12.0 To Mesa 18.0 Benchmarks Show The OpenGL/Vulkan Radeon Evolution   Display Drivers   2018-02-05
Intel OpenGL/Vulkan Performance Edging Slightly Higher With Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-31
RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks On Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-30
Mesa 18.0 Features Include Many OpenGL/Vulkan Improvements, Intel Shader Cache & Extras   Display Drivers   2018-01-28
Intel OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance With Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-21
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At The Start Of 2018   Display Drivers   2018-01-10
RADV Vulkan Gaming Getting Closer To RadeonSI OpenGL Performance   Linux Gaming   2017-12-31
RADV Vulkan Driver Ends The Year On A High Note With A Performance Boost   Display Drivers   2017-12-29
A Closer Look At The AMDVLK vs. RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-27
R600g/RadeonSI Gallium3D Performance At The End Of 2017   Display Drivers   2017-12-26
AMDVLK vs. RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO 17.50 Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-24
AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM Driver Performance On Linux 4.15   Display Drivers   2017-12-21
NVIDIA 387.34 vs. Linux 4.15 + Mesa 17.4-dev Radeon OpenGL/Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-09
Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.15 + Mesa 17.4-dev Radeon Gaming Performance   Operating Systems   2017-11-29
Intel's Mesa GLSL Shader Cache Is Speeding Up Game Load Times   Linux Gaming   2017-11-16
Ubuntu 17.10 Radeon Performance: Stock vs. X-Swat Updates vs. Oibaf PPA vs. Pkppa vs. Padoka PPA   Operating Systems   2017-11-14
Mesa 17.3 Features - Vulkan Updates, Better Performance   Display Drivers   2017-11-06
Nouveau Linux 4.14 + Mesa 17.4-dev vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   2017-11-05
18-Way Radeon GPU Benchmarks On Ubuntu 17.10 With Linux 4.14 + Mesa 17.4-dev   Graphics Cards   2017-11-01
AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM With Linux 4.14 On GCN 1.0/SI GPUs   Display Drivers   2017-10-29
RadeonSI/RADV Mesa 17.3 + AMDGPU DC vs. NVIDIA 387.12 Linux Gaming Performance   Graphics Cards   2017-10-25
Mesa 17.3 With RADV Vulkan Running Great With Polaris, Starts To Outperform AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2017-10-24
Radeon RX Vega 64: AMDGPU-PRO vs. DRM-Next + Mesa 17.3-dev   Display Drivers   2017-10-23
Intel Graphics Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-20
Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. Ubuntu 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-18
Radeon RX Vega Performance With Mesa 17.3-dev + LLVM 6 + drm-next-4.15-dc   Display Drivers   2017-09-29
RADV Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance With Linux 4.13 + Mesa 17.3-dev   Display Drivers   2017-09-22
Radeon RX Vega OpenGL Linux Performance For September 2017   Linux Gaming   2017-09-15
LLVMpipe vs. OpenSWR Software Rendering On A 40 Core / 80 Thread Tyan Server   Display Drivers   2017-08-27
Radeon RX Vega On Linux: High-Performance GPUs & Open-Source No Longer An Oxymoron   Graphics Cards   2017-08-14
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Radeon Gaming Performance With Linux 4.13 + Mesa 17.2   Operating Systems   2017-08-02
Ahead Of Radeon RX Vega, AMDGPU+RadeonSI Is Offering The Most Competitive Performance Yet Against NVIDIA On Linux   Display Drivers   2017-07-31
OpenGL 4.6 Released With Vulkan/SPIR-V Ingestion, Parallel Shader Compiles & Finally AF   Software   2017-07-31
The New Features Of Mesa 17.2   Display Drivers   2017-07-31
AMDGPU-PRO 17.30 vs. Linux 4.13 + Mesa Git RadeonSI Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2017-07-30
Days Away From Branching, How Mesa 17.2 RadeonSI Performance Compares To Mesa 17.1   Display Drivers   2017-07-17
Mesa GL Thread Testing With Pentium + Core i7 & RX 580 + R9 Fury   Display Drivers   2017-07-12
Windows 10 Radeon Software vs. Ubuntu 17.04 + Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev   Linux Gaming   2017-07-07
P-State/CPUFreq Governor Tests With Linux 4.12 For OpenGL/Vulkan Games   Linux Gaming   2017-06-26
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10-429170 vs. Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev: Open-Source Continues Strong   Display Drivers   2017-06-19
Radeon's Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Has Nearly Caught Up With Windows' Driver   Display Drivers   2017-06-07

Mesa Linux & Open-Source News

New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time   Mesa   2024-04-26
Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute   Intel   2024-04-26
NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver   NVIDIA   2024-04-25
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2   Intel   2024-04-25
Etnaviv NPU Optimizations Make It Into Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-04-25
Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2024-04-24
RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1   Radeon   2024-04-24
Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability   Radeon   2024-04-24
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade   Fedora   2024-04-23
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance   Nouveau   2024-04-23
AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users   Radeon   2024-04-21
Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows   Radeon   2024-04-20
Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing   Intel   2024-04-19
Intel Preps Adaptive Sync SDP, Lunar Lake Display & More DG2 PCI IDs In Linux 6.10   Intel   2024-04-18
Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11   Mesa   2024-04-16
Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton   Intel   2024-04-16
Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO   Mesa   2024-04-13
X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs   X.Org   2024-04-11
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing   Ubuntu   2024-04-11
Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode   Radeon   2024-04-11
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support   KDE   2024-04-10
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines   Mesa   2024-04-10
Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1   Nouveau   2024-04-09
Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland   X.Org   2024-04-09
RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-04-08
Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default   Raspberry Pi   2024-04-08
KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync   KDE   2024-04-06
Mesa Adds PCI IDs For Intel Arc Graphics A580E & A750E   Intel   2024-04-05
RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs   Mesa   2024-04-03
AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires   Radeon   2024-04-02
Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync   Mesa   2024-04-02
Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks   Operating Systems   2024-04-01
Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-04-01
Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter   Intel   2024-03-31
AMD XDNA Linux Driver For Ryzen AI, Zen 5 Compiler Support & Other AMD Q1 Highlights   AMD   2024-03-31
Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics   Mesa   2024-03-30
Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance As Proprietary Driver   Hardware   2024-03-28
SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0   Linux Gaming   2024-03-26
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 Released With Fixes   Radeon   2024-03-26
Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs   Arm   2024-03-26
Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support   Radeon   2024-03-25
DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround   Intel   2024-03-23
NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver   Mesa   2024-03-22
Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering   Mesa   2024-03-21
The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers   Mesa   2024-03-19
RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1   Radeon   2024-03-16
An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU   Hardware   2024-03-16
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex   Valve   2024-03-15
Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G   Intel   2024-03-14
Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes   Mesa   2024-03-14
Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default   Intel   2024-03-13
Blumenkrantz Picks His Next Battle: Mesa's DRI Interfaces   Mesa   2024-03-13
Linux 6.9 Graphics Drivers Prepare For RDNA3 Refresh & RDNA4, More Intel Xe Driver Work   Linux Kernel   2024-03-13
Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust   Linux Kernel   2024-03-10
Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-03-10
NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver   Nouveau   2024-03-09
AMD Squeezes In Additional GPU Enablement Code For Linux 6.9   Radeon   2024-03-08
Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding   Mesa   2024-03-07
Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing   Mesa   2024-03-07
Etnaviv Preps For Vivante PCI Device Support, Changes For Mesa's Teflon NPU Handling   Hardware   2024-03-07
RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG   Radeon   2024-03-06
FEX 2403 Fixes Steam Support, Introduces More CPU Optimizations   Linux Gaming   2024-03-05
Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant   Radeon   2024-03-04
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Descriptor Buffer Support To Reduce Linux Gaming CPU Overhead   Intel   2024-03-04
Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues   Radeon   2024-03-04
Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty   WINE   2024-03-03
UWP'ed Mesa Running On Microsoft Xbox, Allowing For New Game Ports With OpenGL   Mesa   2024-03-02
Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System   Mesa   2024-03-02
Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D   Mesa   2024-03-01
The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election   X.Org   2024-03-01
Intel Enables Fastboot Across The Board With Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.9   Intel   2024-03-01
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February   Phoronix   2024-03-01
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze   Ubuntu   2024-03-01
Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling   Mesa   2024-02-29
Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4   Radeon   2024-02-29
Mesa 24.0.2 Brings Many Zink Fixes, More Intel Alder Lake N IDs   Mesa   2024-02-29
Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found   Valve   2024-02-29
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default   Nouveau   2024-02-28
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library   Nouveau   2024-02-28
RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-27
Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls   Mesa   2024-02-26
Reverse-Engineered NPU Driver Tantalizingly Close To Proprietary Driver Performance   Mesa   2024-02-26
Linux 6.8-rc6 Released: This Kernel May Need An Extra Week For Testing   Linux Kernel   2024-02-25
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR   Mesa   2024-02-25
Linux 6.8 x86/urgent Update Beefs Up Protection Against Side Channel CPU Bugs   Intel   2024-02-25
CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February   Operating Systems   2024-02-24
Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2024-02-23
Mesa 24.1 Now Builds Zink By Default, Also Building D3D12 Driver By Default On Windows   Mesa   2024-02-23
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 Brings Several New Vulkan Extensions   Radeon   2024-02-23
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Released With Linux 6.5 HWE Kernel   Ubuntu   2024-02-22
Mesa Looks At Making The Zink Driver Build By Default   Mesa   2024-02-22
Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code   Intel   2024-02-21
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs   Mesa   2024-02-21
Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver   Intel   2024-02-19
Intel Making It Easier To Reproduce Linux GPU Hangs On Real Hardware   Intel   2024-02-16
RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For AMD Phoenix APUs   Radeon   2024-02-16
Radeon Software for Linux 23.40.2 Adds Support For Dual RX 7900 / W7800 / W7900 GPUs   Radeon   2024-02-15
Mesa 24.0.1 Released With Various Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2024-02-15
OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver   Apple   2024-02-14
Intel Prepares For New Adaptive Sharpening Filter Coming With Lunar Lake's Xe2 Graphics   Intel   2024-02-14
HITMAN 3 Will Now Launch On Intel GPUs Under Linux After Hiding The GPU Vendor   Intel   2024-02-13
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Sees "Massive Boost" With Indirect Draw Generation   Intel   2024-02-13
Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9   Intel   2024-02-09
Etnaviv NPU Driver Further Boosts Performance, Striking Closer To The Proprietary Driver   Mesa   2024-02-09
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted   Vulkan   2024-02-09
AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For Video Core Next 5 "VCN 5.0"   Radeon   2024-02-08
AMD Updates Mesa Video Driver Code With Geometric Scaling & HLG   Radeon   2024-02-07
Intel Arrow Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Merged For Mesa 24.1   Intel   2024-02-06
The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming   Wayland   2024-02-06
Another Optimization Comes For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing In Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-05
VOPD Scheduler For Valve's ACO Compiler Merged Into Mesa 24.1   Radeon   2024-02-05
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android   Mesa   2024-02-04
Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1   Mesa   2024-02-02
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension   Vulkan   2024-02-01
Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-01-31
Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024   AMD   2024-01-30
Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3   Arch Linux   2024-01-27
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Will Aim To Ship With The Linux 6.8 Kernel   Ubuntu   2024-01-27
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support   Mesa   2024-01-27
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 Brings Gang Submit, Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation   Radeon   2024-01-26
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions   Vulkan   2024-01-25
Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More   Vulkan   2024-01-25
Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable   Mesa   2024-01-24
Teflon Merged To Mesa 24.1 As Gallium3D Frontend For TensorFlow Lite   Mesa   2024-01-24
OBS Merges FFmpeg VA-API AV1 Support   Multimedia   2024-01-24
AMD's Advanced Media Framework Adds Pro Vulkan & Experimental RADV Support   Radeon   2024-01-23
Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Wired Up To Support AMD's Radeon Memory Visualizer   Intel   2024-01-23
Mesa Vulkan Drivers Reach An Inflection Point: Idea Raised To Be More Like Gallium3D   Mesa   2024-01-19
Mesa 24.0-rc2 Released With This Quarter's Release Looking Good   Mesa   2024-01-17
Mesa Eyes Pulling libdrm Into Its Codebase   Mesa   2024-01-17
"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU   Linux Gaming   2024-01-15
Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features   Apple   2024-01-14
Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0   Mesa   2024-01-11
Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver   Linux Kernel   2024-01-11
Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features   Mesa   2024-01-11
Mesa 23.3.3 Released With A Few Fixes For Intel, RADV & Zink   Mesa   2024-01-11
Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache   Nouveau   2024-01-09
RADV Driver Lands "Highly Experimental" Transfer Queue Support   Radeon   2024-01-09
Solus Linux 4.5 Released With AMD ROCm Support, PipeWire Default & Calamares Installer   Operating Systems   2024-01-08
AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024   Radeon   2024-01-08
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs   Linux Kernel   2024-01-07
Mesa RADV Driver Baking Improvements For VKD3D-Proton With AMD FSR3   Mesa   2024-01-07
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins   Mesa   2024-01-05
The Open-Source ATI R300 Graphics Driver Is Still Being Improved Upon In 2024   Radeon   2024-01-04
Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023   Microsoft   2024-01-03
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023   NVIDIA   2024-01-02
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.3 Released With Counter-Strike 2 Optimization, VKD3D Change   Radeon   2024-01-02
Mesa 24.0 Receives Further TGSI-To-NIR Conversion Work For AMD RadeonSI   Radeon   2024-01-02
Intel's Open-Source Contributions & Upstream Performance Optimizations Top 2023   Intel   2024-01-01
Freedreno Now Supports The Qualcomm Adreno 644 GPU   Mesa   2023-12-31