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R9 290 Articles & Reviews

AMDGPU-PRO Beta 2 vs. Mesa 11.3 + Linux 4.6: Very Competitive For Linux Gamers   Display Drivers   2016-05-24
Catalyst vs. AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM On A R9 290: Experimental AMDGPU Can Be Faster   Display Drivers   2016-01-29
GLAMOR + RadeonSI 2D Acceleration Is Quite Good For Open-Source AMD 2D Performance   Display Drivers   2015-04-29
AMD Radeon R9 290 OpenGL On Ubuntu 15.04: Catalyst vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D   Display Drivers   2015-04-28
12-Way AMD Catalyst 14.12 vs. NVIDIA 346 Series Linux GPU Comparison   Display Drivers   2014-12-12
6-Way Ubuntu 14.10 Radeon Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Driver Comparison   Display Drivers   2014-10-29
AMD Radeon R9 290 On Ubuntu 14.10: RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. Catalyst   Display Drivers   2014-10-28
AMD Radeon R9 290: Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Drivers   Display Drivers   2014-08-26
AMD Radeon R9 290 Open-Source Driver Works, But Has A Ways To Go   Display Drivers   2014-08-25
AMD Radeon R9 290 On Ubuntu 14.04 With Catalyst Can Beat Windows 8.1   Display Drivers   2014-05-18
AMD Radeon R9 290 Linux Update With Source Engine On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS   Linux Gaming   2014-04-03
AMD Radeon R9 290: Still Not Good For Linux Users   Graphics Cards   2014-02-16
NVIDIA Is Still Killing AMD Over Linux OpenGL Performance   Display Drivers   2014-01-20
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 13.10   Graphics Cards   2013-11-25
AMD Radeon R9 290 Is Still A Wreck On Linux   Graphics Cards   2013-11-24
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Steams Ahead On Linux   Graphics Cards   2013-11-22
AMD Radeon R9 290 On Linux   Graphics Cards   2013-11-19
8-Way AMD Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Ubuntu GPU Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2013-11-16

R9 290 Linux & Open-Source News

AMDGPU Linux Driver To Finally Enable BACO For Hawaii - Allowing S4/Hibernation   Radeon   2020-10-28
Feral Announces Linux System Requirements For Vulkan-Powered Total War: WARHAMMER II   Linux Gaming   2018-11-12
Thrones of Britannia Being Released For Linux Next Month   Linux Gaming   2018-05-22
Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia Coming To Linux In A Month Or Two   Linux Gaming   2018-05-01
A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA Is Coming To Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-02-19
Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE Provides More Steam VR Linux Gaming Fun   Linux Gaming   2017-11-10
HITMAN Game of the Year Edition Released For Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-11-07
The Talos Principle VR Launches With Linux Support   Linux Gaming   2017-10-17
Ethereum Ethminer Performance With Radeon & GeForce OpenCL - August 2017   Hardware   2017-08-09
Some AMD Grenada Cards Have Been Borked On The Open-Source Driver For 2 Years   AMD   2017-07-21
Micro Machines World Series Debuts With Linux Support   Linux Gaming   2017-06-29
Micro Machines World Series Is Driving On Linux This Month   Linux Gaming   2017-06-01
Superposition Shows How Far RadeonSI Gallium3D Has Evolved vs. AMDGPU-PRO   Radeon   2017-04-12
Serious Sam VR Arrives For Linux; Our Linux VR Testing Begins Tomorrow   Linux Gaming   2017-02-23
RadeonSI Works Surprisingly Well With HITMAN On Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-02-16
HITMAN Now Available For Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-02-16
HITMAN On Linux Will Work With Mesa 13.0+ Or NVIDIA   Linux Gaming   2017-02-09
Radeon R9 290 Testing Update With Linux 4.10, AMDGPU-PRO 16.50   Radeon   2017-01-02
A 2016 Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays From Phoronix   Phoronix   2016-12-25
The Strange Behavior Of My Radeon R9 290 Is Still There   AMD   2016-12-18
AMDGPU-PRO 16.40 Tests On Deus Ex: Mankind Divided With Ubuntu 16.04   Linux Gaming   2016-11-21
GTX 1060 vs. RX 480 - The ~$200 GPU Decision For Linux Gamers   Hardware   2016-11-19
Mesa Fixes Random GPU Hangs On AMD Hawaii & Fiji GPUs   Mesa   2016-10-27
Here's An Ubuntu/Debian Kernel To Play With AMDGPU On GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Radeon   2016-10-06
Regressed R9 290 Isn't Affected By Issue When Using AMDGPU DRM Driver   Radeon   2016-10-04
Linux+Mesa Git Remains Problematic For Some Regressed R9 290 GPUs   AMD   2016-09-14
A Mesa Fix Lands To Take Care Of The R9 290 Issue, Intel/Radeon Performance Problems   Mesa   2016-09-06
10-Way Radeon/AMDGPU Benchmarks On Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1 Git   Radeon   2016-08-21
That Radeon Performance Regression For R9 290 Might Be Nailed   Radeon   2016-08-15
Why The R9 290 & Other Select Radeon GPUs Are Performing Miserably On Linux 4.7   Radeon   2016-06-20
5-Way Mesa 12.1-dev + Linux 4.7 Git Radeon Comparison   Radeon   2016-06-19
AMDGPU-PRO vs. Linux 4.7 + Mesa 12.1-dev OpenGL Benchmarks   Radeon   2016-06-12
Steam Client Stable vs. Beta Tests With Vulkan On AMDGPU-PRO   Valve   2016-06-10
AMDGPU, Dota 2 Vulkan, NVIDIA Pascal Were Wowing Linux Users   Phoronix   2016-05-31
17-Way NVIDIA Binary vs. AMD Open-Source Linux 4.6 / Mesa Git Driver Tests   Hardware   2016-05-31
OpenGL Tessellation Is Significantly Faster Now On AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2016-05-28
AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL vs. NVIDIA 364 Compute Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux   Hardware   2016-05-24
Trying The Padoka PPA For The Latest RadeonSI Experience On Ubuntu 16.04   Radeon   2016-05-12
Early Radeon Vulkan Windows vs. AMDGPU PRO Linux Benchmarks   Radeon   2016-04-09
Fedora 24 Alpha X.Org vs. (X)Wayland Gaming Tests   Fedora   2016-03-31
Radeon DRI3 Performance On Ubuntu 16.04   Ubuntu   2016-03-17
RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Competing Remarkably Well For Valve's Dota 2 On Linux   Mesa   2016-02-15
R600g+SI Dota 2 Benchmarks With Mesa 11.2, Linux 4.5 Show Open Driver Progress   Linux Gaming   2016-02-13
Some Fresh Radeon EXA/GLAMOR 2D Acceleration Benchmarks   Radeon   2016-02-11
Here Is My Linux 4.5-rc3 Kernel Spin With AMDGPU PowerPlay & CIK Enabled   Ubuntu   2016-02-08
RadeonSI Gallium3D Can Work With XCOM 2 On Linux   Mesa   2016-02-04
RadeonSI/R600g Mesa 11.2-devel Clover OpenCL Benchmarks On Linux 4.5   Radeon   2016-02-02
It Can Be Worthwhile Upgrading Your Open-Source Radeon Driver On Ubuntu 15.10   Radeon   2016-01-31
Running The Radeon R7 260X With The Experimental AMDGPU Driver   Radeon   2016-01-31
Trying To Run The AMDGPU Driver With A Hawaii GPU On Linux 4.5   Radeon   2016-01-27
Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Start, But Linux Support Is Still Halted   Hardware   2016-01-06
An Interesting Difference Between AMD & NVIDIA Linux Drivers When Comparing System Usage   Hardware   2016-01-06
Will Linux 4.5 Bring Any Performance Boost For Pre-AMDGPU Radeon?   Radeon   2015-12-24
What Alien Isolation Looks Like On The Open-Source AMD Linux Driver   Linux Gaming   2015-10-27
The Impact Of Switching To Linux 4.3 + Mesa-11.1/LLVM-3.8 On Ubuntu 15.10   AMD   2015-10-20
AMD Radeon R9 290: Ubuntu 15.04 vs. 15.10 - Don't Expect Much Better Performance   Ubuntu   2015-10-19
Feral Interactive Appears To Be Stepping Up Its AMD Linux Game   Linux Gaming   2015-08-24
RadeonSI With OpenGL 4 Showing Nice Performance Against Catalyst   Radeon   2015-08-22
See How Your Linux System Stacks Up To 15 GPUs For 1080p Gaming   Hardware   2015-07-26
AMD Catalyst 15.7 Linux Benchmarks: R9 290 Hawaii & R9 285 Tonga   AMD   2015-07-09
A Look At CS:GO & TF2 On AMD GPUs With The Open-Source Driver   AMD   2015-07-08
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Launches Today, Initial Results A Bit Of A Let Down   Radeon   2015-06-24
AMD Announces The Rx 300 Series, Fiji-Based Fury X, R9 Nano, Project Quantum   AMD   2015-06-16
AMD Radeon R9 290: Linux 4.0 vs. Linux 4.1 Git   Linux Kernel   2015-05-06
Radeon R9 390X Could Cost $700+ USD   Radeon   2015-03-16
AMD R9 290 Hawaii Users Will Have An Important Fix With Linux 3.20   AMD   2015-02-13
New ARM Boards, Kernel Improvements Won Over December   Phoronix   2015-01-01
Radeon For Linux 3.19 Picks Up DPM Fixes, Better TTM Performance   Radeon   2014-11-12
Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Many Great Features   Linux Kernel   2014-10-05
Radeon 7.5 X.Org Driver Enables Hawaii, Adds New PCI IDs   Radeon   2014-10-02
The Top Features Of The Linux 3.17 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2014-09-27
AMD, Wine & Valve Dominated August For Linux Users   Phoronix   2014-09-01
Ubuntu 14.10's Lack Of X.Org Server 1.16 Gets Blamed On AMD   AMD   2014-08-31
Preview Of AMD Radeon R9 290 Hawaii Open-Source Performance   Linux Kernel   2014-08-23
The New Features Of The Linux 3.17 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2014-08-17
AMD's Radeon DDX Enables Hawaii Acceleration By Default   Radeon   2014-08-12
The Exciting Features Merged So Far For Linux 3.17   Linux Kernel   2014-08-10
Linux 3.17 DRM Pull Brings New Graphics Driver   Linux Kernel   2014-08-08
AMD Radeon Graphics Get Many Changes For Linux 3.17   Radeon   2014-08-05
Hawaii Bug-Fixes Start Hitting Mainline RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2014-07-29
Open-Source AMD Users Report Hawaii GPU Acceleration Is Working   AMD   2014-07-27
Open-Source AMD Hawaii Support Should Now Be Working!   AMD   2014-07-25
AMD "Hawaii" Open-Source GPU Acceleration Still Not Working Right   AMD   2014-07-21
The Dirty List Of GPUs With Open-Source Drivers Gone Wildly Wrong   Hardware   2014-05-31
The 60+ GPUs For The Biggest-Ever Linux GPU Comparison   Hardware   2014-05-31
PathScale Is Hiring To Work On Open-Source AMD Drivers   Programming   2014-05-29
Features You Will Not Find In Mesa 10.2   Mesa   2014-05-27
Haiku OS Adds Support For Latest Radeon HD Graphics Cards   Operating Systems   2014-05-25
AMD's Hawaii Open-Source Support Still Remains Broken   AMD   2014-05-18
Newer AMD Radeon GPUs Have Had A Tough Time With Linux 3.15   Radeon   2014-05-13
AMD's Open-Source Hawaii GPU Support Still Isn't Working Right   AMD   2014-05-09
Trying Out Radeon R9 290 Graphics On Open-Source   Radeon   2014-04-16
AMD Releases The Radeon R9 295X   Radeon   2014-04-08
AMD Ends Up Releasing Catalyst 14.2 Beta For Linux   AMD   2014-02-25
AMD Press Talks Up Major Open-Source Linux Driver Features   AMD   2014-02-25
AMD's Mantle Launches, But No Linux Love Yet   AMD   2014-01-30
xf86-video-ati 7.3.0 Radeon X.Org Driver Released   Radeon   2014-01-24
AMD's New Catalyst Driver Is Available To All Linux Users   AMD   2014-01-09
The Linux 3.13 Kernel Has Many Improvements   Linux Kernel   2014-01-09
AMD's Radeon R9 270 Is Far From Perfect On Linux   Radeon   2014-01-08
Valve Ships An AMD Preview Driver For SteamOS   Valve   2014-01-08
AMD Catalyst 13.12 GPU Driver For Linux Released   AMD   2013-12-19
Linux 3.13, NVIDIA GPUs Won Over November   Phoronix   2013-11-30
iBuyPower Launching An AMD-Based Steam Machine   Valve   2013-11-26
Another Game Studio Backs AMD's Mantle API   Linux Gaming   2013-11-25
AMD Puts Out A New Catalyst Linux Graphics Driver   AMD   2013-11-22
In-Fighting Continues Over OpenACC In GCC   GNU   2013-11-21
NVIDIA GeForce 700 Series On Linux Run Excellent   NVIDIA   2013-11-20
RadeonSI Gallium3D CIK Gets 2D Tiling, MSAA   Radeon   2013-11-20
NVIDIA Rolls Out The K40 12GB GDDR5 GPU   NVIDIA   2013-11-18
Libdrm 2.4.48 Has New Hardware Support   Mesa   2013-11-17
13 Reasons Linux 3.13 Is Going To Be Very Exciting   Linux Kernel   2013-11-15
POVRay, ViennaCL, Parboil OpenCL, HPCC Testing   Phoronix   2013-11-15
The Major DRM Graphics Update Sent Into Linux 3.13   Linux Kernel   2013-11-15
A Lot Of New NVIDIA Linux Benchmarks Are Coming!   NVIDIA   2013-11-14
AMD Wants Mantle On Linux, OS X, Mobile Devices   AMD   2013-11-13
AMD Hawaii Code Published For X.Org DDX, Mesa   AMD   2013-11-13
AMD Radeon R9 290 Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux   Radeon   2013-11-13
AMD Lands Open-Source "Hawaii" GPU Driver Code   AMD   2013-11-10
AMD Radeon R9 290 Released At $399 Price Point   Radeon   2013-11-05
New Catalyst 13.11 Beta Supports The R9 290X   AMD   2013-10-25
Does The AMD Radeon R9 290X Work On Linux?   Radeon   2013-10-24
Catalyst 13.11 Beta Brings New GPU Support To Linux   AMD   2013-10-08
AMD Announces The Radeon R9 290X   Radeon   2013-09-25