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Mesa 19.2 Articles & Reviews

The Current RADV+ACO Mesa Driver Performance For February 2020   Display Drivers   2020-02-24
Intel's Gallium3D Driver Is Running Much Faster Than Their Current OpenGL Linux Driver With Mesa 19.3   Display Drivers   2019-09-15
Intel's New OpenGL Driver Is Looking Really Great With The Upcoming Mesa 19.2   Display Drivers   2019-08-21
Another Look At The Maturing AMD Radeon RX 5700 Series Linux Performance   Display Drivers   2019-08-05
Radeon RX 5700 / RX 5700 XT Linux Gaming Performance With AMDGPU 5.3 + Mesa 19.2-devel   Graphics Cards   2019-07-29
Benchmarking Valve's RADV+ACO Yields Fastest Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2019-07-08
Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Performance With Polaris/Vega/Vega20 vs. NVIDIA On Ubuntu 19.04   Display Drivers   2019-06-26
The Latest Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Radeon Performance Against NVIDIA With Mid-Range GPUs   Display Drivers   2019-06-21

Mesa 19.2 Linux & Open-Source News

RadeonSI Disables SDMA For Polaris To Fix Corruption Bugs   Radeon   2020-01-08
Mesa 19.3.1 Released With A Few Intel + Radeon Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-12-18
AMD's RadeonSI Driver Finally Enables OpenGL 4.6 But You Need To First Enable NIR   Radeon   2019-11-27
Mesa 19.2.6 Released Due To POWER Fallout   Mesa   2019-11-22
Mesa 19.2.5 Released With Intel Vulkan + RadeonSI Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-11-20
Mesa 19.2.4 Released As Emergency Update After 19.2.3 Broke All OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2019-11-14
Mesa 19.2.3 Released With Many Fixes While Waiting For Mesa 19.3 In A Few Weeks   Mesa   2019-11-06
Ubuntu 19.10 Is The First Time We've Seen (X)Wayland Gaming Performance Match X.Org   Ubuntu   2019-10-29
Mesa 19.2.2 Brings Fixes For Solaris/Illumos, Continued Fixes For Intel ANV + Radeon RADV   Mesa   2019-10-25
Mesa 19.1.8 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2019-10-22
Ubuntu 19.10 Doesn't Ship With AMD Navi / Radeon RX 5700 Support Working, But Easy To Enable   Ubuntu   2019-10-21
Ubuntu 19.10 Available For Download With Its GNOME 3.34 + Experimental ZFS Experience   Ubuntu   2019-10-17
Intel Now Aiming For Gallium3D OpenGL Default For Mesa 20.0   Intel   2019-10-16
Navi 14 AMDGPU Firmware Lands In The Linux-Firmware.Git Tree   Radeon   2019-10-08
AMD Announces Navi 14 Based Radeon RX 5500 Series   AMD   2019-10-07
Mesa 19.2 Released With Navi Support, Much Improved Intel Gallium3D   Mesa   2019-09-25
The Surge 2 Sees Same-Day Linux Support Via Steam Play, RADV Workaround Needed   Linux Gaming   2019-09-24
AMD Navi 10 Firmware Finally Lands In The Linux-Firmware Tree   Radeon   2019-09-23
Mesa 19.2-RC3 Released While Final Release Expected Around Month's End   Mesa   2019-09-12
Intel's Gallium3D Linux Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2019-09-11
Intel's Gallium3D Driver Gains Optimization For Helping With Java OpenGL Performance   Intel   2019-09-10
Intel Linux Graphics Stack Gets Another Speed Boost - Helping Civilization VI By ~18%   Intel   2019-09-06
Mesa Gets One Line Fix To Help With KDE KWin Crashing   KDE   2019-09-06
Mesa 19.2-RC2 Released Following Delay - Many Iris, RADV & RadeonSI Fixes   Mesa   2019-09-05
Intel Begins Setting Up Driver Mappings For Classic vs. Gallium3D OpenGL Linux Drivers   Intel   2019-08-29
Navi 14 Is Ready To Go On Mesa 19.3 Git & Back-Ported To Mesa 19.2   Mesa   2019-08-29
AMD To Land Support For Navi 14 Into The Upcoming Mesa 19.2 Driver Stack   Radeon   2019-08-27
Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver Sees ~30% Performance Boost For APUs   Mesa   2019-08-24
Intel Iris Gallium3D Is Close With SPIR-V Support For OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2019-08-24
Intel's OpenGL Linux Driver Now Has OpenGL 4.6 Support For Mesa 19.2   Intel   2019-08-21
Mesa 19.2-RC1 Released But Intel Still Looking To Add OpenGL 4.6 Support   Mesa   2019-08-20
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Renoir APU Support In Time For Mesa 19.2   Mesa   2019-08-20
Mesa 19.2's Feature Freeze / Release Candidate Process Beginning Tomorrow   Mesa   2019-08-19
AMD Posts Navi Display Stream Compression Support For Linux   Radeon   2019-08-19
AMD Renoir Lands In Mesa's RadeonSI - Further Pointing To Vega, Not Navi   Radeon   2019-08-14
Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Developers Discover 3~20% Boost For Current-Gen Hardware   Intel   2019-08-12
TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI   Mesa   2019-08-12
RADV Driver Plumbs Navi Support For Performance-Improving DCC On Storage Images   Mesa   2019-08-07
Etnaviv Gallium3D Picks Up A NIR Compiler   Mesa   2019-08-07
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Gets A 1 Line Patch To Bump The Performance By ~1%   Intel   2019-08-06
Mesa 19.1.4: Intel Vulkan Fixes For Older Generations, Max Payne 3 Issue Fixed For RADV   Mesa   2019-08-04
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support   Intel   2019-08-04
Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wave32 Support For More Shaders   Vulkan   2019-08-03
Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Navi Wave32 Support For Compute Shaders   Radeon   2019-07-31
How The RadeonSI Performance Has Evolved For Navi 10 Since Launch   Radeon   2019-07-30
RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets Wired For Compute-Only Arcturus To Handle Video Decode   Radeon   2019-07-30
RADV's Navi Support Gets Patches For Vulkan Transform Feedback   Mesa   2019-07-24
RADV Lands Binning Support For GFX10/Navi For Faster Vulkan Performance   Mesa   2019-07-23
Mesa 19.1.3 Led By Fixes For Intel & Radeon Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2019-07-23
Lima Gallium3D Gets A Reworked Scheduler   Mesa   2019-07-21
RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds Navi Wave32 Support   Radeon   2019-07-20
AMDGPU/AMDKFD Queue Up Early Linux 5.3 Fixes For Navi & More   Radeon   2019-07-19
Mesa 19.2 Is Just Six Patches Away From Seeing OpenGL 4.6 Support   Mesa   2019-07-17
The Massive DRM Pull Request With AMDGPU Navi Support Sent In For Linux 5.3   Linux Kernel   2019-07-15
RADV Picks Up Geometry Shader Support For Navi/GFX10   Radeon   2019-07-11
AMDGPU & RadeonSI Linux Drivers See More Navi Optimizations + Fixes   Radeon   2019-07-10
RADV Vulkan Driver Continues Further Refining Its Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" Support   Radeon   2019-07-09
LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Implementation Picks Up More GL4 Extensions   Mesa   2019-07-08
RADV Vulkan Driver Manages Launch-Day Support For AMD Navi 10/12/14 GPUs   AMD   2019-07-07
More RadeonSI Navi Improvements Are Pending   Mesa   2019-07-06
RADV Vulkan Driver Switches To The RTLD Linker   Radeon   2019-07-04
AMDVLK Support For Navi Might Be Slightly Delayed   Radeon   2019-07-04
Navi 10 Code Lands In Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI Ahead Of Radeon RX 5700 Series Launch   Radeon   2019-07-03
Libdrm 2.4.99 Released With Navi Support, AMDGPU Changes   Mesa   2019-07-03
AMD "GFX8" Hardware Now Has Expanded DCC Support With RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2019-07-02
Ubuntu Drama, Clear Linux Speed & WSL2 Sparked Lots Of Interest In June   Phoronix   2019-07-01
RadeonSI Getting Fixed Up To Expose 10-bit VP9 Decode   Radeon   2019-06-28
Gallium3D Panfrost Driver Can Now Handle Running The GNOME Shell Desktop   GNOME   2019-06-27
Radeon Navi Support Pending For RadeonSI OpenGL Driver With 47k Line Worth Of Changes   Radeon   2019-06-26
Mesa 19.0.7 Now Available As The Last Of The Series   Mesa   2019-06-25
Panfrost Gallium3D Picks Up Yet More Features Thanks To Collabora's Summer Internship   Mesa   2019-06-24
AMD Sends In Navi Support & Other Remaining AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.3   Radeon   2019-06-23
RadeonSI Gets Some Tidying Ahead Of Navi/GFX10 Support (Radeon RX 5700 Series)   Radeon   2019-06-20
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Continues Speeding Ahead For Open-Source Mali Graphics   Mesa   2019-06-18
AMD Wires Its New Runtime Linker Into RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2019-06-14
RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Fixes For Vega M Hardware   Radeon   2019-06-13
Mesa 19.2 Picks Up The Radeon R300~R500 Series On-Disk OpenGL Shader Cache   Mesa   2019-06-12
Mesa 19.1 Released With Experimental Intel Gallium3D, Other New GL/VLK Drivers Too   Mesa   2019-06-11
Google's New Graphics Driver Developer Flips On UBWC For Freedreno   Hardware   2019-06-11
R300 Gallium3D Driver Finally Wired Up For On-Disk Shader Cache   Radeon   2019-06-10
Panfrost Making Use Of The Gallium3D I/O Vectorization For Better Performance   Mesa   2019-06-09
Mesa 19.2's Virgl Sees Huge Performance Win Around Buffer Copy Transfers   Mesa   2019-06-08
Mesa 19.2 RADV Driver Now Fully Supports EXT_sample_locations For Possible AA Benefits   Mesa   2019-06-07
Mesa 19.2 Now Exposes The NVIDIA-Led EGL_EXT_platform_device Support   Mesa   2019-06-06
AMD Sends In 2nd Round Of AMDGPU Radeon Driver Updates For Linux 5.3 - No Navi Yet   Radeon   2019-06-05
ATI R300 Gallium3D Driver Seeing A Big Performance Fix After Being Regressed For Years   Radeon   2019-06-05
Mesa 19.2 R600 Gallium3D Can Advertise OpenGL 4.5 With Select GPUs   Mesa   2019-06-05
Mesa 19.2 Punts AMD Register Descriptions Into JSON   Radeon   2019-06-04
AMD Is Aiming For Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" Support In Linux 5.3 + Mesa 19.2   Radeon   2019-05-31
Intel Gallium3D Gets Another Performance Optimization Around IO Vectorization   Mesa   2019-05-28
OpenGL 4.6 / SPIR-V Support Might Be Inching Closer For Mesa Drivers   Mesa   2019-05-24
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Gets On-Disk Shader Cache Support   Intel   2019-05-22
RadeonSI Primitive Culling Lands In Mesa 19.2   Mesa   2019-05-20
Intel UHD Graphics 630 With Gallium3D Yields Roughly Radeon HD 5750 Linux Performance   Intel   2019-05-15
Working OpenCL Through Gallium3D Clover With LLVM To SPIR-V Conversion   Mesa   2019-05-13
Intel's Gallium3D Driver Will Now Try To Recover From GPU Hangs   Mesa   2019-05-12
Mesa 19.1 Has Been Branched, Mesa 19.2 Is In Development   Mesa   2019-05-07
Ubuntu 19.10 Is The "Eoan Ermine" Release   Ubuntu   2019-05-06
AMD Mesa Stack Getting Runtime Linker For Better LLVM Integration   Mesa   2019-05-03
More AMD Radeon "Navi" Code Continues Landing In LLVM For Its Compiler Backend   Radeon   2019-05-03
Ubuntu 19.10 Development Opens With Plans For GCC 9, Glibc 2.30   Ubuntu   2019-04-30
Intel Aiming For Their Gallium3D Driver To Be Viable By Mesa 19.2, Default By EOY 2019   Intel   2019-04-25
It Looks Like AMD Is About To Post The Open-Source Radeon "Navi" Driver Code   Radeon   2019-04-24
Mesa Driver Releases For 2019 Get Plotted Out From 19.0 To 19.3   Mesa   2019-01-08