Marek Articles & Reviews |
| Benchmarking The New RadeonSI/Gallium3D Threaded Support | Display Drivers | 2017-05-11 |
| Radeon HyperZ R300g Performance | Display Drivers | 2012-12-04 |
Marek Linux & Open-Source News |
| The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers | Mesa | 2024-03-19 |
| RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1 | Radeon | 2024-03-16 |
| Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls | Mesa | 2024-02-26 |
| Mesa Eyes Pulling libdrm Into Its Codebase | Mesa | 2024-01-17 |
| AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024 | Radeon | 2024-01-08 |
| GCC Preparing To Introduce "-fhardened" Security Hardening Option | GNU | 2023-09-15 |
| AMD Isn't Done Yet Optimizing The Mesa RadeonSI Driver For Workstation OpenGL | Radeon | 2023-08-17 |
| GCC 14 Adds Initial "-std=c++26" Plumbing | GNU | 2023-06-24 |
| AMD Is Hiring For Another Open-Source Linux/Mesa Developer | Radeon | 2023-05-08 |
| Open-Source AMD OpenGL Driver Drops Support For Smart Access Memory / ReBAR | Radeon | 2023-03-08 |
| RADV Enables Variable Rate Shading For RDNA3, RadeonSI Lands More Fixes | Radeon | 2023-03-08 |
| Many Radeon RX 7000 Series "RDNA3" Fixes Land In Mesa 23.1 | Radeon | 2023-02-25 |
| Many Small Updates To The Radeon RX 7000 Series / AMD RDNA3 Support Land In Mesa | Radeon | 2023-02-03 |
| AMDGPU Linux 6.3 Addition To Help With Optimized Buffer Placement | Radeon | 2023-01-21 |
| Mesa Open-Source 3D Drivers Experienced Record Growth In 2022 | Mesa | 2022-12-29 |
| 22 Patches From AMD Further Along Mesa's Workstation Performance | Mesa | 2022-12-16 |
| Mesa 22.3 Lands Open-Source Radeon Driver CPU Overhead Optimizations | Radeon | 2022-09-27 |
| AMD Radeon Linux OpenGL Driver Makes More Optimizations, Eyes GL Threading By Default | Radeon | 2022-08-28 |
| AMD Lands A Number Of RadeonSI RDNA NGG Fixes Ahead Of RDNA3 Enabling | Radeon | 2022-06-12 |
| Mesa 22.2 RadeonSI Adds Option To Disable AMD Infinity Cache Usage, Other Changes | Radeon | 2022-05-17 |
| GCC 12's Shiny New C++ Features - More Of C++23 Implemented | GNU | 2022-05-01 |
| LibreOffice Sees New Activity For Compiling To WebAssembly | LibreOffice | 2022-01-19 |
| It's 2022 But AMD's Open-Source OpenGL Driver Isn't Done Being Optimized | Mesa | 2022-01-05 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Adds Option To Limit Number Of Enabled CUs | Radeon | 2022-01-05 |
| The Most Exciting AMD Linux / Open-Source News Of 2021 | AMD | 2021-12-29 |
| Mesa Open-Source GPU Drivers Enjoyed Near-Record Growth In 2021, Valve Dev Top Contributor | Mesa | 2021-12-26 |
| Intel's Lead Developer Of Their Linux Vulkan Driver Has Left The Company | Intel | 2021-12-19 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Wires Up Wave32 Improvements For RDNA GPUs | Radeon | 2021-12-13 |
| Minecraft Now 30% Faster With Open-Source AMD Radeon Driver On Linux | Radeon | 2021-11-26 |
| More RadeonSI Optimizations Land In Mesa 22.0 | Mesa | 2021-11-20 |
| GCC & LLVM Patches Pending To Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks | Linux Security | 2021-11-01 |
| RadeonSI Lands Yet Another Round Of Optimizations That Further Reduce CPU Overhead | Mesa | 2021-10-29 |
| RadeonSI Enables NGG Shader Culling For Navi 1x Consumer GPUs | Radeon | 2021-10-19 |
| Radeon Gallium3D Picks Up A Nice Performance Optimization For iGPU/dGPU PRIME Setups | Radeon | 2021-10-07 |
| RadeonSI Lands Another Big Overhead Optimization - "Substantially" Helps In Some Cases | Mesa | 2021-10-04 |
| RadeonSI Lands Big Batch Of Improvements To Lower CPU Overhead | Radeon | 2021-09-14 |
| Another Batch Of RadeonSI Optimizations Land In Mesa 21.3 | Radeon | 2021-09-11 |
| AMD Just Squeezed More Workstation Performance Out Of Its RadeonSI Driver | Radeon | 2021-09-10 |
| RadeonSI Enables DCC Stores For RDNA2 APUs To Squeeze Out More Performance | Radeon | 2021-09-01 |
| AMD's Open-Source Mesa Driver Continues To Be Ruthlessly Optimized For Workstation Performance | Radeon | 2021-08-24 |
| AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm | AMD | 2021-07-04 |
| Mesa's Exciting Milestones So Far In 2021 From Zink To Great Intel/AMD Open-Source Work | Mesa | 2021-06-27 |
| Mesa Lands Work Around Async glFlush - Should Help Workstation Performance | Mesa | 2021-06-20 |
| Mesa 21.1.2 Released - RadeonSI Now Disables DFSM For Vega To Fix Performance Drop | Mesa | 2021-06-02 |
| Qualcomm Adreno 660 Support Published For Open-Source MSM DRM Driver | Hardware | 2021-05-13 |
| Mesa Fixes Up The Recent L3 Cache Pinning Rework | Mesa | 2021-05-04 |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April | Phoronix | 2021-05-01 |
| AMD Proposing Redesign For How Linux GPU Drivers Work - Explicit Fences Everywhere | Mesa | 2021-04-20 |
| The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021 | Mesa | 2021-03-29 |
| AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead | Radeon | 2021-03-24 |
| Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly | LibreOffice | 2021-02-10 |
| Mesa Continues With More Optimizations For Workstation OpenGL Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-31 |
| More OpenGL Threading Improvements Land For Mesa 21.1 | Mesa | 2021-01-21 |
| Radeon Linux Drivers Now Only Officially Support Smart Access Memory On Zen 3 + RDNA2 | Mesa | 2021-01-05 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| Mesa 21.0 Begins Landing Optimizations For AMD Smart Access Memory | AMD | 2020-12-09 |
| RadeonSI Finally Sees Experimental ACO Patches As Alternative To LLVM Shader Compiler | Radeon | 2020-12-07 |
| Mesa Now 2~5x Faster For SPECViewPerf Following OpenGL Optimizations | Mesa | 2020-12-01 |
| RadeonSI Lands Optimization For Uber Shaders | Mesa | 2020-10-30 |
| Mesa 20.3 Lands Rewritten AMD Zen L3 Cache Optimization | Mesa | 2020-10-30 |
| Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe | Vulkan | 2020-10-01 |
| RadeonSI Resorts To Disabling SDMA For GFX9/Vega Due To APU Issues | Radeon | 2020-08-05 |
| RadeonSI Lands Bits In Mesa 20.2 For Better Dealing With GPU Virtualization | Mesa | 2020-07-22 |
| RadeonSI Switches To Make Greater Wave64 Use On Navi | Radeon | 2020-07-01 |
| GCC 11 Proposal Would Default To C++17 Level Features | GNU | 2020-05-17 |
| AMD's Marek Olšák Lands Even More OpenGL Threading Improvements Into Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-04-06 |
| Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps | Mesa | 2020-04-02 |
| RadeonSI Experimenting With Compute-Based Culling For Navi/GFX10 | Radeon | 2020-03-28 |
| Radeon OpenGL Driver Lands Experimental Option To Boost Performance For CAD Software | Radeon | 2020-03-26 |
| OpenGL Threading "GLTHREAD" Seeing Improvements For Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-03-21 |
| Mesa 20.1 Lands OpenGL Threading Improvements | Mesa | 2020-03-06 |
| RadeonSI Introduces A Live Shader Cache With Mesa 20.0 | Mesa | 2020-01-25 |
| RADV's Next-Gen Geometry Code Continues To Be Revised For Navi GPUs | Radeon | 2020-01-13 |
| Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2020-01-03 |
| The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s | Radeon | 2019-12-18 |
| RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs | Mesa | 2019-12-10 |
| The Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Important Performance Feature | Mesa | 2019-12-10 |
| Mesa Developers Weigh Renaming Gallium "State Tracker" To "API" | Mesa | 2019-12-05 |
| Mesa Devs Discuss Potentially Dropping Non-Gallium Drivers Or Forking Code For Gallium | Mesa | 2019-12-04 |
| 7 Days To Die Is Another Game Seeing A Big Bump From Mesa OpenGL Threading | Mesa | 2019-11-19 |
| Mesa 19.3 Adds Support For New AMDGPU Reset Interface | Mesa | 2019-10-29 |
| Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3 | Mesa | 2019-10-18 |
| Libdrm 2.4.100 Released With Bits For Intel Elkhart Lake, Tiger Lake Graphics | Mesa | 2019-10-17 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Gets MSAA Working | Mesa | 2019-10-16 |
| Mesa's DRM Library Looking To Change Its Versioning Scheme | Mesa | 2019-10-11 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Is Back To Seeing Activity | Mesa | 2019-09-27 |
| AMD To Land Support For Navi 14 Into The Upcoming Mesa 19.2 Driver Stack | Radeon | 2019-08-27 |
| TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI | Mesa | 2019-08-12 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Picks Up A NIR Compiler | Mesa | 2019-08-07 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds Navi Wave32 Support | Radeon | 2019-07-20 |
| More RadeonSI Navi Improvements Are Pending | Mesa | 2019-07-06 |
| Libdrm 2.4.99 Released With Navi Support, AMDGPU Changes | Mesa | 2019-07-03 |
| Radeon Navi Support Pending For RadeonSI OpenGL Driver With 47k Line Worth Of Changes | Radeon | 2019-06-26 |
| RadeonSI Gets Some Tidying Ahead Of Navi/GFX10 Support (Radeon RX 5700 Series) | Radeon | 2019-06-20 |
| ATI R300 Gallium3D Driver Seeing A Big Performance Fix After Being Regressed For Years | Radeon | 2019-06-05 |
| RadeonSI Primitive Culling Lands In Mesa 19.2 | Mesa | 2019-05-20 |
| Mesa Is About To Crack 2.7 Million Lines | Mesa | 2019-04-29 |
| AMD's Marek Has A Patch Helping To Reduce Gallium3D Input Lag | Mesa | 2019-04-27 |
| Mesa 19.1 To Expose EXT_gpu_shader4 Support | Mesa | 2019-04-25 |
| AMD Lands Displayable DCC Support For Raven APUs In Mesa 19.1's RadeonSI | Mesa | 2019-04-04 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D In Mesa 19.1 Enables Parallel Shader Compile Support | Radeon | 2019-04-01 |
| RadeonSI Driver Adding Displayable DCC For Raven Ridge | Radeon | 2019-03-01 |
| RadeonSI Gets Patches To Finally Tap The Parallel Shader Compile Extensions | Radeon | 2019-02-25 |
| RadeonSI Gets NIR Improvements, Enabled By Default For Civilization VI | Radeon | 2019-02-19 |
| RadeonSI Primitive Culling Yields Mixed Benchmark Results | Radeon | 2019-02-14 |
| RadeonSI Picks Up Primitive Culling With Async Compute For Performance Wins | Mesa | 2019-02-13 |
| AMD_DEBUG Can Now Be Used In Place Of R600_DEBUG For RadeonSI Options | Radeon | 2019-02-13 |
| Starcraft 2 In Wine & Select Games Could See Nice Performance Win With RadeonSI Patches | Radeon | 2019-02-07 |
| Libdrm 2.4.97 Released With AMDGPU Updates, Other Minor Work | Mesa | 2019-01-22 |
| Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers | Mesa | 2018-12-26 |
| AMD Wires In A Few More Extensions For Their Open-Source OpenGL Driver | Mesa | 2018-11-29 |
| Marek Takes To Possible AMDGPU Winsys Memory Optimizations | Mesa | 2018-11-24 |
| Mesa Gets Testing Patches For New Zen Optimization Around Thread Pinning | Mesa | 2018-11-13 |
| Mesa Drops Support For AMD Zen L3 Thread Pinning, Will Develop New Approach | Mesa | 2018-11-12 |
| More AMD Zen Microarchitecture Tuning For Mesa Is Likely Ahead | Mesa | 2018-11-08 |
| AMD Raven 2 Support Might Land In Time For Mesa 18.3 | Mesa | 2018-10-30 |
| GCC's Test Suite To Begin Testing C++17 By Default | GNU | 2018-10-17 |
| RadeonSI Fast Color Clears Should Now Be Even Faster | Mesa | 2018-10-07 |
| Thanks Google: Linux Kernel Finally Nearing Support For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2 | Apple | 2018-09-30 |
| AMD's Marek Olšák Is Dominating Mesa Open-Source GPU Driver Development This Year | Mesa | 2018-09-12 |
| The RadeonSI Performance Tuning For AMD Zen CPUs Has Landed In Mesa | AMD | 2018-09-09 |
| RadeonSI Gets Patches For OpenGL 4.5 Compat, Workaround For No Man's Sky On Steam Play | Radeon | 2018-08-24 |
| RadeonSI Gets Another Handful Of OpenGL Extensions, Mirroring The PRO Driver's Behavior | Mesa | 2018-08-24 |
| More OpenGL Extensions For RadeonSI Are The Latest In A Flurry Of Interesting Activity | Radeon | 2018-08-09 |
| Marek Tackles EXT_gpu_shader4 Support In Gallium3D For Old Games/Apps | Mesa | 2018-08-08 |
| RadeonSI Gets Patches For AMD_framebuffer_multisample_advanced (EQAA) | Mesa | 2018-08-05 |
| All Gallium3D Drivers Getting ASTC Compression Support, RadeonSI Hits OpenGL ES 3.2 | Mesa | 2018-07-29 |
| AMD Proposes New OpenGL Advanced Frame-Buffer Multi-Sample Extension | Radeon | 2018-07-24 |
| Marek Squeezes More Performance Out Of RadeonSI In CPU-Bound Scenarios | Radeon | 2018-07-14 |
| Vega 20 Support Added To RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver | Radeon | 2018-07-12 |
| RadeonSI Compute Shaders Now Supported By The Mesa Shader Cache | Radeon | 2018-06-30 |
| RadeonSI Lands OpenGL 3.3 Compatibility Profile Support | Mesa | 2018-06-18 |
| Mesa RadeonSI Lands Possible Vega/Raven Performance Improvement | Mesa | 2018-06-14 |
| Vega Up For Another Performance Boost On RadeonSI, More Fixes For RADV From Feral | Mesa | 2018-06-01 |
| OpenGL Compatibility Profile Updates Land In Mesa 18.2-dev | Mesa | 2018-05-30 |
| Geometry & Tessellation Shaders For Mesa's OpenGL Compatibility Context | Mesa | 2018-05-24 |
| RADV Gets Support For 32-bit GPU Pointers For User SGPRs, Benefiting Performance | Mesa | 2018-05-19 |
| AMD Kaveri Gets A Big Performance Boost With Mesa 18.2 & AMDGPU DRM | Mesa | 2018-05-11 |
| RadeonSI Ups Its Compiler Threads To Let Shader-DB Run Faster On Modern Systems | Radeon | 2018-04-28 |
| Mesa's Gallium HUD Gets A Simple Option | Mesa | 2018-04-14 |
| RadeonSI Now Supports KHR_blend_equation_advanced, Needed For OpenGL ES 3.2 | Mesa | 2018-04-03 |
| RadeonSI Gets A "Mega Cleanup" To Kick Off Spring | Mesa | 2018-04-02 |
| AMD Vega 12 GPU Support Lands In Mesa 18.1-devel | Mesa | 2018-03-28 |
| Mesa 18.1 Receives OpenGL 3.1 With ARB_compatibility For Gallium3D Drivers | Mesa | 2018-02-23 |
| Marek Working Towards Even Lower SGPR Register Usage | Radeon | 2018-02-18 |
| Libdrm 2.4.90 Released With Meson Build System, AMDGPU & Intel Improvements | Mesa | 2018-02-18 |
| Mesa Git Lands RadeonSI 32-bit Pointers Support | Mesa | 2018-02-17 |
| Marek Updates OpenGL 3.1 ARB_compatibility Support For Mesa | Mesa | 2018-02-15 |
| Marek Working On 32-bit GPU Pointers For RadeonSI | Mesa | 2018-01-06 |
| Mesa Grew By Nearly 250,000 Lines Of Code In 2017 Across 10k Commits | Mesa | 2018-01-02 |
