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R300 Articles & Reviews

Legacy Radeon Gallium3D Performance Drops On Mesa 9.2   Display Drivers   2013-09-13
Legacy Radeon Performance On Mesa 9.1 Gallium3D   Display Drivers   2013-02-19
Mesa Update Makes Radeon MSAA Much Faster   Display Drivers   2013-01-21
Radeon R300g Morphological Anti-Aliasing Performance   Display Drivers   2013-01-15
Radeon Gallium3D MSAA Performance (R300g)   Display Drivers   2013-01-10
Radeon HyperZ R300g Performance   Display Drivers   2012-12-04
R300 Gallium3D Performance Is Topping Out   Display Drivers   2012-08-13
LLVMpipe On Mesa 8.1 Performance   Display Drivers   2012-08-07
Intel Ivy Bridge Performance Drops In Mesa 8.1   Display Drivers   2012-07-30
R300 Gallium3D Driver In Mixed State For Mesa 8.1   Display Drivers   2012-07-27
AMD Radeon R600g Gallium3D: Mesa 8.0.4 vs. 8.1 Git   Display Drivers   2012-07-18
Radeon HyperZ In Open-Source On Older Hardware   Display Drivers   2012-02-20
Radeon Gallium3D: A Half-Decade Behind Catalyst?   Display Drivers   2012-01-19
The Grinch That Stole The Radeon Gallium3D Performance?   Display Drivers   2011-12-22
Mesa R500 Texture Semaphore Improvements   Display Drivers   2011-10-10
May 2011: Gallium3D vs. Classic Mesa vs. Catalyst   Display Drivers   2011-05-04
Benchmarking The New Radeon R300 Register Allocator   Display Drivers   2011-03-29
Further Testing Shows More Hope For ATI Gallium3D   Display Drivers   2011-01-19
Intel Windows vs. Linux GPU Performance Q4'2010   Display Drivers   2010-11-23
AMD's R300 Gallium3D Driver Is Looking Good For 2011   Display Drivers   2010-10-28
ATI R300 Mesa, Gallium3D Compared To Catalyst   Display Drivers   2010-07-14
Benchmarks Of The Latest Nouveau Gallium3D Driver   Display Drivers   2010-06-28
The Rate of ATI Gallium3D Changes Is Impressive   Display Drivers   2010-06-18
ATI R500 Gallium3D Performance In June 2010   Display Drivers   2010-06-07
ATI's Gallium3D Driver Is Still Playing Catch-Up   Display Drivers   2010-04-10
Radeon 3D Performance: Gallium3D vs. Classic Mesa   Display Drivers   2010-03-22
Testing Out AMD's DRI2 Driver Stack   Display Drivers   2009-05-13
AMD Catalyst 9.3 Brings OpenGL Composite Support   Display Drivers   2009-03-27
Power Management: ATI Catalyst vs. Open-Source ATI Driver   Display Drivers   2009-03-06
AMD Dropping R300-R500 Support In Catalyst Driver   Display Drivers   2009-03-05
AMD Releases R300 3D Register Guide   Display Drivers   2008-03-14
AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation   Display Drivers   2008-02-22
Radeon HD 2900XT Linux Game-Play   Graphics Cards   2007-09-08
ATI Radeon HD 2400/2600 On Linux   Graphics Cards   2007-09-07
AMD: Accelerating Open-Source Drivers?   Display Drivers   2007-09-05
ATI R300/400 Linux Performance   Display Drivers   2007-09-05
Open-Source ATI Driver Gets TV-Out   Display Drivers   2007-08-15
ATIpower: ATI Linux GPU Overclocking   Display Drivers   2007-04-02
X.Org 7.2: ATI Open v. Closed Drivers   Display Drivers   2007-02-06
Intel GMA 3000 Q965 Graphics   Graphics Cards   2006-10-21
ATI R300: Open v. Closed Drivers   Display Drivers   2006-10-06

R300 Linux & Open-Source News

X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs   X.Org   2024-04-11
Mesa 24.0.2 Brings Many Zink Fixes, More Intel Alder Lake N IDs   Mesa   2024-02-29
Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls   Mesa   2024-02-26
Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024   AMD   2024-01-30
The Open-Source ATI R300 Graphics Driver Is Still Being Improved Upon In 2024   Radeon   2024-01-04
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1: Polaris & Vega Support Dropped, Counter-Strike 2 Tuning   Radeon   2023-10-25
Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2023-09-28
Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes With Numerous New Vulkan Extensions   Mesa   2023-07-13
The Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Improvements For OpenGL, WineD3D Apps/Games   Mesa   2023-06-13
Mesa 22.3.2 Closes Out The Year With RADV RT Fixes, Raspberry Pi V3DV Fixes Too   Mesa   2022-12-31
22 Patches From AMD Further Along Mesa's Workstation Performance   Mesa   2022-12-16
Latest Round Of Optimizations Wrap Up For Old ATI R300 To R500 GPUs On Linux   Radeon   2022-08-29
R600 Gallium3D Driver Receives NIR Backend Fixes For Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Series   Radeon   2022-08-21
R300 Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Sees New Optimization For Two Decade Old ATI GPUs   Radeon   2022-08-21
Mesa 22.1-rc5 Released With Dozens Of Fixes For Zink, RADV & Intel Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2022-05-11
Mesa 22.0.2 Released With Many Intel / Radeon / Zink Fixes   Mesa   2022-04-22
Mesa Prepares To Drop Old GLSL-To-TGSI - Big Code Removal, Win For Performance & Fixes   Mesa   2022-04-20
Mesa's Virgl Preparing To Transition To Using NIR Over TGSI   Virtualization   2022-02-20
NVIDIA GeForce FX / 6 / 7 Series GPUs Get Notable Open-Source Driver Improvement In 2022   NVIDIA   2022-02-16
Mesa 21.3.3 Released With Fixes For Old ATI R300~R500 GPUs, RADV Fixes Too   Mesa   2021-12-29
The Most Exciting AMD Linux / Open-Source News Of 2021   AMD   2021-12-29
Radeon R300 Driver Lands NIR-To-TGSI Code, Old NVIDIA Driver Eyes It Too   Mesa   2021-12-10
Radeon Linux Driver Has A Huge Optimization Two Decades Later For ATI R300~R500 GPUs   Mesa   2021-12-09
Nearly Two Decades Later, ATI Radeon R300 Linux Driver Sees Occasional Improvement   Radeon   2021-10-01
AMD Drops Pre-Polaris GPU Support From Their Mainline Radeon Software Driver   Radeon   2021-06-22
AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead   Radeon   2021-03-24
Proposal Raised For Dropping Mesa's Classic OpenGL Drivers From Mainline This Year   Mesa   2021-03-22
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping A Bunch Of Old CPUs   Linux Kernel   2021-01-10
Red Hat's Tom Stellard Now Serving As LLVM Release Manager   LLVM   2020-10-25
Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To Build By Default   Mesa   2019-12-07
The Free Software Foundation Endorses First Router In 3 Years - But It's 10/100 + 802.11n WiFi   Hardware   2019-09-26
Mesa 19.1.1 Released - Led By RADV & Intel Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-06-25
Mesa 19.1.1 Is Coming Next Week With A Variety Of Fixes   Mesa   2019-06-22
Mesa 19.2 Picks Up The Radeon R300~R500 Series On-Disk OpenGL Shader Cache   Mesa   2019-06-12
R300 Gallium3D Driver Finally Wired Up For On-Disk Shader Cache   Radeon   2019-06-10
ATI R300 Gallium3D Driver Seeing A Big Performance Fix After Being Regressed For Years   Radeon   2019-06-05
AMD's Marek Olšák Is Dominating Mesa Open-Source GPU Driver Development This Year   Mesa   2018-09-12
Mesa 18.1.2 Released With Several RADV & Intel Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-06-15
xf86-video-ati 18.0 X.Org Driver Released   Radeon   2018-03-06
Intel's Linux & Open-Source Advancements In 2017   Intel   2017-12-27
Mesa Will Not Be Dropping Its Older GPU Drivers   Mesa   2017-05-31
Mesa Developers Discuss Branching Off Old Drivers, Including R300g & i915   Mesa   2017-05-26
The New Features So Far For The Linux 4.12 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2017-05-07
Intel RealSense SR300 Camera Support Added To Linux 4.12   Hardware   2017-05-05
AMDGPU LLVM Expert Has Left AMD, Now Working For Red Hat   AMD   2017-03-13
The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 12 Years   Phoronix   2016-06-04
RadeonSI Gallium3D Now Makes Use Of Potentially Performance-Boosting Re-Z   Radeon   2016-03-01
Performance-Boosting HyperZ Getting Fixed Up For Open-Source Radeon Linux Drivers   Radeon   2015-12-10
AMD_performance_monitor Finally Hits In RadeonSI   Radeon   2015-11-25
The Size Of The Different Open-Source Linux DRM/Mesa Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2015-10-31
AMD Creates Radeon Technologies Group To Focus On Graphics   Radeon   2015-09-09
R600 Gallium3D Gets A Little Bit Of Attention   Mesa   2015-09-03
AMD Radeon 300 Series On Linux - Catalyst: 0 vs. Open-Source: 1   Radeon   2015-07-06
Mesa 10.3.3 Has A Bunch Of Freedreno Fixes   Mesa   2014-11-08
AMD's R300 Gallium3D Driver Enables VDPAU Again   AMD   2014-10-28
Mesa 10.4 Might Re-Enable HyperZ For R600g/RadeonSI   Mesa   2014-10-23
Radeon 7.5 X.Org Driver Enables Hawaii, Adds New PCI IDs   Radeon   2014-10-02
Marek Lands Radeon Gallium3D HyperZ Improvements   Radeon   2014-09-01
After OpenGL 4.5, The Mesa OpenGL 4 Support Matrix   Mesa   2014-08-12
Radeon X.Org 7.4.0 Driver Brings More Tiling, R300/R500 GLAMOR   Radeon   2014-06-26
The Most Popular Linux Stories Of The Past 10 Years   Phoronix   2014-06-05
Marek Patches A "Mega Radeon" Driver   Radeon   2014-05-15
Intel's Mesa Driver Now Support ARB Buffer Storage   Mesa   2014-03-14
GLAMOR Can Now Be Enabled For AMD R300/R500 GPUs   AMD   2014-03-10
OpenGL 4.4 ARB_buffer_storage Comes To Radeon Gallium3D   Mesa   2014-02-25
Wine's Performance For Direct3D Gaming With Many Drivers   WINE   2014-02-10
XvMC Support Now Disabled By Default In Mesa   Mesa   2014-01-14
Radeon R300 Gallium3D Benchmarks On Mesa 10.1 Git   Mesa   2013-12-04
AMD "RadeonSI" Team Fortress 2 Is Now 75% Faster   Radeon   2013-11-29
Canonical Working On Mesa Code Again For Mir   Mesa   2013-11-21
AMD Releases New 3D/Compute GPU Documentation   AMD   2013-10-24
The State Of OpenGL 3.x, 4.x Extensions In Mesa   Mesa   2013-10-07
Marek's Baking Some RadeonSI Changes   Radeon   2013-08-29
AMD R300/R400 Radeon Gallium3D Finally Gets MSAA   Radeon   2013-08-27
The State Of OpenGL 3.x/4.x Features In Mesa 9.2   Mesa   2013-08-22
Marek Has New Set Of Radeon MSAA Patches   Radeon   2013-07-02
Mesa 9.1.4 Pulls In Bug Fixes, Mostly For Intel   Mesa   2013-07-01
Modern Intel Gallium3D Driver Proposed For Mainline   Mesa   2013-04-16
The State Of OpenGL 3/4 Support In Mesa/Gallium3D   Mesa   2013-03-22
Mesa/Gallium3D Gets Its First ARM SoC GPU Driver   Mesa   2013-03-12
Games Running WIth Open-Source Radeon Graphics   Radeon   2013-02-28
Mesa 9.1 Released, Brings Many Driver Improvements   Mesa   2013-02-23
Reasons Mesa 9.1 Is Still Disappointing For End-Users   Mesa   2013-02-14
Nine Exciting Features Coming To Mesa 9.1   Mesa   2013-02-14
Open-Source AMD Graphics Driver 7.1.0 Released   AMD   2013-01-30
Intel Driver Now Enables Floating-Point Textures   Intel   2013-01-21
Marek Makes MSAA R300 Performance Optimizations   AMD   2013-01-15
HyperZ, MSAA Get Some Fixes In R300 Gallium3D   AMD   2013-01-14
Support For The X.Org State Tracker In R300g Killed   X.Org   2013-01-14
R600 Gallium3D Getting Close On OpenGL 3.3 Support   AMD   2013-01-13
MSAA Anti-Aliasing Finally Comes To Radeon R300g   Radeon   2013-01-06
Radeon R600g HyperZ Support Improved In Mesa   Mesa   2012-12-23
The Most Popular Linux Stories Over Eight Years   Free Software   2012-12-21
AMD R600g HyperZ Support Is Now In Better Shape   AMD   2012-12-14
Marek Further Improves Radeon Mesa Performance   Radeon   2012-12-12
Marek Takes On MSAA Gallium3D Improvements   Mesa   2012-12-07
Radeon X1000 GPUs (R500) On Linux Finally Get HyperZ   Intel   2012-12-03
R300 Gallium3D HyperZ Is Finally In Good Shape   AMD   2012-12-02
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Enables 2D Color Tiling   Radeon   2012-11-01
Marek Does Major Rework Of Gallium3D Blitting   Mesa   2012-09-14
VA-API Support Set To Be Dropped From Mesa   Mesa   2012-09-07
Five Years With The Modern AMD Catalyst Linux Driver   AMD   2012-09-05
Canonical Comments On The Unity 2D Defenestration   Ubuntu   2012-08-17
How To Help Improve, Develop Mesa Drivers   Mesa   2012-08-07
OpenGL 4.3 Support Is A Ways Out In Mesa   Mesa   2012-08-06
Xi Graphics' Proprietary X Server, Drivers Have Faded Away   X.Org   2012-08-02
The OpenGL Support State For Mesa 8.1   Mesa   2012-07-12
Upcoming Linux Hardware Benchmarks For June   Phoronix   2012-06-09
AMD R600g Still Tackling Hierarchical Z   AMD   2012-06-05
OpenGL 3.1 Not Likely In Mesa Until 2013   Mesa   2012-05-04
AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series Gallium3D Merged   Radeon   2012-04-13
Radeon, Nouveau Power Usage On Ubuntu 12.04   Ubuntu   2012-04-08
AMD Finally Publishes New Gallium3D Driver (RadeonSI)   Radeon   2012-04-05
Intel Preparing GLSL 1.40 Support For Mesa   Intel   2012-03-09
Image Quality Comparison: Radeon Gallium3D vs. Catalyst   Radeon   2012-02-13
Mesa 8.0 Advances Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2012-02-09
Radeon R600 Tiling Patches Are Ready   Radeon   2012-02-04
Cleaning Up The R600 Gallium3D Driver   Mesa   2012-01-31
2D Color Tiling Patches Hit For Radeon R600+   Radeon   2012-01-12
Where Things Fall Short: Eight Shortcomings Of Mesa 8.0   Mesa   2012-01-11
Gallium3D For Haiku Is Being Addressed   Mesa   2012-01-08
Holiday Gift: OpenGL Radeon Performance Goes Up   Mesa   2011-12-24
Radeon HD 7000 Series Will Bring New 3D Driver   Radeon   2011-12-08
Radeon R100/R200 Mesa Driver Sees Attention   Radeon   2011-12-05
ATI X.Org Driver Sees Significant Update   AMD   2011-11-02
Farewell To The Classic R300/R600 Mesa Drivers   Mesa   2011-10-28
Killing DRM Graphics Cruft With Fire   Linux Kernel   2011-10-27
Classic Radeon Drivers Are On Their Deathbed   Radeon   2011-10-20
R300 Graphics Improvements For KDE's KWin   AMD   2011-10-16
R500 Texture Semaphores Merged To Master   AMD   2011-10-15
Mesa Compiler Stacks, A Hard Dependency On LLVM   AMD   2011-09-14
A Q&A Panel About Contributing To X.Org & Open-Source   X.Org   2011-09-05
The Sad State Of GPU Drivers For BSD, Solaris   BSD   2011-08-25
Running The Xorg State Tracker On R300 Gallium3D   AMD   2011-08-24
R600g Now Works With Xorg State Tracker   AMD   2011-08-23
Gallium3D Post-Processing, MLAA Nearly Ready   Mesa   2011-08-16
What Mesa Has Left With OpenGL 3, OpenGL 4   Mesa   2011-08-11
Gallium3D XvMC For Nouveau Working, Again   Nouveau   2011-07-30
R300 Gallium3D Is Now Separate From Classic Driver   AMD   2011-07-27
Mesa Gallium3D Pipe-Video Has Landed   Mesa   2011-07-13
Gallium3D Pipe-Video To Be Merged To Mesa Master   Mesa   2011-07-11
Mesa's OpenGL 3.0 TODO List Is Becoming Smaller   Mesa   2011-06-30
The Different Gallium3D Drivers Available   Mesa   2011-06-30
R600 Gallium3D Driver Is Now Built By Default   Mesa   2011-06-14
Using Nouveau With Gallium3D Video Decoding   Nouveau   2011-04-27
German RadeonHD Hacker To Start R600 Gallium3D VDPAU   Radeon   2011-04-26
The New R300 Register Allocator Is Still Being Developed   Mesa   2011-04-20
Super! Patented Mesa Floating-Point Is Merged!   Mesa   2011-04-15
An Open-Source MMORPG Using The Unigine Engine   Linux Gaming   2011-04-10
Mesa 7.10.2 Stable Released   Mesa   2011-04-06