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Radeon HD 2 Articles & Reviews

51 GPUs Tested, From The Radeon HD 2900XT To RX 580 & R9 Fury: Testing The 2017 Linux Driver Stack   Graphics Cards   2017-06-02
The OpenGL Speed & Perf-Per-Watt From The Radeon HD 2000/3000 Series Through The R9 Fury   Graphics Cards   2016-01-14
R600 Gallium3D Loses To AMD Catalyst Legacy Driver On Windows 8   Display Drivers   2013-07-26
Legacy Radeon Performance On Mesa 9.1 Gallium3D   Display Drivers   2013-02-19
Radeon Gallium3D Has Made Much Progress In Two Years   Display Drivers   2012-08-08
AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support   Display Drivers   2012-04-20
A Fresh Look At The AMD Radeon Gallium3D Performance   Display Drivers   2011-06-10
Open-Source ATI R600/700 Mesa 3D Performance   Display Drivers   2010-02-09
ATI R600/700 3D Support In Fedora 12   Display Drivers   2009-10-26
AMD R600/700 2D Performance: Open vs. Closed Drivers   Display Drivers   2009-09-30
AMD Releases R600/700 Programming Guide   Display Drivers   2009-05-07
AMD Dropping R300-R500 Support In Catalyst Driver   Display Drivers   2009-03-05
AMD Video BIOS Disassembler Released   Display Drivers   2009-01-08
AMD Radeon HD 3300 / 790GX   Graphics Cards   2008-10-07
ECS GF8200A Black & ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI   Motherboards   2008-07-07
NVIDIA GeForce 8200 IGP   Graphics Cards   2008-06-20
ASRock A780FullDisplayPort   Motherboards   2008-05-30
Overclocking The NVIDIA Quadro FX1700   Graphics Cards   2008-05-12
AMD Catalyst 8.4 Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2008-04-16
AMD Releases Microcode For All GPUs   Display Drivers   2008-03-19
ASUS Radeon HD 3850 & 3870 TOP   Graphics Cards   2007-12-16
Using HDMI With ATI Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2007-12-13
ATI: Linux vs. Windows Vista   Display Drivers   2007-10-30
The Progress Of The RadeonHD Driver   Display Drivers   2007-09-29
ATI HD 2900XT With Open-Source Driver   Graphics Cards   2007-09-18
Introducing The RadeonHD Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2007-09-17
AMD 8.41.7 Display Driver   Display Drivers   2007-09-12
NVIDIA: Got Specifications?   Display Drivers   2007-09-10
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 Radeon HD 2900XT On Linux   Graphics Cards   2007-09-05
AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview   Display Drivers   2007-09-05
ASUS Radeon HD 2600PRO Preview   Graphics Cards   2007-08-20
Sapphire HD 2900XT 512MB Preview   Graphics Cards   2007-08-11
AMD 8.39.4 Display Driver   Display Drivers   2007-07-19
AMD Radeon HD 2000 Series & Linux   Graphics Cards   2007-07-11
AMD Radeon HD 2400PRO/2600XT   Graphics Cards   2007-06-28
AMD Radeon HD 2900XT Preview   Graphics Cards   2007-05-14

Radeon HD 2 Linux & Open-Source News

The Old Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D Driver Drops Its TGSI Code Path   Radeon   2023-04-27
The Old Radeon "R600" Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Now Enables SPIR-V   Radeon   2023-01-02
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Switches To Modern NIR Backend By Default   Radeon   2022-09-23
Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2022-09-20
R600 Gallium3D Driver Receives NIR Backend Fixes For Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Series   Radeon   2022-08-21
Mesa 22.2-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA3 & Intel Alchemist Primed, Vulkan Additions   Mesa   2022-08-03
Mesa's Radeon R600g Driver Adds NIR Support For Pre-Evergreen GPUs   Mesa   2022-08-01
Rewritten R600g NIR Backend Merged For Mesa 22.2 - Improves Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series   Mesa   2022-07-07
Rewritten NIR Code For Old Radeon "R600" Linux Driver Improves Performance In 2022   Radeon   2022-06-22
Open-Source R600g Driver For Old AMD GPUs Is Seeing New Activity To Improve GPU Compute   Radeon   2022-04-27
R600 Gallium3D Driver For Old Radeon GPUs To See Rewritten NIR Backend   Radeon   2022-04-15
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
Radeon R600 Gallium3D NIR Backend Continues Advancing   Radeon   2020-07-20
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1   Mesa   2020-02-10
Mesa's Radeon R600 Gallium3D Driver Now Has NIR Support Under Review   Mesa   2019-12-30
Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Lands NIR Support Plus Radeon R600g NIR Support Is Forthcoming   Mesa   2019-11-28
Mesa 19.2 R600 Gallium3D Can Advertise OpenGL 4.5 With Select GPUs   Mesa   2019-06-05
Coreboot's Flashrom Moves On To Flashing AMD GPUs Up Through Polaris   Coreboot   2018-10-22
Coreboot's Flashrom Working On Radeon GPU Flashing Support   Coreboot   2018-10-17
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Driver Nearly At OpenGL 4.5, Remaining Bits Being Finished   Mesa   2018-01-24
R600 Gallium3D Picks Up Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension   Radeon   2017-11-21
R600 Gallium3D Shader Image Support Lands, Other R600g Patches Pending   Mesa   2017-11-17
OpenGL Atomic Counters Land For R600 Gallium3D   Radeon   2017-11-10
R600 Gallium3D Receiving Some New Improvements By David Airlie   Mesa   2017-11-03
Ryzen, NVIDIA & Unity 8 Abandonment Topped H1'2017   Phoronix   2017-07-03
Ryzen, Linux Laptops, Ethereum, & Graphics Drivers Marked Phoronix's 13th Birthday   Phoronix   2017-07-01
Day of Infamy Released For Linux Gamers   Linux Gaming   2017-03-23
Day of Infamy Officially Launching Later This Month, Official Linux Support   Linux Gaming   2017-03-10
AMD Planning To Enable GLAMOR By Default For R600 & Newer GPUs   Radeon   2016-11-21
Football Manager 2017 Released For Linux   Linux Gaming   2016-11-04
Rocket League Finally Released For Linux   Linux Gaming   2016-09-08
Linux Distribution Battles, Linux 4.5, & Graphics Drivers Were Hot This Month   Phoronix   2016-01-31
12 Years After Launch, The GeForce 6 Can Still Run On Modern Linux Distributions   NVIDIA   2016-01-17
2016 Has Been Off To A Great Start For Open-Source & Linux   Free Software   2016-01-17
Football Manager 2016 Released For SteamOS / Linux   Linux Gaming   2015-11-12
How Far The Radeon Gallium3D Driver Has Come In Five Years   Radeon   2015-07-23
The Top AMD, Intel & NVIDIA Linux News For 2014   Hardware   2014-12-30
The 60+ GPUs For The Biggest-Ever Linux GPU Comparison   Hardware   2014-05-31
R600 Gallium3D Lands Many OpenGL Fixes   AMD   2014-04-24
R600 Gallium3D Disables LLVM Back-End By Default   AMD   2014-04-16
NVIDIA Dropping Pre-Fermi GPUs From Their Mainline Linux Driver   NVIDIA   2014-03-12
Linux 3.14 To Make AMD R600/700 OpenGL GS Possible   Linux Kernel   2014-02-06
AMD R600 Gallium3D Driver Lands OpenGL 3.3 In Mesa   AMD   2014-02-04
R600g Geometry Shaders Come For R600/R700   AMD   2014-01-31
R600g AMD Evergreen Geometry Shaders Proposed   AMD   2014-01-30
How To Setup Radeon DPM On Ubuntu Linux   Radeon   2013-07-30
The Extraordinary DRM Pull Request For Linux 3.11   Linux Kernel   2013-07-09
Radeon In Linux 3.11 Is Fantastic With PM, Sea Islands   Radeon   2013-06-28
AMD Has Massive Radeon Patch Set - Power Management!   Radeon   2013-06-26
AMD R600 Gallium3D Optimizing Back-End Merged   AMD   2013-04-30
Compressed Textures, Tiling Merged For RadeonSI   Mesa   2013-04-19
Fedora 19 Readies AMD "RadeonSI" Driver   Fedora   2013-03-29
Nine Exciting Features Coming To Mesa 9.1   Mesa   2013-02-14
AMD's Catalyst Legacy Linux Driver Updated To 13.1   AMD   2013-01-21
R600 Gallium3D Getting Close On OpenGL 3.3 Support   AMD   2013-01-13
AMD R600g Now Does TBO, UBO & Advertises GLSL 1.40   AMD   2013-01-12
R600 Gallium3D Now Does Buffer Copies With CP DMA   AMD   2013-01-09
MSAA Anti-Aliasing Finally Comes To Radeon R300g   Radeon   2013-01-06
Radeon R600 Back-End Merged Into LLVM   Radeon   2012-12-13
AMD's A-Sync DMA Code Makes For Fast Performance   AMD   2012-12-12
AMD Releases New Radeon Code: A-Sync DMA Engines   Radeon   2012-12-11
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Enables 2D Color Tiling   Radeon   2012-11-01
R600g Driver Patch That Can 4x The Frame-Rate   Mesa   2012-10-31
Five Years With The Modern AMD Catalyst Linux Driver   AMD   2012-09-05
R600 Gallium3D Driver Still Missing Features   AMD   2012-08-31
OpenGL 3.0 Now Handled For All Of R600 Gallium3D   AMD   2012-08-30
Radeon Gallium3D Now Does MSAA On R600   Radeon   2012-08-27
AMD Releases New Catalyst Linux Legacy Driver   AMD   2012-07-05
Marek Works On OpenGL 4.0 Transform Feedback   Mesa   2012-07-05
AMD Catalyst 12.6 For Linux Disappoints   AMD   2012-06-29
Open-Source Radeon Tries Again For PCI-E 2.0   Radeon   2012-06-26
Radeon Gallium3D LLVM Now Uses VLIW Scheduler   Mesa   2012-06-21
R600 Gallium3D Expands On Stream-Out By Default   AMD   2012-06-19
An AMD Legacy Driver With X Server 1.12 Support   AMD   2012-06-05
AMD Linux Catalyst: Hardware Owners Screwed?   AMD   2012-05-31
AMD Admits It Has Linux Problems   AMD   2012-05-29
Linux Hardware, Software Trends Over One Year   Hardware   2012-04-23
AMD R600/R700 Gallium3D Confirms GLSL 1.30   AMD   2012-04-21
AMD Evergreen Gallium3D Officially Does GLSL 1.30   AMD   2012-04-20
xf86-video-ati 6.14.4 Has New Features   AMD   2012-03-29
OMAP, Radeon, Valley View Linux DRM Updates   Linux Kernel   2012-03-28
AMD R600 LLVM Back-End Called For Inclusion   AMD   2012-03-26
Radeon Gallium3D Hierarchical-Z Updated (R600)   Radeon   2012-02-08
Radeon R600 Tiling Patches Are Ready   Radeon   2012-02-04
R600 Gallium3D Can Now Do OpenGL 3.0, GLSL 1.30   Mesa   2012-01-29
In OpenCL Push, AMD Makes Progress With LLVM For Gallium3D   Mesa   2012-01-16
2D Color Tiling Patches Hit For Radeon R600+   Radeon   2012-01-12
It's Official: Mesa 8.0 With OpenGL 3.0   Mesa   2012-01-09
Holiday Gift: OpenGL Radeon Performance Goes Up   Mesa   2011-12-24
Radeon HD 7000 Series Will Bring New 3D Driver   Radeon   2011-12-08
Android Support Merged Into Mesa / Gallium3D   Mesa   2011-08-24
Running The Xorg State Tracker On R300 Gallium3D   AMD   2011-08-24
The Different Gallium3D Drivers Available   Mesa   2011-06-30
R600 Gallium3D Driver Is Now Built By Default   Mesa   2011-06-14
Radeon KMS Color Tiling Now On For R600+ ASICs   Radeon   2011-06-13
AMD R600 Gallium3D Driver Patch For AF   Mesa   2011-05-09
Using Nouveau With Gallium3D Video Decoding   Nouveau   2011-04-27
German RadeonHD Hacker To Start R600 Gallium3D VDPAU   Radeon   2011-04-26
How Old ATI GPUs Can Be Faster On Open Drivers   AMD   2011-02-13
ATI R300g / R600g Unify Their Vertex Buffer Manager   Mesa   2011-02-06
A New Open-Source AMD OverDrive Utility For Linux   AMD   2010-12-27
XvMC With iDCT Now Working On Gallium3D   Mesa   2010-11-21
A Peek Into The X.Org Stack For Ubuntu 11.04   Ubuntu   2010-10-26
Radeon Page-Flipping Patches Come About   Radeon   2010-10-26
Holy Crap! You Can Use XvMC With ATI Gallium3D!   AMD   2010-10-25
There May Still Be Hope For R600g Supporting XvMC, VDPAU   AMD   2010-10-22
New Screenshots Of Unigine's OilRush Game   Linux Gaming   2010-10-15
The ATI R600g Driver Gets Boosted By A New Design   AMD   2010-09-29
The RadeonHD Driver Would Be Three Today   Radeon   2010-09-17
ATI Evergreen 3D Code May Soon Go Into Gallium3D   AMD   2010-09-09
More Details On Unigine's OilRush Game   Linux Gaming   2010-09-04
A Linux Demo For Amnesia: The Dark Descent   Linux Gaming   2010-09-03
The ATI Evergreen Mesa Code Has Now Landed   AMD   2010-08-20
Progress On The ATI R600g Gallium3D Driver   AMD   2010-08-20
ATI Radeon R600 Mesa Classic Driver Can Do OpenGL 2.1   Radeon   2010-08-09
The ATI R600/700 DDX & Mesa Now Have Tiling In Place   AMD   2010-08-05
ATI R600g Gains Mip-Map, Face Culling Support   AMD   2010-07-30
The Gallium3D R600 Driver Now Has Texture Support   Mesa   2010-07-28
AMD Catalyst 10.7 For Linux Has Eyefinity Support   AMD   2010-07-26
Here's The R600 Gallium3D Driver Running Gears   Mesa   2010-07-23
The R600g Driver May Soon Be Working, But Lacks A Compiler   AMD   2010-07-23
ATI Gallium3D + Wine Is Bettered A Bit   Mesa   2010-07-21
The ATI Radeon R600/700 Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2010-07-17
Thermal Monitoring Comes To Newer Radeon DRM   Radeon   2010-06-01
Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D Driver Merged To Master   Radeon   2010-05-27
Voltage Tweaking Comes To R600+ GPUs On Linux   AMD   2010-05-27
Open ATI R600/700 Driver Gains Tiling Support   AMD   2010-05-26
Bringing The R600 Gallium3D Driver Up To Speed   AMD   2010-05-10
Whoops, ATI's Evergreen Will Bring A New Driver   AMD   2010-04-13
AMD's Position On Gallium3D Support   AMD   2010-04-13
Woah, AMD Releases OpenGL 4.0 Linux Support!   AMD   2010-03-25
More ATI Radeon KMS Power Management Fun   Radeon   2010-03-14
R600 Gallium3D Shader Compiler Milestone Hit   Mesa   2010-03-07
EXT4 Lets Us Down, There Goes Our R600/700 Mesa Tests   Linux Storage   2010-02-01
Open-Source ATI Evergreen Support Arrives   AMD   2010-02-01
ATI R600/R700 Gallium3D Winsys Published   AMD   2010-01-24
R600/700 Mesa Driver Picks Up Blit Support   Mesa   2010-01-16
R600 Open-Source Driver WIth GLSL, OpenGL 2.0   AMD   2009-12-19
AMD R600/700 DRM Interrupts Support Pushed   AMD   2009-11-30
ATI R300 Gallium3D DRI Support Is "Done"   Mesa   2009-11-09
Bringing HDMI To ATI Kernel Mode-Setting   AMD   2009-09-27
Compiz Running With Mesa On R600/700 GPUs   Mesa   2009-08-03
ATI R600/700 OSS 3D Driver Reaches Gears Milestone   AMD   2009-07-15
Open-Source ATI R600/700 3D Driver Almost Working   AMD   2009-07-03
AMD Releases Catalyst 9.6 For Linux   AMD   2009-06-15
ATI RS690 Gets New RadeonHD HDMI Audio Patch   Radeon   2009-05-13
Flashrom To Support Flashing ATI Graphics Cards   Hardware   2009-05-13
ATI R600/700 3D Acceleration In Mesa Next Week?   AMD   2009-04-09
AMD Releases R700 Instruction Set Architecture   AMD   2009-03-29