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OpenGL 4 Articles & Reviews

Mesa 20.0 Is Imminent With New Intel OpenGL Default, Intel + RADV Vulkan 1.2, OpenGL 4.6 For RadeonSI   Display Drivers   2020-02-19
RadeonSI NIR Benchmarks Show Great Progress With Mesa 20.0   Display Drivers   2019-12-06
Running The RadeonSI NIR Back-End With Mesa 19.1 Git   Display Drivers   2019-02-10
Nouveau Linux 4.14 + Mesa 17.4-dev vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   2017-11-05
OpenGL 4.6 Released With Vulkan/SPIR-V Ingestion, Parallel Shader Compiles & Finally AF   Software   2017-07-31
A Look At The Huge Performance Boosts With Nouveau Mesa 17.0-devel On Maxwell   Display Drivers   2017-01-15
Mesa 13.0 Released With Intel OpenGL 4.5, RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2016-11-01
Mesa 12.0 Released With OpenGL 4.3 Support, Intel Vulkan & Many Other Features   Display Drivers   2016-07-08
Latest AMDGPU-PRO Ubuntu Linux Performance vs. NVIDIA, Including The GTX 1080   Graphics Cards   2016-06-09
Intel Broadwell Graphics Are Much Faster With Mesa 11.3   Display Drivers   2016-05-18
The Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Continued Evolving In 2015   Display Drivers   2015-12-28
Proprietary vs. Linux Git, Mesa 11.2-devel, DRI3 For R600g/RadeonSI   Display Drivers   2015-12-19
With R600g Now Supporting OpenGL 4.1, See How The Open-Source Performance Compares To AMD Catalyst   Display Drivers   2015-12-17
Open-Source Mesa Drivers Now Supporting OpenGL 4.0+   Display Drivers   2015-07-23
22-Way AMD+NVIDIA Graphics Card Tests With Metro Redux On Steam For Linux   Linux Gaming   2015-01-13
AMD Catalyst 14.6 Does Slightly Better With APITest OpenGL Tests   Display Drivers   2014-07-30
NVIDIA Slaughters AMD Catalyst On Linux In OpenGL 4.x Micro-Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2014-06-15
AMD Catalyst 14.4 Brings Few Linux Performance Improvements   Display Drivers   2014-04-23
Intel Linux Driver Almost Neck-And-Neck With Windows 8.1   Operating Systems   2013-11-28
Ubuntu 13.10 Can Outperform OS X 10.9 On Intel OpenGL   Operating Systems   2013-07-18
AMD FirePro V8800 2GB   Graphics Cards   2010-04-12

OpenGL 4 Linux & Open-Source News

Mesa 24.0.1 Released With Various Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2024-02-15
OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver   Apple   2024-02-14
Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-01-31
Mesa 24.0-rc2 Released With This Quarter's Release Looking Good   Mesa   2024-01-17
Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features   Mesa   2024-01-11
Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023   Microsoft   2024-01-03
Microsoft Looking To Add Windows Media Foundation Transforms "MFTs" To Mesa   Microsoft   2023-11-21
Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12   Mesa   2023-11-19
Microsoft Achieves OpenGL 4.5 Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa   Mesa   2023-11-15
Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound   Microsoft   2023-11-14
Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D Modeling Software   Free Software   2023-11-14
Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.3 Implemented Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa   Mesa   2023-11-08
Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple Silicon Hardware   Mesa   2023-11-07
Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant   Apple   2023-08-22
Imagination GPUs With PVR Vulkan + Zink Working Well For OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2023-07-06
Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series Graphics Get OpenGL 4.6 On Open-Source Driver   Mesa   2023-06-02
Mesa 23.2 Virgl Lands Support For OpenGL 4.6 Inside Virtual Machines   Virtualization   2023-05-27
The Old Radeon "R600" Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Now Enables SPIR-V   Radeon   2023-01-02
Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver Support - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0   Apple   2022-12-07
Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics   Mesa   2022-11-30
Freedreno Gallium3D Now Allows OpenGL 4.5 For Adreno 600 Series GPUs   Mesa   2022-11-02
Open-Source NVIDIA Outlook Brighter Due To GSP Firmware, But Major Challenges Remain   Nouveau   2022-09-13
Mesa Preparing Software Fallback For S3TC Texture Compression   Mesa   2022-09-05
Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year's End   Mesa   2022-08-22
Turnip Vulkan Driver Now Works With Zink For OpenGL 4.6, Approaching Vulkan 1.3   Mesa   2022-07-26
Mesa 22.1.1 Released With Many Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-06-01
Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver   Mesa   2022-05-18
Mesa 22.1-rc5 Released With Dozens Of Fixes For Zink, RADV & Intel Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2022-05-11
Mesa 22.1-rc3 Released With Backports For Intel Raptor Lake P, Zink/Kopper On Windows   Mesa   2022-04-27
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Making Progress On Windows, X-Plane Looking To Use It   Mesa   2022-04-20
Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen   Mesa   2022-04-14
Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source Intel & AMD Driver Improvements   Mesa   2022-03-09
SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0   Proprietary Software   2022-03-03
VMware Enabling VMWGFX 3D Support For AArch64   Virtualization   2022-03-03
Intel "Crocus" Driver For Old iGPUs Bumps OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support   Intel   2022-02-09
Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Driver Now Allows OpenGL 4.2   Mesa   2022-02-04
Mesa's "Dozen" Close To Providing Vulkan Over Direct3D 12   Microsoft   2022-02-03
Mesa 22.0-rc1 Released With Many Radeon & Intel Linux GPU Driver Features, Vulkan 1.3   Mesa   2022-02-02
Microsoft's Direct3D 12 Code For Mesa Now Supports OpenGL Tessellation Functionality   Microsoft   2022-01-26
Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan Now Offers Broader OpenGL Coverage Than RadeonSI, Intel   Mesa   2022-01-20
VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Lands OpenGL 4.3 Support In Mesa 22.0   Mesa   2022-01-19
Microsoft Lands D3D12 Compute Support In Mesa 22.0   Microsoft   2022-01-11
Linux 5.17 GPU Updates: Raptor Lake, ADL-P Stable, Raspberry Pi 4K@60, AMD Seamless Boot   Linux Kernel   2022-01-07
Zink Working On Sparse Textures, Other Improvements To Kick Off 2022   Mesa   2022-01-05
Mesa 22.0 Zink Lands macOS Build Fix For OpenGL On Vulkan Via MoltenVK On Metal   Mesa   2021-12-29
Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Gallium3D Code Adds Support For OpenGL SSBOs   Microsoft   2021-12-28
Latest Linux 5.17 Graphics Drivers: "Every Single Patchset In This PR Is Awesome"   Linux Kernel   2021-12-16
Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink   Mesa   2021-11-17
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Can Finally Render glxgears With Great Speed   Mesa   2021-11-12
Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes   Mesa   2021-11-04
Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Inches Closer To OpenGL 4.6 Conformance, More Games Working   Linux Gaming   2021-10-29
Vendors Including NVIDIA Talk Up New OpenCL Extensions For Vulkan Interop, NN Inference   Standards   2021-10-19
Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling   Mesa   2021-10-13
Microsoft's "CLOn12" Mesa Code Adds SPIR/SPIR-V Support   Mesa   2021-09-23
Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan   Mesa   2021-08-31
Zink Now Supports OpenGL Compatibility Contexts - Allowing More Games/Apps To Work   Linux Gaming   2021-08-18
Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support   Mesa   2021-08-17
LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported   Mesa   2021-07-21
Zink Now Supports OpenGL ES 3.2 Over Vulkan   Mesa   2021-07-09
Mesa's Exciting Milestones So Far In 2021 From Zink To Great Intel/AMD Open-Source Work   Mesa   2021-06-27
Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2021-05-05
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Correctly Rendering... Glxgears   Mesa   2021-04-27
Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features   Mesa   2021-04-14
The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021   Mesa   2021-03-29
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Still Has ~200 Patches To Land, More Performance Work   Mesa   2021-03-19
Mesa 21.0 Released With Numerous RADV Improvements, New Vulkan Extensions, Many Fixes   Mesa   2021-03-11
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Flips On OpenGL 4.5 For NIR Backend   Radeon   2021-03-03
With OpenGL 4.6 Achieved, Zink Working CTS Fixes, Substantial Performance Gains   Mesa   2021-02-19
Zink With Mesa 21.1 Now Advertises OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2021-02-16
Zink Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 Over Vulkan With Mesa 21.1   Mesa   2021-02-11
Mesa's LLVMpipe Flips On ARB_gl_spirv, Help Sought For Lavapipe Windows Port   Mesa   2021-02-11
Zink On Mesa 21.1-devel Now Achieves OpenGL 4.3 Over Vulkan   Mesa   2021-02-10
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Works Atop NVIDIA's Linux Driver   Mesa   2021-02-03
Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Now Supports OpenGL 4.2 With Mesa 21.1   Mesa   2021-01-21
Zink With Mesa 21.0 Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1   Mesa   2021-01-05
The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020   NVIDIA   2020-12-30
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Lands Tessellation Shader Support In Mesa 21.0   Mesa   2020-12-23
Classic OSMesa Retires In Mesa 21.0 As The Worst Of The Software Rendering Paths   Mesa   2020-12-11
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Development Now Being Done On RADV With Navi GPU   Radeon   2020-11-28
Valve Now Funding Blumenkrantz - Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan To Continue   Mesa   2020-11-23
Mesa 21.0 Feature Development Opens For Release In Q1-2021   Mesa   2020-11-09
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Hitting ~95% Speed Of Native OpenGL Driver Performance   Mesa   2020-11-06
Zink Seeing macOS Support For OpenGL Over Vulkan Then MoltenVK On Top Of Metal   Vulkan   2020-11-02
LLVMpipe Is Now Officially Conformant With OpenGL 4.5   Mesa   2020-10-30
Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan   Mesa   2020-10-17
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Nearly At ~69% Of Intel's Native OpenGL Driver   Mesa   2020-10-16
Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support   Mesa   2020-09-29
After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed   Mesa   2020-09-27
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan With Unigine Heaven Seeing Improved Performance   Vulkan   2020-09-25
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Seeing Some 50~100% FPS Gains   Mesa   2020-09-19
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Driver - Performance Is Turning Out Better Than Expected   Vulkan   2020-09-08
Mesa 20.2 Aiming For Release Next Week As Big Advancement For Open-Source GPU Drivers   Mesa   2020-09-03
Mesa 20.2 Should Be Released In About Two Weeks - LLVMpipe OpenGL 4.5 Enabled   Mesa   2020-08-28
Experimental Zink Patches Get OpenGL 4.6 Running Atop Vulkan   Vulkan   2020-08-24
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
LLVMpipe Has Patches Bringing It To OpenGL 4.5 Support   Mesa   2020-08-17
Mesa 20.2-RC2 Released With Many Fixes For RadeonSI + RADV Drivers   Mesa   2020-08-12
Mesa 20.2 Development Ends After Many New Features Land   Mesa   2020-08-06
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2020-07-22
LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs   Mesa   2020-07-06
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0   Mesa   2020-07-02
LLVMpipe Gains Support For On-Disk Shader Cache   Mesa   2020-06-10
SVGA Gallium3D Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1 Support   Mesa   2020-06-05
Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support   Mesa   2020-05-06
Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Updates Enable Tiger Lake By Default, OLED Backlight Support   Linux Kernel   2020-04-01
Some Of The Features To Look Forward To With Linux 5.7   Linux Kernel   2020-03-27
Microsoft + Collabora Working To Map OpenGL/OpenCL Over DirectX 12   Microsoft   2020-03-24
Intel Working On OpenGL 4.x Support For Their OpenSWR Software Rasterizer In Mesa   Intel   2020-03-24
VMware Plumbing OpenGL 4.x Support For The VMWGFX Graphics Stack   Virtualization   2020-03-23
Mesa 20.1 Sees Big Optimizations To Its Soft FP64 Implementation   Mesa   2020-03-19
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1   Mesa   2020-02-10
Mesa 20.0-RC2 Brings Many Intel Vulkan + OpenGL Gallium3D Driver Fixes   Mesa   2020-02-07
Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving   Nouveau   2020-02-01
Mesa 20.0-rc1 Released With Intel Gallium3D Default, OpenGL 4.6 for RadeonSI, Vulkan 1.2   Mesa   2020-01-30
Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support   Intel   2020-01-24
Nsight Graphics 2020.1 Released With Profiling For Vulkan+OpenGL Interop   NVIDIA   2020-01-24
Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL   Intel   2020-01-24
Mesa 20.0 Feature Development Is Ending Next Week   Mesa   2020-01-23
AMD Drops TGSI Support From Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver   Radeon   2020-01-07
Zink Is Moving Closer To OpenGL 3.0 Support Over Vulkan   Mesa   2020-01-04
Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code   Mesa   2020-01-03
Gallium3D's Software Rasterizers Are Close To Having OpenGL Tessellation Support   Mesa   2019-12-30
Intel Gallium3D Driver Performance Is Looking Good With The Core i9 9900KS   Intel   2019-12-26
The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s   Radeon   2019-12-18
Mesa 20.0-devel Intel Gallium3D Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good For Ice Lake   Intel   2019-12-14
Mesa 19.3 Released With Big Updates For Intel's Open-Source Drivers, Valve ACO Option   Mesa   2019-12-12
Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code   Intel   2019-12-11
The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of This Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-11
RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs   Mesa   2019-12-10
Khronos + W3C Collaborating On SPIR-V Potentially Being The Shading Language For The Web   Desktop   2019-11-28
AMD's RadeonSI Driver Finally Enables OpenGL 4.6 But You Need To First Enable NIR   Radeon   2019-11-27
Intel's Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Achieves OpenGL 4.6 Conformance   Intel   2019-11-21
Mesa 19.3-RC1 Released With OpenGL 4.6 For Intel, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2019-10-30
Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2   Standards   2019-10-22
RLSL Allows Running A Subset Of Rust On Vulkan/SPIR-V Enabled GPUs   Vulkan   2019-10-21
AMD Lands Greater Direct State Access Support Within Mesa   Mesa   2019-10-20
Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3   Mesa   2019-10-18
Mesa 19.2 Released With Navi Support, Much Improved Intel Gallium3D   Mesa   2019-09-25
Intel's Gallium3D Linux Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2019-09-11
Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support   Mesa   2019-09-04
Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions   Mesa   2019-08-27
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
Mesa 19.2's Feature Freeze / Release Candidate Process Beginning Tomorrow   Mesa   2019-08-19
TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI   Mesa   2019-08-12
Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.2-11 While Still Waiting For OpenCL-Next   Standards   2019-08-07
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support   Intel   2019-08-04
Mesa 19.2 Is Just Six Patches Away From Seeing OpenGL 4.6 Support   Mesa   2019-07-17