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AMDGPU vs. Radeon Kernel Driver Performance On Linux 5.0 For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Computers   2019-03-07
AMDGPU+RADV Linux Gaming On GCN 1.0/1.1, 25-Way Warhammer II GPU Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2018-11-24
AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM Driver Performance On Linux 4.15   Display Drivers   2017-12-21
AMDGPU vs. Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 Benchmarks With Linux 4.10   Display Drivers   2017-01-03
Catalyst vs. AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM On A R9 290: Experimental AMDGPU Can Be Faster   Display Drivers   2016-01-29

Sea Islands Linux & Open-Source News

RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds Sparse Texture Support For GFX9/Vega & Newer   Mesa   2021-12-30
AMD Radeon Graphics Driver "AMDGPU" Ported To DragonFlyBSD   Radeon   2021-11-03
Mageia 8 RC1 Brings AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1, NVIDIA GLVND, Linux 5.10 LTS   Operating Systems   2021-02-07
AMD Has Some Last Minute Updates For The AMDGPU Driver In Linux 5.11   Radeon   2020-12-10
AMD Sends In Green Sardine Support For Linux 5.10, Hawaii BACO Reset   Linux Kernel   2020-11-04
AMD Sends In More Radeon "Navi 2" Updates For Linux 5.10 Kernel   Radeon   2020-09-04
Defaulting Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs To Better Linux Driver Is Held Up By Analog Outputs   Radeon   2020-08-04
DC Display Support Continues To Be Worked On For Radeon GCN 1.0 With AMDGPU Driver   Radeon   2020-07-16
The Experimental GCN 1.0 GPU Support Might Be Dropped From AMDGPU Linux Driver   Radeon   2019-12-31
The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s   Radeon   2019-12-18
RADV's ACO Compiler Back-End Now Supported For Older AMD "Sea Islands" GPUs   Radeon   2019-12-07
AMD Sends In Another Batch Of Feature Changes For Linux 5.5 AMDGPU Driver Code   AMD   2019-10-26
AMD Linux Driver Bringing BACO Support To Older Sea Islands / Volcanic Islands GPUs   Radeon   2019-10-11
DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Radeon Graphics Code From The Linux 4.7 Kernel   BSD   2019-08-25
Stadia, Web Browsers, GNOME 3.32 & Jetson Nano Dominated Linux Interest In March   Phoronix   2019-04-01
Orbital: A PlayStation 4 Emulator That Is Emulating The PS4's AMD GPU Using Vulkan   Free Software   2019-03-19
AMD Submits Initial AMDGPU Graphics Driver Improvements Ahead Of Linux 5.1   Radeon   2019-01-25
Vega 10 & Newer Getting More Fine-Grained PowerPlay Controls On Linux   AMD   2019-01-21
FreeSync Support Lands In Linux 4.21 With Other DRM Updates In Christmas Day Merge   Linux Kernel   2018-12-26
AMD Squeezes In Some Final AMDGPU Changes To DRM-Next For Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-12-13
Coreboot's Flashrom Moves On To Flashing AMD GPUs Up Through Polaris   Coreboot   2018-10-22
The Biggest Features Of Linux 4.19: Intel/AMD, CoC, 802.11ax, EROFS, GPS & GASKET   Linux Kernel   2018-10-16
DRM Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 With New VKMS Driver, Intel Icelake Work   Linux Kernel   2018-08-15
The DRM Changes Coming With The Linux 4.19 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-07-25
Initial AMDGPU Driver Changes Submitted For Linux 4.19   Radeon   2018-06-21
GCN 1.1 On AMDGPU DRM Driver To Now Default To PowerPlay   Radeon   2018-06-03
RADV In Mesa 18.1 Git Receiving New Vulkan Extension Work   Radeon   2018-03-29
RADV Now Exposes Async Compute Support For Southern Islands   Radeon   2018-02-27
WattMan Support Coming For Radeon Polaris GPUs On Linux   Radeon   2018-02-08
GPU Voltage Control Support Coming To AMDGPU Driver   Radeon   2018-01-16
RADV Is Now Effectively Conformant For Vega GPUs With Vulkan 1.0   Vulkan   2017-12-29
The Many Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver Advancements Of 2017   Radeon   2017-11-30
Linux 4.15 Is A Huge Update For Both AMD CPU & Radeon GPU Owners   AMD   2017-11-18
AMDGPU DC Pull Request Submitted For Linux 4.15 Kernel - 132,395 Lines Of Code   Radeon   2017-11-17
DRM Updates Land For Linux 4.15; Torvalds: "There's Something Odd About DRM People"   Linux Kernel   2017-11-16
Feral Releases F1 2017 For Linux, More Details On The Vulkan Driver Requirements   Linux Gaming   2017-11-02
RADV Is Now Considered A Vulkan Conformant Driver   Radeon   2017-10-04
AMD Submits Initial AMDGPU DRM Updates Slated For Linux 4.15   AMD   2017-09-26
Early Work Bringing VCE1 Video Encode To AMDGPU DRM   Radeon   2017-09-08
Work-In-Progress Porting Of GCN 1.0/1.1 UVD To AMDGPU DRM Driver   Radeon   2017-09-03
RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Fixed Up For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Hardware   Radeon   2017-08-14
Several RADV Radeon Vulkan Fixes Land In Mesa Git   Mesa   2017-08-07
AMD Developers Discuss Better Switching Of Radeon/AMDGPU CIK Support   Radeon   2017-04-11
RadeonSI ARB_sparse_buffer Lands For Mesa 17.1   Mesa   2017-04-05
ARB_sparse_buffer Support Updated For RadeonSI   Mesa   2017-03-28
Ten Exciting Features Of The Linux 4.10 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2017-02-12
AMDGPU Gets More Power-Related Fixes In Linux 4.11   Radeon   2017-02-09
Details On The PS4's Radeon GPU With Linux Driver Modifications   Radeon   2016-12-28
RADV Vulkan Driver Patches To Support Compute Queues   Vulkan   2016-12-18
RADV Lands More Improvements & Other New Patches Pending   Radeon   2016-11-24
Mesa Fixes Random GPU Hangs On AMD Hawaii & Fiji GPUs   Mesa   2016-10-27
RadeonSI Gallium3D Re-Enables SDMA For Sea Islands, Carrizo   Radeon   2016-10-26
Here's An Ubuntu/Debian Kernel To Play With AMDGPU On GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Radeon   2016-10-06
AMDGPU SI Winsys Support, Other Radeon Changes Hit Mesa Git   Mesa   2016-08-26
RadeonSI Performance Improvement For DRI PRIME Offloading   Mesa   2016-08-18
Some Of The AMDGPU Changes Being Worked On For Linux 4.8   Radeon   2016-06-26
The AMDGPU Additions For Linux 4.7 Are Enormous   Radeon   2016-05-11
RadeonSI's New SDMA Texture Copy Code Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2016-05-10
Here Is My Linux 4.5-rc3 Kernel Spin With AMDGPU PowerPlay & CIK Enabled   Ubuntu   2016-02-08
Here Is A Linux 4.5-rc2 Kernel To Play With The New AMDGPU Functionality   Linux Kernel   2016-02-01
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
A Linux 4.5-rc1 Kernel With AMDGPU PowerPlay Enabled For Ubuntu Systems   Radeon   2016-01-25
You Can Help Bring Vulkan Support To Older AMD GCN GPUs   AMD   2016-01-15
AMD Releases Open-Source VCE 1.0 Support   AMD   2015-05-12
AMD Releases New "AMDGPU" Linux Kernel Driver & Mesa Support   Radeon   2015-04-20
AMD's GPU LLVM Backend Gains Support For Assembler & Inline Assembly   AMD   2015-04-08
Open-Source AMD Linux Developers Already Thinking About API Improvements   AMD   2014-10-09
The Slides Announcing The New "AMDGPU" Kernel Driver   Radeon   2014-10-08
AMD Publishes Open-Source Linux HSA Kernel Driver   AMD   2014-07-10
AMD Has A New Radeon DRM Performance Patch   Radeon   2014-05-02
Radeon Gallium3D Tiling Turned Back On For "CIK" GPUs   Radeon   2014-03-11
AMD VCE Encode Engine Code Moves Ahead For Linux 3.15   Linux Kernel   2014-02-18
AMD Mainlines Its VCE OpenMAX Support In Gallium3D   AMD   2014-02-13
AMD Publishes New Code For Open-Source VCE Video Encode   AMD   2014-02-11
AMD Open-Sources VCE Video Encode Engine Code   AMD   2014-02-04
The Big RadeonSI Performance Patch To Land In Linux 3.13   Radeon   2014-01-01
RadeonSI Performance Patch Sharply Improves Frame-Rates   Radeon   2013-12-23
Radeon DPM Is Now Working Well For New AMD GPUs   Radeon   2013-12-20
A Roadmap For FreeBSD Graphics Support   BSD   2013-12-05
LLVM Clang 3.4 Is On Track To Arrive This Month   LLVM   2013-12-02
RadeonSI Gallium3D CIK Gets 2D Tiling, MSAA   Radeon   2013-11-20
AMD Hawaii Code Published For X.Org DDX, Mesa   AMD   2013-11-13
AMD Lands Open-Source "Hawaii" GPU Driver Code   AMD   2013-11-10
Linux 3.12, Ubuntu Spooked Users This Month   Phoronix   2013-10-31
Sea Islands Improvements Come To AMD GPU LLVM Back-End   AMD   2013-10-29
Features Coming For The LLVM 3.4 Compiler Stack   LLVM   2013-10-27
AMD Releases New 3D/Compute GPU Documentation   AMD   2013-10-24
Sea Islands Gets AMD R600 LLVM Compute Support   AMD   2013-10-23
Mesa 9.2.2 Is Now Available   Mesa   2013-10-19
AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation   AMD   2013-10-01
Gallium3D OpenCL Is Starting To Show Progress   AMD   2013-09-26
Stream Out / Transform Feedback Now In RadeonSI   Radeon   2013-09-12
Recapping The Linux 3.11 Kernel Features   Linux Kernel   2013-08-31
Linux 3.12 To Support AMD "Berlin" HSA APU   AMD   2013-08-30
The Most Exciting Linux 3.11 Kernel Features   Linux Kernel   2013-08-20
AMD's Initial Radeon Driver Changes For Linux 3.12   Radeon   2013-08-13
AMD/ATI X.Org Driver Brings New GPU Support   AMD   2013-08-07
Haswell Perf Doesn't Change Much On Linux 3.11   Intel   2013-07-20
Some Of The New Features Coming For Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-07-13
The New & Best Features Of The Linux 3.11 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2013-07-12
The Extraordinary DRM Pull Request For Linux 3.11   Linux Kernel   2013-07-09
Testing Radeon DPM Using Sysfs/Debugfs   Radeon   2013-07-06
Nouveau Changes Pulled For Linux 3.11 Kernel   Nouveau   2013-07-01
June Was A Very Diverse Month For Linux Enthusiasts   Phoronix   2013-06-30
DRM Changes In Linux 3.11 Might Be The Biggest Ever   Linux Kernel   2013-06-30
AMD Sea Islands Support Comes To Radeon Gallium3D   Radeon   2013-06-28
Radeon In Linux 3.11 Is Fantastic With PM, Sea Islands   Radeon   2013-06-28
A New DRM Driver Is Coming To Linux 3.11 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2013-06-27
AMD Has Massive Radeon Patch Set - Power Management!   Radeon   2013-06-26
AMD Has Open-Source Driver For HD 8000 Series   AMD   2013-02-04
2013: A Good Year For Open-Source AMD?   AMD   2012-05-24