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Mesa 17 Articles & Reviews

The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-20
A Look At The RadeonSI/RADV Performance From Mesa 17.2 To Mesa 18.2   Display Drivers   2018-06-05
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At The Start Of 2018   Display Drivers   2018-01-10
R600g/RadeonSI Gallium3D Performance At The End Of 2017   Display Drivers   2017-12-26
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
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
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
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Radeon Gaming Performance With Linux 4.13 + Mesa 17.2   Operating Systems   2017-08-02
The New Features Of Mesa 17.2   Display Drivers   2017-07-31
Days Away From Branching, How Mesa 17.2 RadeonSI Performance Compares To Mesa 17.1   Display Drivers   2017-07-17
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
NVIDIA vs. Radeon VDPAU Mesa 17.2 Video Decode Performance   Display Drivers   2017-05-26
Radeon RX 560 Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2017-05-22
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 vs. Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev Git   Display Drivers   2017-05-20
OpenGL vs. Vulkan With Intel Kabylake On Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev   Linux Gaming   2017-05-19
Core i7 7700K vs. Ryzen 7 1800X With Ubuntu 17.04 + Linux 4.12   Processors   2017-05-18
Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev Yields Noticeable Advantages For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 17.04   Display Drivers   2017-05-17
Radeon RX 550: AMDGPU-PRO vs. DRM-Next + Mesa 17.2-dev   Display Drivers   2017-05-07
Nouveau Re-Clocked With DRM-Next Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev vs. NVIDIA 381 Driver   Display Drivers   2017-04-27
Radeon RX 580: AMDGPU-PRO vs. DRM-Next + Mesa 17.2-dev   Display Drivers   2017-04-26
Trying Out Nouveau's Accelerated Pascal Support With DRM-Next, Mesa 17.2-dev   Display Drivers   2017-04-25
The Grand Features Of Mesa 17.1: Vega, RadeonSI Shader Cache, Maturing Vulkan, New OpenGL Extensions   Display Drivers   2017-04-21
NVIDIA 381 Linux Beta vs. Linux 4.11 / Mesa 17.1 Radeon Comparison   Display Drivers   2017-04-18
9-Way RadeonSI GPU Tests On Mesa 17.1 + Linux 4.11   Graphics Cards   2017-04-17
RadeonSI Polaris: Mesa 12.0 vs. 13.0 vs. 17.0 vs. 17.1 Git   Display Drivers   2017-04-16
Ubuntu 16.10 vs. 17.04 Radeon Graphics Performance   Display Drivers   2017-04-13
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 vs. Mesa 17.1 RADV/RadeonSI Performance   Display Drivers   2017-04-12
AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM With GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs On Linux 4.11, Mesa 17.1-dev   Display Drivers   2017-04-06
RadeonSI OpenGL vs. RADV Vulkan Performance For Mad Max   Linux Gaming   2017-03-30
This Week's Mesa 17.1-dev + Linux 4.11 Radeon Performance vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   2017-03-22
How The RadeonSI OpenGL Performance Has Evolved From Mesa 11.1 To Mesa 17.1 Git   Display Drivers   2017-03-20
Mesa 13.0 vs. 17.0 vs. 17.1 Git RadeonSI Tests   Display Drivers   2017-03-18
Radeon Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.1-dev vs. NVIDIA 378.13 Graphics Performance   Display Drivers   2017-03-08
Linux 4.11-rc1 + Mesa 17.1 Git Tests With AMDGPU+RadeonSI/RADV   Display Drivers   2017-03-07
RadeonSI Mesa 17.1-dev vs. AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 OpenGL Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2017-02-18
RADV Mesa 17.1-dev vs. AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 Performance   Display Drivers   2017-02-17
Mesa 17.0 Benchmarks With Intel: Noticeably Better Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-02-10
RadeonSI Performance For Civilization VI On Linux With Mesa 17.1 + Linux 4.10   Linux Gaming   2017-02-10
Mesa 13.0 vs. 17.0 Performance For RADV/RadeonSI: Big Gains For Vulkan, OpenGL Boosts   Display Drivers   2017-02-09
The Big Changes, Improvements Of Mesa 17.0   Display Drivers   2017-02-02
Mesa 17.1-dev vs. AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 vs. NVIDIA 378 Linux Gaming Tests   Display Drivers   2017-01-30
AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 Vulkan vs. Mesa 17.1-dev RADV Performance   Display Drivers   2017-01-27
AMDGPU/RadeonSI Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.1-dev vs. NVIDIA 378.09 Performance   Display Drivers   2017-01-27
Nouveau Maxwell: Mesa 17.0 + Linux 4.10 vs. NVIDIA's Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2017-01-22
A Look At The Huge Performance Boosts With Nouveau Mesa 17.0-devel On Maxwell   Display Drivers   2017-01-15

Mesa 17 Linux & Open-Source News

NVIDIA's 2018 Linux Highlights Included Some Open-Source Milestones, But Not Many   NVIDIA   2018-12-30
The Most Popular AMD/Radeon Linux News Of 2018   AMD   2018-12-26
Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2018-12-26
Valve Updates SteamVR AMD Requirements, Recommends Using PPAs On Ubuntu   Valve   2018-10-04
Mesa 18.0.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-04-18
Mesa 17.3.9 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2018-04-18
Mesa 17.3.9 Is Coming With About Two Dozen Fixes To End Out Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2018-04-12
Mesa 17.3.8 Released With A Handful Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-04-03
The Linux-Lima DRM Driver For ARM Mali Hooks Up To The AMDGPU Scheduler   Linux Kernel   2018-04-01
Mesa 17.3.8 Is Being Prepared With Another Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-03-29
Mesa 17.3.7 Released With A Bunch Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-03-21
Mesa 17.3.7 RC2 Issued With Even More Patches   Mesa   2018-03-19
Mesa 17.3.7 Nearing Release With 50+ Changes   Mesa   2018-03-16
Mesa 18.0 Has Been Off The Tracks For More Than One Month   Mesa   2018-03-13
Mesa Developers Working To Figure Out How To Improve Their Release Process   Mesa   2018-03-13
Mesa 17.3.6 Released To Fix Intel GPU Hangs   Mesa   2018-02-26
Mesa 17.3 Remains Quite Buggy, Developer Calls For Better Handling In The Future   Mesa   2018-02-22
Vega Gets Its Last Fix For Dawn of War III On Linux With Vulkan   Radeon   2018-02-20
Mesa 17.3.5 Released To Fix A RADV Bug   Mesa   2018-02-19
Mesa 17.3.4 Released With 90+ Changes   Mesa   2018-02-15
Intel 2017Q4 Graphics Stack Recipe Released   Intel   2018-02-14
Mesa 18.0 Now Under Feature Freeze With 18.0-RC1 Premiere   Mesa   2018-01-23
Trying Out DRM-Next For Linux 4.16 With AMDGPU On Polaris & Vega   Radeon   2018-01-22
openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls To Mesa 17.3, Linux 4.14.13   SUSE   2018-01-19
Mesa 17.3.3 Released With RADV & ANV Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-01-19
Mesa 17.3.3 Is On The Way With Better Vega Support On Vulkan   Mesa   2018-01-16
The Current CPU Driver Usage Difference Between RADV/RadeonSI & NVIDIA   Hardware   2018-01-11
RADV Vulkan Driver Now Supports VK_EXT_discard_rectangles   Radeon   2018-01-10
R600 Gallium3D Gets More Fixes, Experimental SB Tessellation Support   Mesa   2018-01-10
Mesa 17.3.2 Released With The Latest Stable Fixes   Mesa   2018-01-09
Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D Lands OpenGL Bindless Texture Support   Nouveau   2018-01-07
Tessellation Shaders Land For RadeonSI NIR Backend   Radeon   2018-01-05
Valve Ships Its First SteamOS Brewmaster Beta Of 2018   Valve   2018-01-05
Mesa 17.3.2 Being Prepped With Fixes For RADV Vulkan, Unreal Engine 4 Games   Mesa   2018-01-04
10-bit Color Visual Support Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2018-01-04
RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Support For ETC2 Textures   Radeon   2018-01-03
Even With An Intel Core i9 7980XE, LLVMpipe Is Still Slow   Mesa   2018-01-02
Open-Source Driver Progress & Vulkan Dominated December   Phoronix   2018-01-01
Mesa 17.2.2 vs. 17.3.1 vs. 17.4-dev RadeonSI Benchmarks   Radeon   2017-12-31
Nouveau Persevered In 2017 For Open-Source NVIDIA But 2018 Could Be Much Better   Nouveau   2017-12-31
The Vulkan Moments Of 2017: More Games, Better Drivers & Continued Open-Source Adoption   Vulkan   2017-12-27
Freedreno Lands Context Priority Support   Mesa   2017-12-25
Mesa 17.2.8 Released With Just Over One Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2017-12-23
Mesa 17.3.1 Released With Around Three Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2017-12-21
RADV Has Cleared Out Its F1 2017 Vulkan Driver Bugs   Radeon   2017-12-19
Mesa 18.0 Planned For A Mid-February Release   Mesa   2017-12-18
Mesa 17.3.1 Is Being Prepped With Around Three Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2017-12-18
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Support For External Fences   Radeon   2017-12-18
OpenGL 4.3 Support Lands In R600 Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2017-12-18
Struggling Open-Source Support, Pascal Rocking & Other NVIDIA Linux Topics Of 2017   NVIDIA   2017-12-16
Mesa 17.2.7 Released For Those Not Yet On Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2017-12-14
AMD Moving Forward In Their RadeonSI Support For ARB_gl_spirv   Mesa   2017-12-12
Mesa Glthread Gets Adds Another Game, AMDGPU Winsys Gets Performance Workaround   Mesa   2017-12-12
ROSA Desktop Fresh R10 Still Lets You Pick Between KDE 4 & Plasma 5   Operating Systems   2017-12-09
Mesa 17.3 Officially Released: Nearly OpenGL 4.6, Better Vulkan Support   Mesa   2017-12-08
ARB_get_program_binary Implementation Lands In Core Mesa, Intel Driver   Mesa   2017-12-08
David Airlie Continues With Holiday Improvements For R600g   Mesa   2017-12-07
16-Bit Storage, variablePointers Land For ANV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2017-12-06
Many Vulkan Changes Hit Mesa 17.4-dev Git   Mesa   2017-12-04
AMD Raven Ridge APU Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git   AMD   2017-12-04
Qt 5.10 RC3 Released, Qt 5.10 Now Expected This Week   Qt   2017-12-04
Mesa 17.3-RC6 Released, Final Now Expected This Week   Mesa   2017-12-04
The Top Mesa News Of 2017   Mesa   2017-12-03
Linux 4.15, Distro Performance & Open-Source Radeon Excitement Ends November   Phoronix   2017-11-30
Gallium3D Gets Patches For ARB_get_program_binary, Complementing Intel's Work   Mesa   2017-11-28
Freedreno A4xx Picks Up Some More OpenGL 4 Extensions   Mesa   2017-11-26
Mesa 17.2.6 Released With 53 Changes While Mesa 17.3 Is Around The Corner   Mesa   2017-11-25
There's An ARM Mali Gallium3D Driver Still Being Developed   Mesa   2017-11-25
Mesa 17.2.6 RC Arrives With 50+ Fixes   Mesa   2017-11-24
Early Linux 4.15 AMDGPU Linux Gaming Tests Indicate Some Regressions   Radeon   2017-11-21
Mesa 17.3-RC5 Released, Official Mesa 3D Update Expected By Next Week   Mesa   2017-11-20
Intel 2017Q3 Graphics Stack Recipe Released   Intel   2017-11-19
Linux 4.15 Is A Huge Update For Both AMD CPU & Radeon GPU Owners   AMD   2017-11-18
Radeon VCN Encode Support Lands In Mesa 17.4 Git   Mesa   2017-11-17
R600 Gallium3D Shader Image Support Lands, Other R600g Patches Pending   Mesa   2017-11-17
OpenGL 4.2 Support Could Soon Land For AMD Cayman GPUs On R600g   Mesa   2017-11-14
RADV Will Now Enable "Sisched" For The Talos Principle, Boosting Frame Rates   Radeon   2017-11-14
Mesa 17.3-RC4 Released, Handful Of Blocker Bugs Still Left   Mesa   2017-11-14
Fedora 27 Debuts With GNOME 3.26 Powered Workstation Spin, Modular Server Coming   Fedora   2017-11-14
Mesa 17.2.5 Released   Mesa   2017-11-11
Intel Mesa Driver Restores Support For SuperTuxKart, Adds EGL_KHR_gl_colorspace   Mesa   2017-11-09
More RADV Radeon Vulkan Optimizations Are In The Works   Mesa   2017-11-08
Mesa 17.3-RC3 Released As The Quarterly Update Nears   Mesa   2017-11-07
Flush Control Support Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2017-11-07
RADV Gets Fixed Up For Latest Dota 2 Vulkan   Radeon   2017-11-03
Feral Releases F1 2017 For Linux, More Details On The Vulkan Driver Requirements   Linux Gaming   2017-11-02
Intel i965 Mesa Driver Finally Lands Its On-Disk Shader Cache   Intel   2017-11-01
Feral Announces F1 2017 Linux System Requirements   Linux Gaming   2017-10-31
Mesa 17.2.4 Released While Mesa 17.3 Continues To Bake   Mesa   2017-10-30
Etnaviv Gallium3D Reaches OpenGL 2.1   Mesa   2017-10-30
OpenGL 4.6 Didn't Make It For Mesa 17.3, But It's Getting Close   Mesa   2017-10-24
Mesa 17.3 By The Numbers   Mesa   2017-10-24
Mesa 17.3 Has Been Branched   Mesa   2017-10-23
Android-x86 7.1-rc2 Now Supports NVMe SSDs, Better QEMU VirGL   Operating Systems   2017-10-22
i965 Shader Cache Revised As It Still Might Squeeze Into Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2017-10-22
Valve Developer Lands VK_EXT_global_priority For RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-10-21
Intel Wires In EGL Context Priority Support For Their Mesa Driver   Mesa   2017-10-20
Occlusion Queries Land In Etnaviv For Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2017-10-20
Many Vega Improvements & Other Fixes Land In Mesa For RADV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2017-10-20
Mesa 17.2.3 Offers Vulkan Fixes, Gallium3D Updates   Mesa   2017-10-19
Intel OpenGL Shader Cache Revised Once More   Intel   2017-10-19
DRM Leasing Support To Land For Linux 4.15   X.Org   2017-10-19
A Look At The New Features For Fedora 27   Fedora   2017-10-18
Etnaviv Gallium3D Is Almost To OpenGL 2.0 Compliance   Mesa   2017-10-17
Meson-ized Mesa Now Supports More Drivers   Mesa   2017-10-17
Mesa 17.3 Will Be Branching Soon For Releasing In Mid-November   Mesa   2017-10-12
Another Minor Performance Optimization For RADV   Radeon   2017-10-12
RADV Vulkan Driver Gets An On-Disk Shader Cache   Vulkan   2017-10-11
Testing Primitive Binning With Vega 10 On RadeonSI   Radeon   2017-10-08
More AMDGPU DC + RadeonSI/RADV vs. NVIDIA Linux OpenGL+Vulkan Benchmarks   Hardware   2017-10-05
RADV Is Now Considered A Vulkan Conformant Driver   Radeon   2017-10-04
RADV Vulkan Squeezes A Bit More Performance Out Of Mad Max   Radeon   2017-10-04
S3TC Support Lands In Mesa Git Along With An OpenGL 4.6 Extension For Intel   Mesa   2017-10-03
Mesa 17.2.2 Released   Mesa   2017-10-02
S3TC Support Will Land In Mesa Now That The Patent Has Expired   Mesa   2017-10-02
Mesa 17.2.2 Set For Release Next Week   Mesa   2017-09-30
Outlast Gets ~10%+ Performance Boost From Mesa GL Threading   Mesa   2017-09-30
An Ubuntu Kernel Spin Of AMDGPU DC "drm-next-4.15-dc"   Radeon   2017-09-28
Initial Meson Build System Support Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2017-09-28
Mesa 17.1.10 Released, Time To Upgrade To Mesa 17.2   Mesa   2017-09-25
Mesa 17.1.10 Is Being Prepped As The Final 17.1 Update   Mesa   2017-09-21
Intel ANV Lands New Vulkan 1.0.61 Extensions, Android Prep Support   Intel   2017-09-18
RadeonSI OoO Rasterization Lands In Mesa 17.3 For RX Vega & VI GPUs   Mesa   2017-09-18
Mesa 17.2.1 Released With Restored RADV Vulkan RX Vega Support   Mesa   2017-09-17
Ryzen & RX Vega Totally Dominated This Summer For Linux Users   Hardware   2017-09-17
Mesa 17.2.1 Being Prepped For Release Next Week   Mesa   2017-09-15
Mesa GL Threading Gets Flipped On For More Linux Games   Mesa   2017-09-14
VK_EXT_debug_report Lands For Intel's Vulkan Driver   Intel   2017-09-12
Mesa 17.1.9 Released For Those Not Yet On Mesa 17.2   Mesa   2017-09-09
RADV Vulkan Driver Now Has Working Support For Radeon RX Vega GPUs   Vulkan   2017-09-06
Mesa 17.2 Officially Released   Mesa   2017-09-04
RADV Driver Enables Command Buffer Chaining, Boosts Dota 2 Performance   Radeon   2017-09-04
Ryzen 7, Threadripper & Radeon RX Vega Generated A Ton Of Linux Buzz   Phoronix   2017-09-01
Intel Vulkan & OpenGL Kabylake Benchmarks With Linux 4.13, Mesa 17.3-dev   Vulkan   2017-08-31
Mesa 17.2 Set For Release This Weekend   Mesa   2017-08-31
LLVMpipe & OpenSWR OpenGL Riding Off Threadripper   AMD   2017-08-30
Intel Lands Vulkan External Fences Support   Intel   2017-08-29
Ubuntu 17.10 Enters The Feature Freeze   Ubuntu   2017-08-26
Only SPIR-V & KHR_no_error Are Left Blocking OpenGL 4.6 In Mesa   Mesa   2017-08-25
VK_KHX_multiview Patches For RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2017-08-23
VC5 Gallium3D Driver Close To Merging To Mainline Mesa   Mesa   2017-08-22
More Vega/GFX9 Fixes Posted For RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-08-22
RadeonSI Gets Performance Boost For Dawn of War III   Linux Gaming   2017-08-22
Mesa 17.1.7 Brings Various Fixes For Users Of Stable Open-Source 3D Drivers   Mesa   2017-08-21
Mesa 17.2-RC5 Released, Final Should Come Within One Week   Mesa   2017-08-21
Mesa 17.1.7 Being Prepped For Release   Mesa   2017-08-19
Intel Gets Back To Working On Their OpenGL Shader Cache   Intel   2017-08-19
Mesa Temporarily Disabling Support For Vega In RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-08-17
Trying amd-staging-drm-next With The Radeon RX Vega   Radeon   2017-08-16
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Supports External Semaphores   Intel   2017-08-16