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PRIME Articles & Reviews

Trying DragonFlyBSD & FreeBSD On The Intel Core i9 9900K With ASUS PRIME Z390-A   Operating Systems   2018-11-14
8-Way Linux Distribution Benchmarks On The Intel Core i9 9900K - One Distro Wins 67% Of The Time   Operating Systems   2018-10-25
ASUS PRIME Z370-A Running Great On Linux   Motherboards   2017-10-25
ASUS PRIME Z270-P Kabylake Motherboard Works Fine On Linux   Motherboards   2017-01-24
Using PowerTOP 2.6 Saves Power, Extends Battery Life On Ubuntu 14.04   Software   2014-05-24
Testing NVIDIA Optimus / DRI PRIME On Ubuntu 14.04   Display Drivers   2014-04-28
G.SKILL 8GB DDR3 Laptop Memory On A Linux Ultrabook   Memory   2014-01-05
ASUS Zenbook Prime Linux Benchmarks   Computers   2013-12-28
NVIDIA Optimus On Ubuntu 13.10 Linux vs. Windows 8.1   Graphics Cards   2013-12-17
ASRock X58 SuperComputer   Motherboards   2009-04-27
Logitech Alto Express   Peripherals   2008-03-20
Fedora 7 Prime "Moonshine"   Operating Systems   2007-05-31
Fedora 7 Test 3 Live   Operating Systems   2007-03-29
Fedora Core 5 Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2006-02-21
Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Plus   Peripherals   2006-01-29
Prime Cooler Water Cooling Preview   Peripherals   2005-10-20
Prime Cooler 1PC-VGAHP 1 VGA Cooler   Peripherals   2005-06-24
Prime Cooler CoolPad (PC-NTB)   Peripherals   2005-06-16
Prime Cooler Hypercool III+ & Hypercool 4+   Peripherals   2005-01-07

PRIME Linux & Open-Source News

AMD Announces Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs - AI Focused & Newer Arm Cores   AMD   2024-04-09
NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable   NVIDIA   2024-02-23
NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland   NVIDIA   2024-01-24
Linux 6.8 Upstreams More Intel TDX Bits For Protecting KVM Guests   Intel   2024-01-12
NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support   NVIDIA   2023-10-31
NVIDIA 535.98 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes   NVIDIA   2023-08-08
NVIDIA 535.86.05 Linux Driver Fixes Excessive Memory Use, Kernel Panic On Full vRAM   NVIDIA   2023-07-18
Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6   Linux Kernel   2023-07-13
AMD Improving Xen VirtIO GPU Support For In-Vehicle Infotainment, Using RADV   AMD   2023-07-05
NVIDIA 545 Linux Driver To Support Vulkan Apps With PRIME On Wayland   NVIDIA   2023-06-09
NVIDIA R535 Linux Beta Brings New Vulkan Extensions, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol   NVIDIA   2023-05-30
100+ More ASUS Motherboards Enabled For Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.4   Hardware   2023-04-26
NVIDIA 530.41.03 Linux Driver Released With IBT Kernel Support, Vulkan Video   NVIDIA   2023-03-23
36+ More ASUS Motherboards Will Enjoy Sensor Monitoring Support With Linux 6.4   Hardware   2023-03-20
OpenSSL 3.1 Released With Performance Optimizations, More AVX-512   Free Software   2023-03-14
Linux 6.4 To Enable Sensor Monitoring On More ASUS Z590 Motherboards   Linux Kernel   2023-03-11
NVIDIA 530.30.02 Linux Beta Driver Released   NVIDIA   2023-02-28
Linux 6.3 Supports Sensor Monitoring For Many ASUS B650/B660/X670 Motherboards   Hardware   2023-02-26
NVIDIA Lands X.Org Server Support For PRIME Render Offload On FreeBSD   BSD   2023-02-24
Mesa EGL X11/Wayland Code Receives Optimization For Multi-GPU/PRIME Systems   Mesa   2023-01-30
NVIDIA 525.78.01 Linux Driver Released With Support For The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti   NVIDIA   2023-01-05
Trying Out The BSDs On The Intel Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake"   BSD   2022-12-01
NVIDIA 525.60.11 Linux Driver Released With Many Fixes, Vulkan Improvements   NVIDIA   2022-11-28
IBM Sends Out Initial Patches For "Dense Math" Support With Future Power CPUs   Programming   2022-11-15
Wine 7.19 Released With VKD3D 1.5, MPEG-4 Audio Support   WINE   2022-10-14
Linux 6.1 HWMON Nukes The Short-Lived ASUS Driver, Other Monitoring Improvements   Linux Kernel   2022-10-03
Linux 6.0 Merges The AMD Performance Fix For The Old "Dummy Wait" Workaround   AMD   2022-09-26
A 20 Year Old Chipset Workaround Has Been Hurting Modern AMD Linux Systems   AMD   2022-09-26
Short-Lived ASUS Sensors Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Better Alternative   Hardware   2022-08-30
ASpeed DRM Driver Adding DMA-BUF/PRIME Sharing For Use With Servers Having dGPUs   Linux Kernel   2022-08-29
Lutris 0.5.11 Released With Amazon Games Integration, Gamescope For NVIDIA R515+   Linux Gaming   2022-08-25
More ASUS Motherboards Will Have Working Sensor Support With Linux 5.20   Hardware   2022-07-18
Intel's ANV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier - Important For VKD3D-Proton   Intel   2022-07-09
RADV Lands VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier, VKD3D-Proton Prepares Usage   Valve   2022-07-06
Vulkan 1.3.219 Released With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2022-07-02
Linux Continues Playing Catch Up To Windows For Desktop Hardware Monitoring Support   Hardware   2022-05-24
Mozilla Firefox 100 Now Available With Various Improvements   Mozilla   2022-05-03
OpenSSH 9.0 Released With Hardening Against Future Quantum Computers   Free Software   2022-04-08
Newer ASUS Motherboards To See Improved Sensor Handling With Linux 5.18   Hardware   2022-03-21
Amazon Officially Launches Luna In The US - Limited Linux Support   Linux Gaming   2022-03-01
Improved ASUS Motherboard Sensor Monitoring To Arrive With Linux 5.18   Hardware   2022-02-06
Radeon RADV Optimizations In Mesa 22.0 Improve PRIME/Hybrid GPU Performance   Mesa   2022-01-11
Linux 5.17 Adds Sensor Monitoring Support To Many More ASUS Motherboards   Hardware   2022-01-11
Several Older NVIDIA Tegra Powered Tablets To Be Supported By Linux 5.17   NVIDIA   2021-11-26
More ASRock & ASUS Motherboards Will Have Working Sensors With Linux 5.16   Hardware   2021-11-03
Radeon Gallium3D Picks Up A Nice Performance Optimization For iGPU/dGPU PRIME Setups   Radeon   2021-10-07
Linux 5.16 To Support Sensor Readings On More ASUS Motherboards   Hardware   2021-09-19
Intel Posts Initial Code For x86 User Interrupts On Linux - Shows Great Performance Potential   Intel   2021-09-13
Intel Starts Bringing Up Thunder Bay Full + Prime SoC Support For Linux   Intel   2021-07-22
NVIDIA Posts 470 Linux Driver Beta With Better Wayland Support, DLSS + Improved PRIME   NVIDIA   2021-06-22
NomadBSD 1.4 Released With GUI For Easier Chrome / Brave / Vivaldi Browser Installation   BSD   2021-03-03
NomadBSD 1.4 Working On An Improved Installer, Better Driver Detection   BSD   2021-01-28
NVIDIA 460.32.03 Linux Driver Released With Official Vulkan Ray-Tracing   NVIDIA   2021-01-07
NVIDIA 460.27.04 Linux Beta Driver Has Ray-Tracing, Many Other Changes   NVIDIA   2020-12-15
NVIDIA 455.38 Linux Driver Released With RTX 3070 Support, AMD SME Compatibility   NVIDIA   2020-10-29
Ubuntu 20.10 Beta Released For Testing   Ubuntu   2020-10-01
ADRIConf Remains The Primary GUI Control Panel For Managing Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2020-09-22
Linus Torvalds: "I Hope AVX512 Dies A Painful Death"   Intel   2020-07-11
NVIDIA 450.57 Linux Driver Released With Image Sharpening Option, NGX Library   NVIDIA   2020-07-09
NVIDIA 450.51 Linux Driver Beta Adds NGX Library, PRIME Improvements   NVIDIA   2020-06-24
NVIDIA 450 Linux Beta Driver Quietly Rolls Out With New PRIME Option, Other Improvements   NVIDIA   2020-06-07
GNOME Adds Bit To Launcher Files For Indicating Apps That Should Run On Discrete GPUs   GNOME   2020-05-04
Mesa 20.1 Adds A Vulkan Device Selection Layer For Better Handling Multi-GPU Setups   Mesa   2020-04-28
NVIDIA 440.66.11 Linux Driver Fixes Annoying Bugs With PRIME Sync   NVIDIA   2020-04-24
X.Org Server 1.20.8 Released With No Sign Of GLAMOR/XWayland-Improved X.Org Server 1.21   X.Org   2020-03-30
Arch-Based Manjaro 19.0 Released With Flagship Edition Using Xfce 4.14   Arch Linux   2020-02-25
NVIDIA 440.59 Linux Driver Brings DP MST Audio, PRIME Sync For Linux 5.4+   NVIDIA   2020-02-03
RenderDoc 1.6 Released, NVIDIA + AMD + Intel All Primed For Vulkan 1.2   Vulkan   2020-01-15
Manjaro 19.0 Preview Images For KDE + GNOME Available For Testing   Arch Linux   2020-01-07
Lutris 0.5.4 Released For This Linux Game Management Tool   Linux Gaming   2019-11-26
X.Org Server 1.20.6 Released With Many Bug Fixes - Helps XWayland, PRIME + Other Bits   X.Org   2019-11-23
NVIDIA 440.31 Linux Driver Adds HDMI 2.1 VRR Support, VP9 Decode, DXVK Fixes   NVIDIA   2019-11-04
Codeplay Launches Open-Source 'SYCL Academy' To Learn This Increasingly Popular Standard   Programming   2019-10-20
NVIDIA 440.26 Beta Linux Driver Brings HDMI 2.1 VRR, VP9 VDPAU Decode + Much More   NVIDIA   2019-10-17
VKMS Getting PRIME Import Support For Helping To Test Linux's PRIME Functionality   X.Org   2019-08-26
NVIDIA 435.17 Linux Beta Driver Adds Vulkan + OpenGL PRIME Render Offload   NVIDIA   2019-08-13
X.Org Server 1.20.5 Released With A Few XWayland & GLAMOR Fixes   X.Org   2019-05-30
PRIME GPU Offloading Improvement For GLXVND Merged For X.Org Server 1.21   X.Org   2019-05-18
NVIDIA Working On New GLX Extension To Help PRIME GPU Offloading   X.Org   2019-04-25
Trying Out The Radeon VII On Ubuntu 19.04 As Well As Linux 5.1 + Mesa 19.1   Radeon   2019-04-10
ADriConf Looks To Move Under The Mesa Umbrella As Linux Driver Configuration Utility   Mesa   2019-04-02
Primus-VK: PRIME-Style GPU Offloading For Vulkan   Vulkan   2019-03-23
NVIDIA 418.56 Linux Driver Released With GeForce MX230 / MX250 Support   NVIDIA   2019-03-20
IGT Is Helping Keep Intel's Display Driver & Other DRM/KMS Drivers In Good Shape   Intel   2019-02-08
Mesa To See Better Infrastructure For Supporting Render-Only GPUs   Mesa   2019-01-27
Linux CoC, Debian, Speck & Kernel Happenings Rounded Out Q4-2018   Free Software   2018-12-28
The Most Popular Intel Linux News & Reviews Of 2018   Intel   2018-12-25
The Smaller DRM Drivers Have Another Batch Of Changes For Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2018-11-28
NVIDIA 415.18 Linux Driver Released: Adds HardDPMS, Fixes Wine Bug & Much More   NVIDIA   2018-11-20
NVIDIA 415.13 Beta Linux Graphics Driver Released With Assorted Improvements   NVIDIA   2018-11-08
NVIDIA RTX, AMD On Linux & Distro Performance Dominated Linux Discussions In October   Phoronix   2018-11-01
NVIDIA 410.73 Linux Driver Released With Quadro RTX 5000/6000 Support   NVIDIA   2018-10-25
Raptor Computing Systems Is Working On Bringing Up Chrome's POWER Support   Free Software   2018-10-17
Deepin 15.7 Ships With Power/Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA PRIME Support   Operating Systems   2018-08-20
The DRM Changes Coming With The Linux 4.19 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-07-25
Nouveau Changes Queue Ahead Of Linux 4.19   Nouveau   2018-07-19
IT87 Linux Driver For Supporting Many Motherboard Sensors Is Facing Death   Linux Kernel   2018-07-17
CentOS 6.10 Released, Scientific Linux 6.10 Coming Next Week   Red Hat   2018-07-06
Advanced DRI Configurator Now Supports PRIME GPU Setups   Mesa   2018-03-24
AMD's Raven Ridge Botchy Linux Support Appears Worse With Some Motherboards/BIOS   AMD   2018-02-19
GLXVND Support Lands In Git For X.Org Server 1.20   X.Org   2018-02-15
GLXVND Server Module / Server-Side GLVND Updated For X.Org Server   X.Org   2018-02-03
Deep Color Support For Radeon X.Org Driver Being Tackled   Radeon   2018-01-22
NVIDIA Contributes Some New Tegra/Nouveau Patches   Nouveau   2018-01-11
MPV Player 0.28 Adds Initial Vulkan Support   Multimedia   2017-12-25
Many Vulkan Changes Hit Mesa 17.4-dev Git   Mesa   2017-12-04
Linux 4.15 Is A Huge Update For Both AMD CPU & Radeon GPU Owners   AMD   2017-11-18
DRM Updates Land For Linux 4.15; Torvalds: "There's Something Odd About DRM People"   Linux Kernel   2017-11-16
Valve's Steam Link Is Back On Sale For $15 USD   Valve   2017-10-30
AMD Submits Initial AMDGPU DRM Updates Slated For Linux 4.15   AMD   2017-09-26
NVIDIA Making Progress On Server-Side GLVND: Different Drivers For Different X Screens   NVIDIA   2017-09-23
The DRM Changes For The Linux 4.14 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2017-09-16
NVIDIA 384.59 Linux Driver Released Along With 375.82   NVIDIA   2017-07-24
NVIDIA's Server-Side GLVND Implementation   X.Org   2017-07-21
Server-Side GLVND Being Hacked On, Could Help PRIME Laptops & More   X.Org   2017-07-18
Benchmarking The Potato & Firefly: New ARM Linux Boards   Arm   2017-07-13
What Excites Me The Most About The Linux 4.12 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2017-06-30
More AMDGPU DC Patches Posted As It Looks Unlikely It Will Land For Linux 4.13   Radeon   2017-06-09
Experimental Patches For ARB_parallel_shader_compile In Mesa   Mesa   2017-04-17
GLAMOR 2D Tests On Ubuntu 17.04 With X.Org Server 1.19   Ubuntu   2017-04-13
X.Org Server 1.19 Lands In Ubuntu 17.04   Ubuntu   2017-04-05
More Details On The Proposed Inputfd Protocol For Wayland   Wayland   2017-04-02
Ubuntu 17.04 Still Hasn't Landed X.Org Server 1.19   Ubuntu   2017-03-25
Initial PRIME Support Lands In RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-02-26
RADV Vulkan Driver's PRIME Code Rewritten   Radeon   2017-02-21
NVIDIA 378.13 Linux Driver Released   NVIDIA   2017-02-14
NVIDIA 378.09 Driver Adds Multi-Threaded GLSL Shader Compilation, Vulkan Extensions   NVIDIA   2017-01-18
X.Org Server Development Continues Trending Quite Low   X.Org   2016-12-27
NVIDIA Developer Posts Auto PRIME Detection, Mesa USB Loader Support   Mesa   2016-12-23
RADV Lands More Improvements & Other New Patches Pending   Radeon   2016-11-24
RADV Vulkan Driver Patch For Initial PRIME Support   Vulkan   2016-11-23
Linux 4.9 Has Tear-Free PRIME Offloading Between Intel & AMDGPU   AMD   2016-11-20
X.Org Server 1.19 Officially Released With A Year's Worth Of Improvements   X.Org   2016-11-15
Fedora 25's Hybrid Graphics Improvements, To Support NVIDIA Wayland EGLStreams   Fedora   2016-11-01
Nouveau 1.0.13 X.Org Driver Released   Nouveau   2016-09-22
XDC2016 Day 1: GLVND, Tizen Wayland/Vulkan, PRIME Sync   X.Org   2016-09-21
X.Org Server 1.19 Is Ready To Freeze, Almost 600 Changes   X.Org   2016-09-17
Modesetting, PRIME Cursor Improvements Land In X.Org Server   X.Org   2016-09-13
NVIDIA 370.28 Linux Driver Has Pascal Overclocking, PRIME Sync, PixelShiftMode   NVIDIA   2016-09-08
Improved Tear-Free Rendering For Radeon DDX With PRIME   Radeon   2016-09-06
X.Org Server 1.19 Proposed For Release Next Month   X.Org   2016-09-04
OpenGL ES 3.1 For Haswell Lands With Intel's Mesa Driver   Mesa   2016-08-26
AMDGPU SI Winsys Support, Other Radeon Changes Hit Mesa Git   Mesa   2016-08-26
NVIDIA 370 Beta Has Experimental PRIME Synchronization   NVIDIA   2016-08-19
RadeonSI Performance Improvement For DRI PRIME Offloading   Mesa   2016-08-18
Google Developers Improve Mesa's Android EGL Support   Google   2016-07-15
Today Marks Amazon's Second Prime Day   Premium   2016-07-12
PRIME Synchronization & Double Buffering Land In The X.Org Server   X.Org   2016-06-28
A KMS Driver Is Coming For Mini USB Projectors   Hardware   2016-06-03
Gallium3D Nine Gets Numerous Improvements Ahead Of Next Mesa Release   Mesa   2016-05-15