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HD 7000 Articles & Reviews

Valve's ACO Helps Put New Life Into Radeon GCN 1.0 GPUs With ~9% Better Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2020-01-30
AMD's RadeonSI Driver Sped Up A Lot This Summer   Display Drivers   2014-08-22
RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Improving, But Still Long Shot From Catalyst   Display Drivers   2014-01-22
The Linux 3.13 Kernel Is A Must-Have For AMD RadeonSI Users   Display Drivers   2014-01-18
Radeon Gallium3D Improvements Compared To Legacy Catalyst   Display Drivers   2013-11-07
AMD RadeonSI GLAMOR 2D Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2013-11-04
RadeonSI Color Tiling Brings OpenGL Performance Boost   Display Drivers   2013-11-03
11-Way AMD Radeon GPU Comparison On Linux 3.12, Mesa 9.3   Display Drivers   2013-09-23
AMD RadeonSI Graphics Driver Still Troublesome On Linux   Display Drivers   2013-09-17
Open-Source RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. AMD Catalyst On Linux   Display Drivers   2013-07-05
AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Performance Has A Long Way To Go   Display Drivers   2013-06-28
AMD Radeon R600 GPU LLVM 3.3 Back-End Testing   Display Drivers   2013-05-14
The Evolution Of NVIDIA's Kepler Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2012-07-17
AMD's Catalyst Evolution For The Radeon HD 7000 Series   Display Drivers   2012-07-09
AMD Radeon HD 7950: Southern Islands Isn't Yet A Penguin Holiday   Graphics Cards   2012-03-12

HD 7000 Linux & Open-Source News

LACT 0.5.3 Released For Managing AMD Graphics Cards Under Linux   Radeon   2024-03-04
AMD Making It More Clear When Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver Is Being Used   Radeon   2023-10-24
Counter-Strike 2 Now Available With An Initial Linux Build   Valve   2023-09-27
Mesa "Terakan" Driver Aims To Provide Vulkan Support For Old Radeon HD 6000 Series   Radeon   2023-05-19
RADV Remains Competitive To AMD's Radeon Vulkan Windows Driver, Linux OpenGL Dominates   Radeon   2022-07-05
Rewritten NIR Code For Old Radeon "R600" Linux Driver Improves Performance In 2022   Radeon   2022-06-22
GhostBSD 22.01.12 Released With Automatic Detection For Old AMD GPUs   BSD   2022-01-17
Better AMD Radeon VCE Video Encode Performance Coming To Linux   Radeon   2021-12-30
Vulkan Video Support Progressing For Open-Source Intel, AMD Radeon Hardware   Vulkan   2021-11-15
RadeonSI Lands Yet Another Round Of Optimizations That Further Reduce CPU Overhead   Mesa   2021-10-29
The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10   Linux Kernel   2020-12-08
RADV Lands AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Fix For DOOM Eternal On Linux Under Steam Play   Radeon   2020-03-25
Valve's ACO Shader Compiler Back-End For Radeon Vulkan Is Now In Good Shape For GCN 1.0   Radeon   2020-01-23
RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs   Mesa   2019-12-10
Blender Developers Find Old Linux Drivers Are Better Maintained Than Windows   Free Software   2019-05-01
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Driver Nearly At OpenGL 4.5, Remaining Bits Being Finished   Mesa   2018-01-24
Marek Baking A "Huge Cleanup" For RadeonSI Gallium3D   AMD   2017-11-28
Getting Lucky With An AMD GCN Graphics Card For Just $15 USD   Hardware   2016-12-13
DRM Driver Changes Sent In For Linux 4.9, Sadly No Changes For Nouveau   Hardware   2016-10-11
Here's An Ubuntu/Debian Kernel To Play With AMDGPU On GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Radeon   2016-10-06
Southern Islands Support Will Come To AMDGPU On Linux 4.9   AMD   2016-09-16
AMDGPU Southern Islands Support Added To Mesa's DRM Library   Mesa   2016-09-05
GCN 1.0 / Southern Islands On AMDGPU Takes Another Step Forward   Radeon   2016-08-30
Some Of The AMDGPU Changes Being Worked On For Linux 4.8   Radeon   2016-06-26
AMD Unleashes Initial AMDGPU Driver Support For GCN 1.0 / Southern Islands GPUs   Radeon   2016-05-13
RadeonSI Quietly Landed A Shader Cache As A Last Feature For Mesa 11.2   Radeon   2016-02-23
Some Fresh Radeon EXA/GLAMOR 2D Acceleration Benchmarks   Radeon   2016-02-11
You Can Help Bring Vulkan Support To Older AMD GCN GPUs   AMD   2016-01-15
AMD's Vulkan Driver Will Only Work With The AMDGPU Kernel Driver   Radeon   2016-01-15
The Impact Of Switching To Linux 4.3 + Mesa-11.1/LLVM-3.8 On Ubuntu 15.10   AMD   2015-10-20
RadeonSI Now Supports Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension   Radeon   2015-09-19
R600 Gallium3D Gets A Little Bit Of Attention   Mesa   2015-09-03
OpenGL 4.1 Support Now Enabled In Mesa Git For AMD RadeonSI   Radeon   2015-07-30
Radeon Gallium3D Tackles A Bit More, OpenGL 4.1 Patches Pending   Mesa   2015-07-28
How Far The Radeon Gallium3D Driver Has Come In Five Years   Radeon   2015-07-23
RadeonSI Now Supports Tessellation In Mesa Git   Mesa   2015-07-22
RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets New OpenGL 4 Bits   Radeon   2015-06-27
Marek Posts Mesa Tessellation Support For RadeonSI Gallium3D   Mesa   2015-06-17
RadeonSI Gallium3D Enabled In Android Builds, VC4 Looks To Be Added   Mesa   2015-06-09
RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver To Be Enabled For Android   Mesa   2015-05-15
AMD Releases New "AMDGPU" Linux Kernel Driver & Mesa Support   Radeon   2015-04-20
BioShock Infinite Now Available For Linux, Demands Binary Graphics Drivers   Linux Gaming   2015-03-17
A Load Of RadeonSI Commits To Kick Off Monday Morning   Mesa   2015-03-16
More AMD RadeonSI Improvements Land In Mesa Git   Radeon   2015-02-04
Radeon DRM Changes For The Linux 3.20 Kernel   Radeon   2015-01-22
More Patches Published For AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver   Mesa   2015-01-05
Significant Performance Improvements For RadeonSI LLVM With New Patches   Radeon   2015-01-01
The Top Linux Graphics Articles Of 2014: Testing Lots Of GPUs   Hardware   2014-12-31
Better Fan Control Support Coming To The Open-Source Radeon Driver   Radeon   2014-11-19
R600g Driver Patched For OpenGL 4.0 Indirect Draw Support   AMD   2014-11-09
MIAOW: An Open-Source GPU Design Based On AMD's Southern Islands   Hardware   2014-10-29
X.Org Server 1.17 RC1 Released, Exciting For GLAMOR & Modesetting   X.Org   2014-10-29
GLAMOR Is Making Linux 2D Performance More Glamorous   X.Org   2014-10-10
Radeon 2D Performance On Fedora 21: EXA vs. GLAMOR   Fedora   2014-09-28
AMD Releases OpenCL 2.0 Catalyst Linux Driver   AMD   2014-09-25
AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Sees Some Improvements   Radeon   2014-09-20
Nouveau X.Org Driver Released With DRI3+Present, Maxwell, GLAMOR   Nouveau   2014-09-01
Ubuntu 14.10's Lack Of X.Org Server 1.16 Gets Blamed On AMD   AMD   2014-08-31
AMD's R600 GPU LLVM Back-End To Be Renamed   AMD   2014-08-04
Nouveau X.Org Driver Adds Maxwell & GLAMOR Acceleration Support   Nouveau   2014-06-19
GLAMOR Support Enabled Within Debian Experimental   Debian   2014-06-18
The New Features To The Linux 3.16 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2014-06-15
RadeonSI Moves A Bit Closer To GLSL 4.00 (OpenGL 4.0)   Mesa   2014-06-07
Newer AMD Radeon GPUs Have Had A Tough Time With Linux 3.15   Radeon   2014-05-13
RadeonSI Starts Beating Catalyst In Some Linux Tests   Radeon   2014-05-09
AMD Has A New Radeon DRM Performance Patch   Radeon   2014-05-02
R600 Gallium3D Disables LLVM Back-End By Default   AMD   2014-04-16
Fedora Rawhide Users Can Now Chew On RadeonSI GL 3.3   Fedora   2014-03-20
GLAMOR Core Rendering Code Gets Rewritten   X.Org   2014-03-19
RadeonSI Gets Fixed Up For XWayland With WLGLAMOR   Wayland   2014-03-18
Radeon X.Org Driver Can Now Build Against The New GLAMOR   Radeon   2014-03-17
AMD Radeon Northern Islands: EXA vs. GLAMOR   Radeon   2014-03-14
GLAMOR Patch Bomb Can Boost Some Operations By 700~800%   X.Org   2014-03-13
Many R600/RadeonSI Gallium3D Changes Land   Mesa   2014-03-11
GLAMOR Can Now Be Enabled For AMD R300/R500 GPUs   AMD   2014-03-10
Fast Color Clears Come To AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2014-03-07
GLAMOR Continues Advancing Greatly, Getting Faster   X.Org   2014-03-07
AMD Press Talks Up Major Open-Source Linux Driver Features   AMD   2014-02-25
AMD VCE Encode Engine Code Moves Ahead For Linux 3.15   Linux Kernel   2014-02-18
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
Open-Source AMD UVD Now Works For RadeonSI   Radeon   2014-01-30
OpenGL 3.3 Support Lands For RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2014-01-29
GLAMOR-EGL 0.6 Has X-Video & DRI3   X.Org   2014-01-24
OpenGL 3.3 Support Comes To RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2014-01-24
RadeonSI GLAMOR 2D Performance vs. Catalyst   Radeon   2014-01-18
Fedora Rawhide Is Good For RadeonSI Users   Fedora   2014-01-17
Lots Of X.Org GLAMOR Improvements Planned   X.Org   2014-01-12
AMD RadeonSI Driver 2D Performance Is Getting Better   Radeon   2014-01-10
The Big RadeonSI Performance Patch To Land In Linux 3.13   Radeon   2014-01-01
GLAMOR Will Likely End Up In The X.Org Server   X.Org   2013-12-31
Intel Releases A Boatload Of Haswell Documentation   Intel   2013-12-30
RadeonSI Performance Patch Sharply Improves Frame-Rates   Radeon   2013-12-23
A Roadmap For FreeBSD Graphics Support   BSD   2013-12-05
RadeonSI HyperZ Support Patches Made Available   Radeon   2013-12-04
RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets Layered Rendering   Mesa   2013-12-03
Mesa DRM Library Update Fixes Critical RadeonSI Bug   Radeon   2013-12-03
LLVM Clang 3.4 Is On Track To Arrive This Month   LLVM   2013-12-02
AMD "RadeonSI" Team Fortress 2 Is Now 75% Faster   Radeon   2013-11-29
Mesa 10.0 Delivers Many Exciting New Features   Mesa   2013-11-27
Future Work On The AMD GPU LLVM Back-End   AMD   2013-11-15
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
Xorg State Tracker Gets Stripped From Mesa   Mesa   2013-11-07
3-Way RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Benchmarks   Radeon   2013-11-05
RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets UBO/TBO Support, OpenGL 3.3   Mesa   2013-11-04
Linux 3.13 To Enable Radeon DPM, HDMI Audio   Radeon   2013-11-02
AMD Driver To Enabling RadeonSI Tiling By Default   Radeon   2013-11-01
What Do You Wish Was In Mesa 10.0?   Mesa   2013-10-27
Features To Be Found In Mesa 10.0   Mesa   2013-10-26
More AMD Radeon R9 270X LInux OpenGL Benchmarks   Radeon   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
GLAMOR'ized Radeon Driver Shows Hope Over EXA   Radeon   2013-10-03
MSAA Support Lands For R600 LLVM Back-End   Mesa   2013-10-02
Intel Hardware & Linux 3.12 Dominated September   Phoronix   2013-09-30
Radeon Driver Now Supports X-Video GLAMOR   Radeon   2013-09-29
AMD's Mantle Graphics API For Linux?   AMD   2013-09-27
Gallium3D OpenCL Is Starting To Show Progress   AMD   2013-09-26
GLAMOR Acceleration Makes It Into Ubuntu 13.10   Free Software   2013-09-19
Radeon Driver Now Enables GLAMOR By Default   Radeon   2013-09-16
Stream Out / Transform Feedback Now In RadeonSI   Radeon   2013-09-12
RadeonSI / GLAMOR Support Still M.I.A. From Ubuntu 13.10   Radeon   2013-09-12
Open-Source Linux Driver Support For 4K Monitors   Hardware   2013-09-08
AMD "Berlin" APU Graphics Come To Linux User-Space   AMD   2013-09-07
Transform Feedback, OpenGL 3.0 Ready For RadeonSI   Radeon   2013-09-03
Linux 3.12 To Support AMD "Berlin" HSA APU   AMD   2013-08-30
Marek's Baking Some RadeonSI Changes   Radeon   2013-08-29
The State Of OpenGL 3.x/4.x Features In Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-08-22
Why Mesa 9.2 Doesn't Work For All Linux Users   Mesa   2013-08-21
Features Still Being Sought By Open-Source AMD Users   AMD   2013-08-14
Audio Support Comes Closer For Newer Radeon GPUs   Radeon   2013-08-14
RadeonSI Gallium3D Receives MSAA Support   Radeon   2013-08-09
Radeon DPM Power Management Gets Fixed Up Again   Radeon   2013-08-08
AMD/ATI X.Org Driver Brings New GPU Support   AMD   2013-08-07
Video Support Still Brewing For GLAMOR Acceleration   X.Org   2013-07-16
Some Of The New Features Coming For Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-07-13
Double Precision Support For RadeonSI Driver   Radeon   2013-07-10
AMD Radeon DRM Gets More Early DPM Fixes   Radeon   2013-07-08
Radeon DRM: Dynamic Power Management Updates   Radeon   2013-07-05
AMD Catalyst vs. NVIDIA OpenCL Performance   Hardware   2013-07-01
AMD Southern Islands vs. NVIDIA Fermi/Kepler On Gallium3D   Hardware   2013-06-29
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
AMD HD 7000 "RadeonSI" Runs Well With Fedora 19   Radeon   2013-06-27
AMD Has Massive Radeon Patch Set - Power Management!   Radeon   2013-06-26
X.Org Has Some Interesting Summer GSoC Projects   X.Org   2013-05-30
RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables GLSL 1.30 Support   Radeon   2013-05-28
AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Begins Simple CL Demos   Radeon   2013-05-24
X.Org, Mir Plans Are Made Up For Ubuntu 13.10   X.Org   2013-05-14