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SIGGRAPH Articles & Reviews

SIGGRAPH 2018: OpenCL-Next Taking Shape, Vulkan Continues Evolving   Software   2018-08-13
Khronos Debuts OpenGL ES 3.2 & New GL Extensions, But No Vulkan This Week   Software   2015-08-10
NVIDIA Delivers Beta OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2008-10-24
OpenGL 3.0, GLSL 1.30 Released   Display Drivers   2008-08-11

SIGGRAPH Linux & Open-Source News

Vulkan 1.3.263 Released With A New NVIDIA Extension   Vulkan   2023-09-02
DreamWorks' MoonRay Open-Source Release Is "Very Close"   Free Software   2023-02-19
Intel's oneAPI Support Appears To Be In Good Shape For Blender 3.3   Intel   2022-08-15
NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs   NVIDIA   2022-08-09
Intel Announces Arc Pro A-Series Professional GPUs   Intel   2022-08-08
Intel Releases Open-Source OpenPGL To Further Enhance Renderers   Intel   2022-08-08
Radeon RADV Lands Emulated ETC2 Support For Improving Android Support   Radeon   2021-12-14
Intel To Release OSPray Studio Scene Graph Application Soon As Part Of oneAPI   Intel   2020-08-24
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Timeline Semaphore Support   Intel   2019-11-12
Intel's Open-Source VP9 Video Encoder Just Scored A Massive ~3x Performance Boost   Intel   2019-09-08
Blender 2.81 To Feature Intel Open Image Denoise & Eevee Renderer Improvements   Free Software   2019-08-21
Vulkan Video Decoding Coming In H1'2020, Ray-Tracing Progressing   Standards   2019-08-13
NVIDIA Continues To Be Involved With Making Vulkan More Appropriate For Machine Learning   Vulkan   2019-08-13
Monado Open-Source OpenXR Implementation Seeing Driver Work On PSVR, OSVR, Razer Hydra   Hardware   2019-08-04
Intel Uses Its SIGGRAPH "CREATE" Event To Talk Up More Software Advancements   Intel   2019-07-30
Blender 2.80 Officially Released With Its Revamped UI, Eevee PBR Renderer   Free Software   2019-07-30
AMD's Linux Driver Gets Power Management In Order For Unreleased "Arcturus" GPU   Radeon   2019-07-29
Vulkan 1.1.117 Adds Line Rasterization - Helping Out CAD Applications & More   Vulkan   2019-07-29
Khronos Officially Releases OpenXR 1.0   Standards   2019-07-29
Binomial's Basis Universal To Super-Compress glTF Assets, WebGL Gets New Extensions   Standards   2019-07-26
NVIDIA Posts New OpenGL Extensions For Multi-GPU Rendering   NVIDIA   2019-07-26
Collabora Still Investing In "Zink" For OpenGL Over Vulkan, But Back To GL 2.1   Vulkan   2019-07-26
AMD Sends Out Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "Arcturus" As New Vega Derived GPU   Radeon   2019-07-15
AMD "GFX908" Additions Land In LLVM 9.0 For New Workstation GPU   Radeon   2019-07-12
OpenXR 0.90 Released For AR/VR Standard - Monado Is An Open-Source Implementation   Standards   2019-03-18
OpenCL 2.2-10 Released With Fixes   Standards   2019-02-19
Vulkan 1.1.100 Released Ahead Of Vulkan's Third Birthday   Vulkan   2019-02-11
The Most Popular Intel Linux News & Reviews Of 2018   Intel   2018-12-25
Intel Iris Gallium3D Forming As Their Future OpenGL Driver, Promising Early Results   Intel   2018-09-27
NVIDIA CUDA 10 Officially Released With Turing Support, nvJPEG, CUDA-Vulkan   NVIDIA   2018-09-20
Vulkan 1.1.84 Brings KHR Memory Model, ASTC Decode Mode Extensions   Vulkan   2018-09-09
Intel Has Quietly Been Working On A New Gallium3D Driver Being Called "Iris"   Intel   2018-08-17
Intel Begins Teasing Their Discrete Graphics Card   Intel   2018-08-15
CodeWeavers Joins The Khronos Group Along With IKEA   WINE   2018-08-15
NVIDIA CUDA 10 Adding nvJPEG, Turing Support   NVIDIA   2018-08-14
NVIDIA Announces Open-Source MDL SDK   NVIDIA   2018-08-14
NVIDIA Announces Turing-Based Quadro RTX GPUs As The "World's First Ray-Tracing GPU"   NVIDIA   2018-08-13
Vulkan 1.1.83 Released With Minor Documentation Updates For SIGGRAPH   Vulkan   2018-08-13
Radeon Pro WX 8200 Launches As "Best Workstation Graphics Performance Under $1,000"   Radeon   2018-08-13
Rust's Low-Level Graphics Abstraction Layer Is Showing A Lot Of Potential   Vulkan   2018-08-10
Vulkan 1.1.82 Released With VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints   Vulkan   2018-07-30
Vulkan 1.1.78 Released With Various Issues Resolved   Vulkan   2018-06-18
AMD May Have Accidentally Outed Vulkan 1.1   Radeon   2018-02-15
Khronos GDC Developer Day Set For 19 March   Vulkan   2018-01-30
Qualcomm Mentions "Vulkan2" & What I Would Suspect Of "Vulkan 2.0"   Vulkan   2017-12-12
Godot Game Engine Adds Support For glTF 2.0   Linux Gaming   2017-08-04
Epic Games Is Planning To Use Vulkan By Default For Unreal Engine On Linux   Vulkan   2017-08-03
Tune Into Khronos' SIGGRAPH 2017 Sessions About Vulkan, OpenGL 4.6   Standards   2017-08-02
Vulkan 1.0.57 Released With A Few New Extensions   Vulkan   2017-08-01
No Vulkan 1.1 Today, But There Is A New Initiative That Could Help macOS See Vulkan   Vulkan   2017-07-31
Radeon RX Vega 56 & 64 Launch: $399+, Available 14 August   Radeon   2017-07-31
Linux Driver Expectations For The Radeon RX Vega   Radeon   2017-07-30
NVIDIA+CMU Develop New Shading Language & Compiler Framework   NVIDIA   2017-07-24
Vulkan 1.0.56 Brings One New Extension, Fixes   Vulkan   2017-07-21
Vulkan 1.0.54 Released With Many New Extensions, Some KHX Promoted To Stable   Vulkan   2017-07-13
There Are Now More Than 1,200 Vulkan Projects On GitHub   Vulkan   2017-07-11
OpenGL/Vulkan SIGGRAPH Event Set For 2 August   Standards   2017-07-11
AMD Firms Up It's Releasing Radeon RX Vega At SIGGRAPH   AMD   2017-07-02
Vulkan 1.0.53 Released With New Extensions   Vulkan   2017-06-28
AMD EPYC Launching 20 June, Are You Interested?   AMD   2017-05-31
Unigine 2.5 Released With SSRTGI, 3D Spline System, Vector Roads API   Linux Gaming   2017-05-31
Radeon RX Vega Launch Postponed To SIGGRAPH   Radeon   2017-05-31
VK_KHX_multiview Lands In Mesa 17.2 Git For Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver   Vulkan   2017-05-03
Vulkan 1.0.47 Released   Vulkan   2017-04-08
Blender Making Progress On Its Realtime PBR Engine   Free Software   2017-03-22
Lots Of Vulkan To Be Had At GDC 2017   Vulkan   2017-01-18
Khronos' SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Presentation, Another VR Company Joins Them   Standards   2016-12-07
2016 SIGGRAPH Khronos Videos To Watch About OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL, glTF   Standards   2016-08-02
The OpenGL / Vulkan Slides From Khronos @ SIGGRAPH 2016   Standards   2016-07-28
Possible Items On The OpenCL Roadmap: Improved Vulkan Interop, Arbitrary Precision   Standards   2016-07-28
"Vulkan Next" Is In Active Development   Vulkan   2016-07-27
Khronos Livestream SIGGRAPH 2016 Is Now Happening   Standards   2016-07-27
Khronos Expands Focus On Safety Critical APIs   Standards   2016-07-27
NVIDIA "OpenGL 2016" Driver Leaks Out Early, Adds GLSL SPIR-V Extension   NVIDIA   2016-07-26
Radeon Pro SSG Packs 1TB Of SSD Storage On The Graphics Card   AMD   2016-07-26
AMD Introduces The Radeon Pro WX Series   Radeon   2016-07-25
NVIDIA Unveils The Quadro P6000, The "World's Fastest GPU"   NVIDIA   2016-07-25
SIGGRAPH 2016 Kicks Off Today: What Exciting News Awaits?   Standards   2016-07-24
Vulkan-Hpp Launches, Official C++ API For Vulkan   Vulkan   2016-07-23
Khronos Makes Progress On Its GL Transmission Format   Standards   2016-07-22
Vulkan 1.0.21 Released To Fix More Issues   Vulkan   2016-07-16
Two Weeks Until Likely Updates To OpenGL, Vulkan   Standards   2016-07-13
These 17 Patches Effectively Put Intel Mesa Done With OpenGL 4.4 & 4.5   Mesa   2016-07-07
Vulkan 1.0.19 Released: Still Up In The Air Whether Vulkan 1.1 Will Come This Month   Vulkan   2016-07-02
Vulkan 1.0.18 Adds Queue Operation Terminology   Vulkan   2016-06-25
New Vulkan Slides; Wondering If "OpenGL 4.6" Will Be Out This Summer   Standards   2016-06-07
Vulkan Continues In Their Weekly Cadence: Vulkan 1.0.15 Released   Vulkan   2016-05-28
Wine-Staging 1.9.6 Adds Initial Support For Vulkan Windows Programs On Linux   WINE   2016-03-21
Google Nexus Player Gets Early Vulkan Support, Imagination Has Open-Source Demo   Hardware   2016-02-17
The Official Vulkan Programming Guide Book Is Up For Pre-Order   Vulkan   2016-02-05
AMD's Vulkan Driver Will Only Work With The AMDGPU Kernel Driver   Radeon   2016-01-15
Vulkan Looks All But Confirmed For 2016 Launch   Vulkan   2015-12-18
It's Looking Like Vulkan Might Not Be Released This Year   Vulkan   2015-12-11
Khronos Posts Their 2015 SIGGRAPH Asia Slides   Standards   2015-11-10
Mesa's DRI3 Support For EGL Still Baking, The State Of DRI3 For X.Org Drivers   Mesa   2015-10-30
Imagination Tech Wants To Teach You About Vulkan   Vulkan   2015-10-16
Mir Continues Cleaning Up Their OpenGL Code, To Support Vulkan In Future   Ubuntu   2015-10-07
A Khronos Open-Source Talk Is Happening In An Hour   Standards   2015-09-22
Details On NVIDIA's Vulkan Driver, Sounds Like It Will Be A Same-Day Release   NVIDIA   2015-09-02
Khronos Publishes Their SIGGRAPH 2015 Slides   Standards   2015-08-31
Comments On The Unity Engine & Vulkan API Support   Linux Gaming   2015-08-15
What Vulkan Looks Like For A Hobbyist 3D Developer   Vulkan   2015-08-13
That's A Wrap: OpenGL / Vulkan BoF At SIGGRAPH   Vulkan   2015-08-13
WebGL 2.0 Will Hopefully Ship Before Year's End   Standards   2015-08-12
The Platforms Initially Supporting Vulkan   Vulkan   2015-08-12
Watch The Interesting Khronos BoFs Online From SIGGRAPH 2015   Standards   2015-08-12
Unity Is Working On Metal & DX12, But Not Vulkan Yet   Linux Gaming   2015-08-12
ASTC Texture Compression May Finally Supplant S3TC   Linux Gaming   2015-08-12
Exclusive: LunarXchange To Help Developers Get Started With Vulkan   Vulkan   2015-08-11
NVIDIA Releases Linux Graphics Debugger For OpenGL 4.2~4.5   NVIDIA   2015-08-11
Next Month We Might Hear About Unigine's New Linux Tech Demo   Linux Gaming   2015-08-08
You Can Get Vulkan Now... In Wearable Form   Vulkan   2015-08-07
There's One Week To Go Until SIGGRAPH 2015, Likely Vulkan News   Vulkan   2015-08-04
Canonical/Ubuntu Developers Start Looking At The Vulkan Graphics API   Vulkan   2015-07-18
An Interesting Interview About The Vulkan API   Vulkan   2015-07-08
Someone Is Already Working On SPIR-V For The Nouveau Driver   Nouveau   2015-07-06
AMD To Talk About Vulkan-DirectX 12 Similarities At GDC Europe   AMD   2015-06-19
AMD & Others Are Working On The LLVM SPIR-V Converter   LLVM   2015-05-25
ARM Talks Up Wayland For Mali   Wayland   2014-08-23
Khronos Publishes Its Slides About OpenGL-Next   Standards   2014-08-20
AMD Offers Mantle For OpenGL-Next, Pushes Mantle To Workstations   AMD   2014-08-14
OpenROAD: Showing Off All The Khronos APIs   Standards   2014-08-13
Advanced Linux Game Programming At GDC Europe   Linux Gaming   2014-08-13
Recapping The OpenGL 4.5 Improvements, NVIDIA Linux Changes   NVIDIA   2014-08-13
The Khronos Group Is Developing A New Graphics API From The Ground-Up   Standards   2014-08-11
SPIR 2.0 Is Out In Provisional Form For OpenCL 2.0   Standards   2014-08-11
NVIDIA Already Publishes An OpenGL 4.5 Linux Driver   NVIDIA   2014-08-11
OpenGL 4.5 Released With New Features   Standards   2014-08-11
Next Week We Should Hear All About OpenGL 5.0   Standards   2014-08-10
Drivers & Drama Dominated Linux Talk In July   Phoronix   2014-07-31
Next-Gen OpenGL To Be Announced Next Month   Standards   2014-07-15
Rich Geldreich Leaves Valves; Points To More "End Of OpenGL" Articles   Valve   2014-06-09
OpenVX 1.0: A Computer Vision Acceleration API   Standards   2013-11-18
Optimizing Performance For Intel OpenGL On Linux   Intel   2013-08-16
Early OpenCL 2.0 Specification Brings New Features   Standards   2013-07-22
What Excited Linux Enthusiasts In August: Apple, Valve   Valve   2012-08-31
Khronos: 20 Years Of OpenGL   Standards   2012-08-14
GDC Europe: Linux Gaming Announcements This Week?   Linux Gaming   2012-08-13
ETC2 Texture Compression Looks Good For OpenGL   Mesa   2012-08-12
A Look At OpenGL ES 3.0: Lots Of Good Stuff   Mesa   2012-08-12
Valve's L4D2 Linux Presentation Slides   Valve   2012-08-12
Mesa Release Shake-Up: Mesa 8.1 Is Now Mesa 9.0   Mesa   2012-08-10
How Valve Made L4D2 Faster On Linux Than Windows   Valve   2012-08-09
Intel Announces OpenGL ES 3.0 Plans For Mesa   Intel   2012-08-09
Here Is Valve's Source Engine Left 4 Dead 2 On Linux   Valve   2012-08-09
Celebrating 20 Years Of OpenGL At SIGGRAPH 2012   Standards   2012-08-08
Valve Announces Steam Goes Beyond Gaming   Valve   2012-08-08
OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL ES 3.0 Specifications Unveiled   Standards   2012-08-06
Khronos ASTC: Royalty-Free Next-Gen Texture Compression   Standards   2012-08-06
Showing Off The Linux-Friendly Unigine Renderer   Linux Gaming   2012-08-02