Vulkan is a new graphics API in development by the Khronos Group to succeed OpenGL. Vulkan will be supported by all major graphics vendors along with the SPIR-V intermediate representation.

Vulkan Articles & Reviews

Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2023-08-11
RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel   Display Drivers   2023-06-06
AMDVLK vs. Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance On Linux   Display Drivers   2023-06-02
Intel Arc Graphics Show Good Potential For Linux Workstation OpenGL Performance   Graphics Cards   2023-03-24
The Current Intel Arc Graphics Linux Gaming Performance On Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.1-dev   Linux Gaming   2023-03-20
Radeon Gaming/Graphics Performance: Windows 11 vs. Linux GPU Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2022-12-29
Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Performance Ahead Of Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0   Display Drivers   2022-11-30
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Benchmarks Are Very Competitive To Radeon OpenGL Driver   Display Drivers   2022-08-22
Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Continues Outperforming AMDVLK For RDNA2 Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2022-06-28
Total War: WARHAMMER III Linux Performance Across 24 NVIDIA / AMD GPUs   Linux Gaming   2022-06-21
Upgrading Ubuntu 22.04's Kernel & Mesa For Better AMD RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2022-06-01
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Looking Quite Good & Shining With Mesa 22.1   Display Drivers   2022-05-06
Vulkan 1.3 Released With Dynamic Rendering In Core, New Roadmap Guidance For Modern GPUs   Display Drivers   2022-01-25
HITMAN 3 Runs Well On Linux With Steam Play - Open-Source Radeon Performance Especially Good   Linux Gaming   2022-01-24
AMD Radeon Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Performance: 2020 vs. 2021   Display Drivers   2022-01-07
Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Holds A Narrowing Lead Over AMDVLK With Ubuntu 21.10 On Wayland   Display Drivers   2021-12-30
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive   Linux Gaming   2021-12-15
Zink Is Ending 2021 In Fantastic Shape For OpenGL Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-11-30
Intel Tiger Lake Performance Looking Even Better With Ubuntu 21.10   Operating Systems   2021-10-04
Zink Mesa 21.3-dev Benchmarks - Increasingly Capable Of Running OpenGL Games Atop Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-08-23
AMD RDNA2 Vulkan: RADV vs. RADV+NGGC vs. AMDVLK vs. PRO Driver Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2021-08-17
GeForce RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Linux   Display Drivers   2021-08-13
Radeon RX 6600/6700/6800 XT: RADV vs. PRO Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-08-11
Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Performance For July 2021   Display Drivers   2021-07-23
Linux Gaming Performance With Radeon Vulkan NGG Culling   Display Drivers   2021-07-16
Left 4 Dead 2 Vulkan Performance With Radeon Graphics On Linux   Linux Gaming   2021-06-23
GravityMark OpenGL/Vulkan Performance For NVIDIA RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series   Display Drivers   2021-06-18
NVIDIA Resizable BAR Performance - A Big Boost For Some Linux Games   Display Drivers   2021-06-17
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - Windows vs. Linux GPU Compute Performance   Display Drivers   2021-05-10
Initial Radeon vs. GeForce Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux   Display Drivers   2021-04-20
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series OpenCL / CUDA / OptiX Compute + Rendering Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2021-04-15
Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2021-04-12
Open-Source Radeon Driver Performance Against NVIDIA Linux Gaming For March 2021   Display Drivers   2021-03-11
Updated Portal 2 Vulkan Rendering Code Yielding Great Radeon Results   Linux Gaming   2021-03-02
OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance For Portal 2 With Radeon Linux Graphics   Linux Gaming   2021-02-20
RADV+ACO Look To Your Help For Improving The Vulkan Driver & Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2021-02-09
Mesa 21.0 Has Many New Features Especially For Radeon Open-Source Graphics   Display Drivers   2021-02-04
Radeon RX 6800 Series Linux Performance Nearly Three Months After Launch   Graphics Cards   2021-02-02
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance As Of January 2021   Display Drivers   2021-01-22
Mesa 21.0-devel RADV vs. AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-01-13
A Preliminary Look At Radeon RX 6800 XT Windows Performance vs. Open-Source Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2020-12-10
Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan   Graphics Cards   2020-10-23
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Vulkan Neural Network Performance With NCNN   Display Drivers   2020-09-25
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
Radeon RADV+ACO Vulkan Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 20.2   Display Drivers   2020-07-13
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance On Mesa 20.1 Looking Good With RADV+ACO   Display Drivers   2020-05-04
Radeon Software 20.10 vs. Upstream Linux AMD Radeon OpenGL / Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2020-04-24
RADV+ACO Outperforming AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Drivers For X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator   Display Drivers   2020-04-15
X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator With Vulkan Performing Very Well On Linux - NVIDIA/AMD OpenGL vs. Vulkan Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2020-04-08
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension   Display Drivers   2020-03-17
Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2020-03-16
Basemark GPU 1.2 Brings Linux Support - Wins For NVIDIA, Woes For Mesa   Display Drivers   2020-03-09
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
Radeon RX 5600 XT With New vBIOS Offering Better Linux Performance Following Fix   Graphics Cards   2020-01-24
Vulkan 1.2 Arrives With An Eye On Greater Performance, Better Compatibility With Other 3D APIs On Top   Display Drivers   2020-01-15
How The Radeon RX 5700 XT Navi Linux Performance Has Evolved Since Launch   Display Drivers   2019-12-30
The Performance Advancements Of The Radeon Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Over 2019   Display Drivers   2019-12-22
Mesa 20.0's RADV + ACO Vulkan Driver Now Consistently Beating AMD's AMDVLK Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2019-12-19
Mesa 19.3 Is Introducing A Lot Of Open-Source OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Improvements   Display Drivers   2019-12-10
RADV's ACO Back-End Is Helping Radeon Navi Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2019-11-22
23-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Shadow of the Tomb Raider On Linux   Linux Gaming   2019-11-18
Zink Benchmarks - Mesa OpenGL Running Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2019-11-17
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux Performance On The Dell Ice Lake Laptop   Operating Systems   2019-11-10
Intel Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake Linux Performance Benchmarks   Processors   2019-10-22
Windows 10 vs. Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Performance With Intel Icelake Iris Plus Graphics   Display Drivers   2019-10-15
Radeon RADV "ACO" Performance On Mesa 19.3 Looking Good   Display Drivers   2019-10-05
NVIDIA RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER Linux Gaming Performance - 26 GPUs Benchmarked   Graphics Cards   2019-09-26
Intel Core i9 9900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-08-29
Benchmarking Valve's RADV+ACO Yields Fastest Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2019-07-08
The Latest Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Radeon Performance Against NVIDIA With Mid-Range GPUs   Display Drivers   2019-06-21
AMDVLK Still Has Some Performance Advantages Over Mesa's Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver, But It's A Good Fight   Display Drivers   2019-05-30
Mesa 19.1's New Features From The Intel Gallium3D Driver To New Drivers & Vulkan Optimizations   Software   2019-05-28
Intel's Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Seeing Minor Performance Gains With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-26
GeForce GTX 650 vs. GTX 1650 Performance For Linux Gaming, Performance-Per-Watt   Graphics Cards   2019-05-15
Radeon RX 560/570/580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060/1650/1660 Linux Gaming Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-05-06
LG's 4K FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync Display For Just $219 USD   Computers   2019-05-01
AMDVLK vs. RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance For Linux Gaming On Ubuntu 19.04   Display Drivers   2019-04-11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Linux Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2019-03-20
AMDGPU vs. Radeon Kernel Driver Performance On Linux 5.0 For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Computers   2019-03-07
A Final Look At The OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance For Talos Principle   Linux Gaming   2019-02-26
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Linux Gaming Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2019-02-25
AMD Radeon VII Linux Benchmarks - Powerful Open-Source Graphics For Compute & Gaming   Graphics Cards   2019-02-07
Radeon ROCm 2.0 OpenCL Benchmarks With Linux 5.0 On Ubuntu 18.10 vs. NVIDIA's Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2019-01-30
The AMD Radeon RX Vega Launch Performance Compared To 2019 Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2019-01-24
Mesa 18.2 vs. 18.3 vs. 19.0 January Benchmarks For RadeonSI/RADV   Display Drivers   2019-01-21
Mesa 19.0 RADV vs. AMDVLK 2019.Q1.2 vs. Radeon Software 18.50 Linux Vulkan Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-01-17
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760/960/1060 / RTX 2060 Linux Gaming & Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-01-15
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Linux Performance From Gaming To TensorFlow & Compute   Graphics Cards   2019-01-08
NVIDIA's Linux Driver Saw Some Nice Performance Gains In 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-29
The GPU Compute Performance From The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To TITAN RTX   Graphics Cards   2018-12-25
Initial Linux Benchmarks Of The NVIDIA TITAN RTX Graphics Card For Compute & Gaming   Graphics Cards   2018-12-22
RadeonSI Gallium3D Made Some More OpenGL Performance Gains This Year   Display Drivers   2018-12-21
The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-20
AMD Radeon RX 590 Linux Benchmarks, 18-Way NVIDIA/AMD Gaming Comparison   Graphics Cards   2018-12-07
Radeon Vulkan Driver Benchmarks: AMDVLK 2018.4.2 vs. AMDGPU-PRO 18.40 vs. Mesa 18.2/19.0   Display Drivers   2018-11-25
AMDGPU+RADV Linux Gaming On GCN 1.0/1.1, 25-Way Warhammer II GPU Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2018-11-24
NVIDIA & AMD Linux Gaming Performance For Total War: Warhammer II At 1080p / 1440p / 4K   Linux Gaming   2018-11-22
20-Way AMD / NVIDIA Linux Gaming Benchmarks For The 2018 Holidays   Linux Gaming   2018-11-18
16-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Valve's Steam Play For Windows Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-11-06
RADV vs. AMDVLK vs. Radeon Software Vulkan Driver Performance - October 2018 Linux Gaming   Display Drivers   2018-10-04
12-Way Intel / AMD Integrated Graphics Linux Tests On Ubuntu 18.10   Display Drivers   2018-09-28
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To RTX 2080 Ti Graphics/Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2018-09-20
Initial NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Linux Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2018-09-19
September 2018 Drivers: The Current Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt From NVIDIA Kepler To Pascal vs. AMD   Display Drivers   2018-09-11
The Tighter NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Battle With 396.54 + Mesa 18.3-dev Drivers   Display Drivers   2018-08-28
AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Pro/Open vs. Upstream Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Radeon Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-08-23
A Fresh Look At The NVIDIA vs. Radeon Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt For August 2018   Linux Gaming   2018-08-20
SIGGRAPH 2018: OpenCL-Next Taking Shape, Vulkan Continues Evolving   Software   2018-08-13
20-Way NVIDIA/AMD Vulkan Linux Gaming Performance Comparison   Linux Gaming   2018-07-26
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Linux Games   Linux Gaming   2018-07-14
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux With OpenGL/Vulkan On GTX 1060/1080 Ti & RX 580/Vega 64   Display Drivers   2018-06-28
Radeon Software 18.20 vs. Mesa 18.2 RadeonSI/RADV Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-06-26
Core i7 8700K vs. Ryzen 7 2700X For Vulkan Gaming With Thrones of Britannia   Linux Gaming   2018-06-11
25-Way NVIDIA/AMD Linux Graphics Comparison For Vulkan-Powered Thrones Of Britannia   Linux Gaming   2018-06-10
NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux GPU Performance For THRONES OF BRITANNIA   Linux Gaming   2018-06-07
macOS 10.13 vs. Windows 10 vs. Clear/Fedora/openSUSE/Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2018-06-06
Dota 2 Vulkan Performance Across MacOS, Windows 10 & Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-06-05
Clear Linux Now Offers Radeon Mesa Graphics Support, Yields Speed Advantage In Some Tests   Operating Systems   2018-06-02
Ryzen 7 2700 / Ryzen 7 2700X / Core i7 8700K Linux Gaming Performance With RX Vega 64, GTX 1080 Ti   Linux Gaming   2018-05-21
RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-05-08
Radeon Software 18.10 vs. Mesa 18.2 RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-05-03
Core i7 8700K vs. Ryzen 7 2700X With Rise of The Tomb Raider On Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-04-26
20-Way NVIDIA GeForce / AMD Radeon GPU Comparison For Rise of The Tomb Raider On Vulkan/Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-04-19
Rise of the Tomb Raider Linux Performance On AMD Radeon GPUs   Linux Gaming   2018-04-19
RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Drivers Continue Stiff Performance Battle   Display Drivers   2018-04-18
NVIDIA 396.18 Linux Benchmarks, Testing Their New Vulkan SPIR-V Compiler   Display Drivers   2018-04-11
Radeon GPUs Are Increasingly Competing With NVIDIA GPUs On Latest RadeonSI/RADV Drivers   Linux Gaming   2018-03-19
Vulkan 1.1 Released As The First Major Update To This Graphics/Compute API   Display Drivers   2018-03-07
Vulkan Is Now Available On macOS/iOS By MoltenVK Being Open-Sourced, Vulkan SDK for Mac   Operating Systems   2018-02-26
AMD Raven Ridge Graphics On Linux vs. Lower-End NVIDIA / AMD GPUs   Graphics Cards   2018-02-16
AMD Vega 8 Graphics Performance On Linux With The Ryzen 3 2200G   Graphics Cards   2018-02-14
Ryzen 5 2400G Radeon Vega Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Gaming Benchmarks   Processors   2018-02-13
RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Is Still A Better Bet Than AMDVLK In February 2018   Display Drivers   2018-02-12
Mesa 12.0 To Mesa 18.0 Benchmarks Show The OpenGL/Vulkan Radeon Evolution   Display Drivers   2018-02-05
Intel OpenGL/Vulkan Performance Edging Slightly Higher With Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-31
RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks On Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-30
Mesa 18.0 Features Include Many OpenGL/Vulkan Improvements, Intel Shader Cache & Extras   Display Drivers   2018-01-28
Vulkan Continues To Show Its Gaming Strength On Low-End Hardware   Linux Gaming   2018-01-26
Intel OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance With Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-21
Linux Gaming For Older/Lower-End Graphics Cards In 2018   Linux Gaming   2018-01-19
RADV Vulkan Gaming Getting Closer To RadeonSI OpenGL Performance   Linux Gaming   2017-12-31
RADV Vulkan Driver Ends The Year On A High Note With A Performance Boost   Display Drivers   2017-12-29
A Closer Look At The AMDVLK vs. RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-27
AMDVLK vs. RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO 17.50 Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-24
OpenGL vs. Vulkan Linux Gaming Performance Ending Out 2017   Linux Gaming   2017-12-22
AMD Open-Source Driver For Vulkan "AMDVLK" Is Now Available   Display Drivers   2017-12-22
AMDGPU-PRO 17.50 vs. RADV/RadeonSI Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-12
Happy Holidays: AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2017-12-12
AMDGPU-PRO 17.50 Now Bundles Open-Source Components, Lets You Mix & Match Drivers   Display Drivers   2017-12-12

Vulkan Linux & Open-Source News

VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex   Valve   2024-03-15
Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G   Intel   2024-03-14
Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes   Mesa   2024-03-14
Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default   Intel   2024-03-13
Blumenkrantz Picks His Next Battle: Mesa's DRI Interfaces   Mesa   2024-03-13
Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support   Microsoft   2024-03-11
Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-03-10
NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver   Nouveau   2024-03-09
Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver   WINE   2024-03-08
Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension   Vulkan   2024-03-08
Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing   Mesa   2024-03-07
Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver   WINE   2024-03-06
RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG   Radeon   2024-03-06
VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V   WINE   2024-03-05
GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements   Multimedia   2024-03-04
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Descriptor Buffer Support To Reduce Linux Gaming CPU Overhead   Intel   2024-03-04
Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty   WINE   2024-03-03
UWP'ed Mesa Running On Microsoft Xbox, Allowing For New Game Ports With OpenGL   Mesa   2024-03-02
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve   Vulkan   2024-03-02
Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System   Mesa   2024-03-02
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February   Phoronix   2024-03-01
Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling   Mesa   2024-02-29
Mesa 24.0.2 Brings Many Zink Fixes, More Intel Alder Lake N IDs   Mesa   2024-02-29
Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found   Valve   2024-02-29
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default   Nouveau   2024-02-28
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library   Nouveau   2024-02-28
Libre-SoC Open-Source GPU/VPU Project Loses Key Funding   Hardware   2024-02-27
RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-27
Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls   Mesa   2024-02-26
Linux 6.8-rc6 Released: This Kernel May Need An Extra Week For Testing   Linux Kernel   2024-02-25
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR   Mesa   2024-02-25
GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection   Programming   2024-02-24
NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable   NVIDIA   2024-02-23
Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2024-02-23
SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer   Vulkan   2024-02-23
Mesa 24.1 Now Builds Zink By Default, Also Building D3D12 Driver By Default On Windows   Mesa   2024-02-23
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 Brings Several New Vulkan Extensions   Radeon   2024-02-23
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 24 Built Atop Wine 9.0   WINE   2024-02-22
Mesa Looks At Making The Zink Driver Build By Default   Mesa   2024-02-22
Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code   Intel   2024-02-21
WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance   GNOME   2024-02-21
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs   Mesa   2024-02-21
Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver   Intel   2024-02-19
Intel Making It Easier To Reproduce Linux GPU Hangs On Real Hardware   Intel   2024-02-16
RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For AMD Phoenix APUs   Radeon   2024-02-16
Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play   Vulkan   2024-02-16
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
HITMAN 3 Will Now Launch On Intel GPUs Under Linux After Hiding The GPU Vendor   Intel   2024-02-13
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Sees "Massive Boost" With Indirect Draw Generation   Intel   2024-02-13
Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9   Intel   2024-02-09
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted   Vulkan   2024-02-09
Intel Arrow Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Merged For Mesa 24.1   Intel   2024-02-06
Another Optimization Comes For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing In Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-05
PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters   PipeWire   2024-02-05
VOPD Scheduler For Valve's ACO Compiler Merged Into Mesa 24.1   Radeon   2024-02-05
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android   Mesa   2024-02-04
Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1   Mesa   2024-02-02
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension   Vulkan   2024-02-01
Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-01-31
The Current State & Future Of GTK's New Unified Renderers   GNOME   2024-01-29
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support   Mesa   2024-01-27
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 Brings Gang Submit, Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation   Radeon   2024-01-26
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions   Vulkan   2024-01-25
Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More   Vulkan   2024-01-25
NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland   NVIDIA   2024-01-24
AMD's Advanced Media Framework Adds Pro Vulkan & Experimental RADV Support   Radeon   2024-01-23
Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Wired Up To Support AMD's Radeon Memory Visualizer   Intel   2024-01-23
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.4 Released With Updated DXVK, Performance Improvements & Fixes   NVIDIA   2024-01-22
Mesa Vulkan Drivers Reach An Inflection Point: Idea Raised To Be More Like Gallium3D   Mesa   2024-01-19
Mesa 24.0-rc2 Released With This Quarter's Release Looking Good   Mesa   2024-01-17
Linux Distributions Now Encouraged To Build GTK With Vulkan   GNOME   2024-01-17
Wine 9.0 Released With Initial Wayland Driver, WoW64 Taking Shape & Better Direct3D   WINE   2024-01-16
Wine 9.0-rc5 Released With 22 Fixes From Game Crashes To Performance Issues   WINE   2024-01-12
Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0   Mesa   2024-01-11
Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver   Linux Kernel   2024-01-11
Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features   Mesa   2024-01-11
Mesa 23.3.3 Released With A Few Fixes For Intel, RADV & Zink   Mesa   2024-01-11
Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler   Vulkan   2024-01-10
Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache   Nouveau   2024-01-09
RADV Driver Lands "Highly Experimental" Transfer Queue Support   Radeon   2024-01-09
GTK Lands Their New Unified GPU Renderer, Vulkan Build Enabled By Default   GNOME   2024-01-08
AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024   Radeon   2024-01-08
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs   Linux Kernel   2024-01-07
Mesa RADV Driver Baking Improvements For VKD3D-Proton With AMD FSR3   Mesa   2024-01-07
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins   Mesa   2024-01-05
Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023   Microsoft   2024-01-03
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023   NVIDIA   2024-01-02
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.3 Released With Counter-Strike 2 Optimization, VKD3D Change   Radeon   2024-01-02
Mesa 24.0 Receives Further TGSI-To-NIR Conversion Work For AMD RadeonSI   Radeon   2024-01-02
Intel's Open-Source Contributions & Upstream Performance Optimizations Top 2023   Intel   2024-01-01
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023   Wayland   2024-01-01
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Exposes Cooperative Matrix Support   Intel   2023-12-30
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023   Phoronix   2023-12-28
Mesa 23.3.2 Released With Plenty Of Bug Fixes For Closing Out 2023   Mesa   2023-12-27
Intel Wires Up Dual-SIMD8 Dispatch For Mesa Drivers   Intel   2023-12-24
Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17   Wayland   2023-12-23
Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes   WINE   2023-12-22
Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics   Intel   2023-12-22
Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12   Linux Gaming   2023-12-21
Qt 6.7 Beta Released With Variable Font Support & QRhiWidget Class   Qt   2023-12-20
Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted   Vulkan   2023-12-19
RADV Vulkan Video Encoding Still Being Worked On   Mesa   2023-12-18
It's Looking Like 2024 Could Be The Year Of HDR On The Linux Desktop   KDE   2023-12-18
AMD Enables VCN Region Of Interest "ROI" Video Encoder Support For Linux GPU Drivers   Radeon   2023-12-17
For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver   Nouveau   2023-12-17
Mesa 23.3.1 Rolls Out Fixes From D3D12 To RADV   Mesa   2023-12-15
Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures   Mesa   2023-12-12
One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS   Nouveau   2023-12-11
Wine 9.0-rc1 Released With Upgraded VKD3D, Wine Wayland Improvements   WINE   2023-12-08
Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension   Vulkan   2023-12-08
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion   WINE   2023-12-07
Intel Will Submit New Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Soon - Likely For Linux 6.8   Intel   2023-12-07
AMD Releases Radeon GPU Profiler 2.0, RGA 2.9 & Other GPUOpen Tools   Radeon   2023-12-07
Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers   Linux Kernel   2023-12-07
Fedora Workstation 39 Delivers Some Nice Gains For AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Graphics   Fedora   2023-12-05
"Panthor" DRM Driver Coming Together For Newer Arm Mali GPUs   Linux Kernel   2023-12-04
Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver   Mesa   2023-12-02
Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2023-12-02
Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable   WINE   2023-11-30
Mesa 23.3 Released With Initial NVK Vulkan Driver, AMD RDNA3 Refresh & Raspberry Pi 5   Mesa   2023-11-29
NVK Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 & Newer   Nouveau   2023-11-28
PowerVR Binary Blob Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For New Graphics Driver   Hardware   2023-11-28
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V Improvements   Radeon   2023-11-27
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code   Intel   2023-11-26
Mesa 23.3-rc5 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Fixes   Mesa   2023-11-25
Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver   WINE   2023-11-24
Arrow Lake Support Added To The Intel Graphics Compiler   Intel   2023-11-24
VKD3D-Proton 2.11 Released With DXR Now Enabled By Default & DirectX Ultimate   Vulkan   2023-11-24
Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2023-11-23
AMD Begins Preparing LLVM For RDNA4 With GFX1200/GFX1201 Targets   Radeon   2023-11-23
wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work   Wayland   2023-11-22
Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Is Now Conformant For Vulkan 1.0   Nouveau   2023-11-20
Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024   X.Org   2023-11-19
Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12   Mesa   2023-11-19
RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables VCN Encoder Intra-Refresh Support   Radeon   2023-11-18
FFmpeg's ffplay Media Player Adds Vulkan Renderer   Multimedia   2023-11-18
Vulkan Support Begins Landing For Wine's Wayland Driver   WINE   2023-11-17
Intel Lands Vulkan Sparse Binding Support For ANV+i915 With Mesa 24.0   Intel   2023-11-17
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Protected Memory Support   Vulkan   2023-11-17
Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2023-11-17
Mesa 23.3-rc4 Released With More Fixes   Mesa   2023-11-16
Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine 4 & 5   Mesa   2023-11-15
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Improved HiDPI Support   WINE   2023-11-15
Rust-Written NAK Compiler Merged For Nouveau/NVK In Mesa 24.0   Mesa   2023-11-14
Intel's Mesa Shader Compiler Backend Scheduling Now ~30% Faster   Mesa   2023-11-14
FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode   Multimedia   2023-11-11
Vulkan 1.3.270 Released With New Imagination Extension To Help OpenGL Emulation   Vulkan   2023-11-10
Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series   Radeon   2023-11-09
Mesa 23.3-rc3 Released As The Stable Version Nears   Mesa   2023-11-09