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Mesa 20.3 Articles & Reviews

Mesa 20.3 + Linux 5.9 Is In Great Shape Against AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2020-09-14
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Linux 5.9 + Mesa 20.3-devel Radeon Graphics Performance   Linux Gaming   2020-08-25

Mesa 20.3 Linux & Open-Source News

The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021   Mesa   2021-03-29
Mesa 21.0.1 Released, 20.3.5 Issued To Close Out The Older Series   Mesa   2021-03-24
Mesa 21.0 Aiming For Release Tomorrow With Windows DXGI Winsys, RDNA 2 Improvements   Mesa   2021-03-10
EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro   Arch Linux   2021-02-06
Solus 4.2 Released With Linux 5.10 Kernel, Other Updated Packages   Operating Systems   2021-02-03
Mesa 21.0-rc1 Released To Get The Quarterly Release Process Underway   Mesa   2021-01-13
Lavapipe Continues Advancing CPU-Based Vulkan - Now Supports Transform Feedback   Mesa   2020-12-21
Mesa 20.3.1 Released With Several RADV Fixes, Other Driver Updates   Mesa   2020-12-16
Raspberry Pi OpenGL Driver Seeing Faster Blit Support Come Mesa 21.0   Mesa   2020-12-10
Radeon RX 6900 XT Launches As Flagship Card With Open-Source Drivers But Very Limited Availability   Radeon   2020-12-08
The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10   Linux Kernel   2020-12-08
Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2020-12-03
Mesa 20.3 Is Near With Lavapipe Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV, Better AMD RDNA2 Support   Mesa   2020-11-30
Mesa 20.3-RC2 Released With ACO Fixes, More Intel Updates   Mesa   2020-11-19
Mesa 21.0 Lands More Last Minute Fixes For Radeon RX 6000 "Big Navi" GPUs   Mesa   2020-11-18
AMD Lands AV1 Decode For Radeon RX 6000 Series In Mesa   Radeon   2020-11-17
Mesa 20.3-RC1 Released With Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV Added   Mesa   2020-11-11
Mesa 21.0 Feature Development Opens For Release In Q1-2021   Mesa   2020-11-09
Mesa 20.2.2 Released With A Random Assortment Of Fixes   Mesa   2020-11-07
Mesa Moves Closer To Having OpenCL 3.0 Support In Clover Gallium3D   Mesa   2020-11-06
Intel Lands Vulkan Ray-Tracing Prep Work In Mesa 20.3   Mesa   2020-11-06
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Can Now Run The Zink OpenGL Translation Layer   Vulkan   2020-11-05
AMD Adds Secure Video Playback To Their Open-Source Linux Driver   Radeon   2020-11-04
Panfrost Gallium3D To Focus On Better Performance, OpenGL 3.1 Support   Mesa   2020-11-03
Turnip Vulkan Driver Picks Up Geometry Streams To Support DXVK's Direct3D 10.1   Linux Gaming   2020-11-03
RadeonSI Gallium3D Adds Support for EGL Protected Surfaces Using AMDGPU TMZ   AMD   2020-11-02
RadeonSI Lands Optimization For Uber Shaders   Mesa   2020-10-30
Mesa 20.3 Lands Rewritten AMD Zen L3 Cache Optimization   Mesa   2020-10-30
Mesa 20.3 Supports Intel Alder Lake Gen12 Graphics   Mesa   2020-10-28
Nouveau + LLVMpipe Drivers Enable OpenCL Image Support   Mesa   2020-10-21
Intel OpenGL/Vulkan Linux Drivers Strike Another Optimization For Tiger Lake   Intel   2020-10-21
NIR-To-TGSI Support Added To Mesa 20.3   Mesa   2020-10-20
Intel Lands A Hefty Tiger Lake Graphics Optimization   Intel   2020-10-19
Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows   Mesa   2020-10-19
Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan   Mesa   2020-10-17
NGG Appears To Be In Good Shape For RDNA 2 / RX 6000 Series   Radeon   2020-10-17
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Nearly At ~69% Of Intel's Native OpenGL Driver   Mesa   2020-10-16
Intel Finally Kills Gen10/Cannonlake-Specific Graphics Code From Their Linux Driver   Intel   2020-10-15
Mesa 20.2.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes   Mesa   2020-10-14
Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3   Mesa   2020-10-13
RADV ACO Lands NGG Geometry Shader Support   Mesa   2020-10-10
OpenCL 1.2 Support Merged For Mesa's Gallium3D Clover While OpenCL 3.0 Is Being Tackled   Mesa   2020-10-08
Intel Adds Vulkan Transform Feedback For Aging Haswell Graphics   Intel   2020-10-06
RADV's ACO Back-End Can Be A Massive Win For Vulkan Compute - Not Just Gaming   Radeon   2020-10-02
Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe   Vulkan   2020-10-01
Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September   Phoronix   2020-10-01
Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3   Phoronix   2020-09-29
Mali G72 Now Supported By Open-Source Panfrost Gallium3D Driver   Mesa   2020-09-29
Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support   Mesa   2020-09-29
More Vulkan NCNN Inference Benchmarks On AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Under Linux   Vulkan   2020-09-27
After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed   Mesa   2020-09-27
Mesa 20.3 Can Now Consume SPIR-V Binaries Generated By LLVM's libclc   Microsoft   2020-09-26
AMD Dimgrey Cavefish and VanGogh Support Lands In Radeon Linux OpenGL Driver   Radeon   2020-09-22
TURNIP Vulkan Driver Up And Running On Qualcomm's KGSL   Mesa   2020-09-22
Etnaviv Gallium3D Adds On-Disk Shader Cache Support   Mesa   2020-09-18
V3DV Developers Lay Out Plans For Upstreaming The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver In Mesa   Mesa   2020-09-17
Mesa Refactors Disk Cache - Working Towards Windows Support   Mesa   2020-09-11
Mesa 20.3 Picks Up New Capabilities To Help With Display Presentation Jitter, Stuttering   Mesa   2020-09-10
Mesa 20.3 Will Let You Fake Having Less Video Memory To Help In Debugging   Mesa   2020-09-09
RADV Lands "Big Page" Optimization For Navi 2   Radeon   2020-09-02
Intel mOS, Cachy, Mozilla Layoffs Were The Open-Source Buzz Of August   Phoronix   2020-09-01
Nouveau NVC0 Shader Disk Cache Lands For Speeding Up Game Load Times   Nouveau   2020-08-25
Older Radeon GPUs With RADV Vulkan Driver Now Have Trap Handler For Helping Catch Issues   Radeon   2020-08-24
Why VALLIUM Is Just For Software-Based Vulkan & Not GPU Hardware Drivers   Vulkan   2020-08-20
OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2   Mesa   2020-08-17
VALLIUM Merged Into Mesa 20.3 As Vulkan Front-End To Gallium3D   Mesa   2020-08-17
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel Support In Mesa 20.3   Intel   2020-08-12
R600 Gallium3D Now Has Compute Shaders Working With NIR   Radeon   2020-08-10
RADV ACO Back-End Begins Tackling Navi 2 / GFX10.3 Support   Radeon   2020-08-04