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Mesa 11 Articles & Reviews

How The RadeonSI OpenGL Performance Has Evolved From Mesa 11.1 To Mesa 17.1 Git   Display Drivers   2017-03-20
RadeonSI's Gallium3D Driver Performance Has Improved Massively In The Past Year   Display Drivers   2016-11-25
A Brief Look At Fedora 24   Operating Systems   2016-06-16
AMDGPU-PRO Beta 2 vs. Mesa 11.3 + Linux 4.6: Very Competitive For Linux Gamers   Display Drivers   2016-05-24
Intel Skylake Performance Boosted By Mesa 11.3   Display Drivers   2016-05-22
Radeon Linux 4.6 + Mesa 11.3 vs. NVIDIA Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt   Graphics Cards   2016-05-18
Intel Broadwell Graphics Are Much Faster With Mesa 11.3   Display Drivers   2016-05-18
Early Radeon DRM-Next Tests Ahead Of Linux 4.7, Mesa 11.3: Many Improvements, One Card Falls   Display Drivers   2016-05-14
Fresh Mesa 11.3-devel RadeonSI Tests On Ubuntu 16.04 vs. NVIDIA's 364.19 Driver   Display Drivers   2016-04-28
Nouveau Kepler On Linux 4.6 vs. NVIDIA's 364 Proprietary Driver   Display Drivers   2016-04-04
Nouveau Kepler vs. Maxwell Performance On Linux 4.6 + Mesa 11.3-dev   Display Drivers   2016-03-30
Radeon + AMDGPU Performance On Linux 4.6   Display Drivers   2016-03-29
AMD GPU-PRO Hybrid Linux OpenGL Performance vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D   Display Drivers   2016-03-21
Intel Iris Pro 6200 Graphics On Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.3-devel   Display Drivers   2016-02-26
Radeon vs. Nouveau Gallium3D Driver Performance On Mesa 11.2-dev, Linux 4.5   Display Drivers   2016-02-13
Proprietary vs. Linux Git, Mesa 11.2-devel, DRI3 For R600g/RadeonSI   Display Drivers   2015-12-19
Intel Broadwell Laptop OpenGL Performance: Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux   Operating Systems   2015-12-11
Radeon DRM Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 vs. AMD's Proprietary Driver   Display Drivers   2015-11-29
AMD Tonga & Fiji Open-Source Performance Boosted By PowerPlay Patches   Display Drivers   2015-11-13
The Graphics Cards On Open-Source Linux Drivers With The Best Value + Power Efficiency   Graphics Cards   2015-09-15
AMD Linux Graphics: The Latest Open-Source RadeonSI Driver Moves On To Smacking Catalyst   Display Drivers   2015-09-01
Mesa 11.1-dev Tests With The Reverted RadeonSI Performance   Display Drivers   2015-08-29
Open-Source Linux Driver Comparison: Skylake HD Graphics vs. Radeon Gallium3D   Display Drivers   2015-08-28
AMD RadeonSI & R600g Gallium3D Tests On Mesa 11.0 + DRM-Next   Display Drivers   2015-08-27

Mesa 11 Linux & Open-Source News

Genode 17.08 Now Supports Broadwell Graphics, Xen DomU Support   Operating Systems   2017-08-30
Mesa 17.2 Is Measuring In As One Of The Largest Releases Ever   Mesa   2017-07-29
OpenELEC 7.0 Kodi HTPC Linux Distribution Released   Multimedia   2016-12-29
Mesa Hit OpenGL 4.5, Received Vulkan Drivers, Improved Performance & More In 2016   Mesa   2016-12-27
Mesa 12.0.4 Being Prepped For Ubuntu 16.10/16.04   Ubuntu   2016-12-03
Mesa Fixes Random GPU Hangs On AMD Hawaii & Fiji GPUs   Mesa   2016-10-27
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Rolls Out To Linux Gamers, Will Run Fine On Mesa   Linux Gaming   2016-09-29
Ubuntu 16.10 Doesn't Change Much With Performance, Clear Linux Still Leads In Most Tests   Clear Linux   2016-09-29
Some Fresh Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev OpenGL Benchmarks For Radeon GPUs   Mesa   2016-09-21
It's Really Worthwhile For AMDGPU Users On Ubuntu 16.04 To Upgrade Their Kernel, Mesa   Radeon   2016-08-25
Debian 8.5 vs. Debian Testing Benchmarks - July 2016   Debian   2016-07-08
GTK4, RX 480, GTX 1070/1080, Nextcloud & Other Popular Linux Announcements In June   Phoronix   2016-07-01
On Linux 4.6, Some Fresh RadeonSI Mesa 11.2 vs. Mesa Git Benchmarks   Mesa   2016-06-01
AMDGPU, Dota 2 Vulkan, NVIDIA Pascal Were Wowing Linux Users   Phoronix   2016-05-31
The 12 Big New Features Of Mesa 12.0   Mesa   2016-05-31
Mesa Branched, Mesa 12.0 RC1 Released   Mesa   2016-05-30
The Next Mesa Version Is Turning Into A Monstrous Release   Mesa   2016-05-30
Intel's Mesa Driver Should Have Compute Working For All Hardware Back To Ivy Bridge   Mesa   2016-05-28
Nouveau NVC0 & RadeonSI Now Officially Expose OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2016-05-27
Offchip Tessellation Lands In Mesa For RadeonSI Gallium3D   Mesa   2016-05-26
F1 2015: Don't Go Racing Yet With AMDGPU-Pro Or RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2016-05-26
Intel Might Actually Be Done With OpenGL 4.4 In Mesa   Intel   2016-05-24
Multiple OpenGL 4.x Adjustments Hits Mainline Mesa   Mesa   2016-05-24
AMDGPU-PRO BETA 2 Driver Is Playing Nicely On Ubuntu 16.04 With The R9 Fury   Radeon   2016-05-23
Intel SNA vs. Modesetting GLAMOR - DDX Benchmarks   Intel   2016-05-20
Trying R600g On Mesa 11.3, Cayman GPU On Linux 4.7 Radeon DRM Yields Problems   Mesa   2016-05-20
A TODO List For Intel's Linux Vulkan Driver   Intel   2016-05-20
Mesa 11.3 Isn't A Game Changer For Intel's Haswell   Intel   2016-05-19
It's Easy Trying Out Intel's OpenGL 4.2 Mesa Driver On Ubuntu 16.04   Intel   2016-05-17
Intel's Mesa Driver Jumps Ahead To OpenGL 4.2   Intel   2016-05-17
DRI3 Support Lands In Gallium3D's Video Code   Mesa   2016-05-16
It's Looking Like The Next Mesa Release Won't Be Delayed For OpenGL 4.5   Mesa   2016-05-16
Gallium3D Nine Gets Numerous Improvements Ahead Of Next Mesa Release   Mesa   2016-05-15
Trying The Padoka PPA For The Latest RadeonSI Experience On Ubuntu 16.04   Radeon   2016-05-12
Lossless Compression Added To Intel's Mesa Driver For Skylake   Mesa   2016-05-12
Patches Posted For Supporting DRI3 With VA-API & VDPAU   Mesa   2016-05-11
RadeonSI's New SDMA Texture Copy Code Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2016-05-10
Fedora 24 Beta Looks Nice, But Will They Ever Stop Mucking Up Anaconda?   Fedora   2016-05-10
Much Faster Tessellation Is Coming For AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D   Mesa   2016-05-10
Mesa 11.2.2 Released With Big Endian Improvements For Radeon, LibEGL For OpenBSD   Mesa   2016-05-09
Some Fresh Debian 8.4 vs. Debian Testing (Stretch) For A Xeon + Radeon System   Debian   2016-05-08
DRI3 On (X)Ubuntu 16.04 Still isn't Enough For Intel Graphics To Compete With Others   Ubuntu   2016-05-04
The Latest Freedreno Achievements For Open-Source Adreno Graphics In 2016   Mesa   2016-05-04
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Is Soon Switching To GCC 6, Lands Mesa 11.2.1 & Linux 4.5.2   Operating Systems   2016-05-04
FreeBSD Working On A GPLv3 Toolchain Repo & Other Advancements In Q1-2016   BSD   2016-05-02
Latest Intel FP64 Patches Published For i965 Mesa DRI Driver   Mesa   2016-04-29
Mesa 11.3/12.0 Planned For Release In June   Mesa   2016-04-28
See How Your Linux GPU Compares To Various GeForce GPUs With NVIDIA 364.19   NVIDIA   2016-04-27
Tomb Raider Is Being Released For Linux Today   Linux Gaming   2016-04-27
Nouveau NVC0 Appears Ready With OpenGL 4.2 Support For Select NVIDIA GPUs   Nouveau   2016-04-26
GLAMOR vs. EXA 2D Radeon Performance On X.Org Server 1.18.3 / Ubuntu 16.04   X.Org   2016-04-24
AMD Lands Its Interoperability Interface In Mesa   Mesa   2016-04-20
RadeonSI / AMD GCN Is Actually The Mesa 11.2 Requirement For Tomb Raider   Linux Gaming   2016-04-19
Tomb Raider Linux Requirements Released, Looks Like It Will Work With Mesa   Linux Gaming   2016-04-18
Mesa 11.2.1 Released For Stable Users Of Open-Source Linux GPU Drivers   Mesa   2016-04-17
Slackware 14.2 RC2 Now Available   Operating Systems   2016-04-16
Intel's Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mainline Mesa   Vulkan   2016-04-15
Intel Continues Prepping Their Vulkan Driver For Mainline Mesa   Mesa   2016-04-15
Mesa 11.2.1 Is Coming With Fixes For Gallium3D Nine, VA-API, Hardware Drivers   Mesa   2016-04-14
Mesa 11.2 Officially Landing In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2016-04-08
OpenMandriva Lx3 Beta 1 Finally Released, Built With Clang+LTO By Default   Operating Systems   2016-04-07
Mesa 11.2.0 Has Been Officially Released   Mesa   2016-04-04
Fedora 24 Alpha X.Org vs. (X)Wayland Gaming Tests   Fedora   2016-03-31
There Is A Steam Linux Game Where Nouveau On Kepler Is Outperforming NVIDIA's Blob   Nouveau   2016-03-31
Mesa 11.2 Planned For Release Friday; RC4 Issued   Mesa   2016-03-29
Gallium3D VDPAU Gets Better Interoperability Support With DMA-BUF   Mesa   2016-03-29
Fedora's Rawhide Nodebug Kernel Is Now On Linux 4.6   Fedora   2016-03-28
Mesa 11.2 Still Isn't Ready   Mesa   2016-03-26
AMD Polaris Support Lands In Mesa's RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver   Mesa   2016-03-25
AMD Polaris Support Already Lands In LLVM   LLVM   2016-03-24
It's Easy Now Getting GeForce GTX 900 Graphics Cards Running On Open-Source Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-03-23
Slackware 14.2 RC1 Arrives   Operating Systems   2016-03-18
Radeon DRI3 Performance On Ubuntu 16.04   Ubuntu   2016-03-17
Running Intel Haswell-ULT Graphics With Ubuntu 16.04's X-Staging PPA   Intel   2016-03-16
Is Intel's PowerTOP Utility Still Beneficial In 2016 On Ubuntu 16.04 To Save Power?   Intel   2016-03-14
Mesa 11.2 Features For When It's Released Very Soon   Mesa   2016-03-12
Using 64-bit Linux Software To Reduce Power Consumption?   Ubuntu   2016-03-10
X.Org Server 1.18 Makes It For Ubuntu 16.04   X.Org   2016-03-10
H.265/HEVC Main 10 Decode Support Added To Radeon UVD Code   Radeon   2016-03-08
Mesa 11.2-RC3 Now Available, Mesa 11.2 Hopefully Coming This Week   Mesa   2016-03-07
Two More Bits Of OpenGL 4.4 Get Tidied Up In Mesa   Mesa   2016-03-05
Fedora 23 vs. Rawhide Performance Tests, Xorg vs. Wayland & More   Fedora   2016-03-04
OpenSWR High Performance Software Rasterizer Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2016-03-02
AMD Sends Out Big Patch Series For HSA/OpenCL Interop Support   AMD   2016-03-02
Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" Beta 1 Released   Ubuntu   2016-02-25
RadeonSI Quietly Landed A Shader Cache As A Last Feature For Mesa 11.2   Radeon   2016-02-23
Mesa 11.3-dev Crosses Off Another OpenGL ES 3.2 Extension   Mesa   2016-02-23
Mesa 11.2 RC1 Now Available: Intel Still At OpenGL 3.3, Radeon/Nouveau At OpenGL 4.1   Mesa   2016-02-22
Mesa NVC0 Lands Fermi Compute Shaders   Nouveau   2016-02-21
Linux 4.5 Intel Skylake DRM Graphics Performance Tests   Linux Kernel   2016-02-21
Mesa 11.0.2 vs. Mesa 11.2-devel Benchmarks On Intel Skylake   Mesa   2016-02-20
SteamOS Already Adds In NVIDIA Vulkan Support   Valve   2016-02-18
Nouveau Lands GM107 Compute Support Ahead Of Mesa 11.2   Nouveau   2016-02-17
Mesa Vulkan Branch Published For Intel Linux Support   Intel   2016-02-16
That Was Fast: GM20x Maxwell Support Already Hitting Mesa   Nouveau   2016-02-16
Nouveau Developers Already Got 3D Games Running On Maxwell GPUs   Nouveau   2016-02-15
RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Competing Remarkably Well For Valve's Dota 2 On Linux   Mesa   2016-02-15
The VirGL Virtual OpenGL Renderer Is Growing Up   Virtualization   2016-02-15
The Dota 2 Performance On The Latest NVIDIA Linux Graphics Drivers   Linux Gaming   2016-02-14
AMDGPU's xf86-video-amdgpu vs. Mode-Setting DDX Performance   X.Org   2016-02-14
More Nouveau GL4 Feature Patches Published   Nouveau   2016-02-13
R600g+SI Dota 2 Benchmarks With Mesa 11.2, Linux 4.5 Show Open Driver Progress   Linux Gaming   2016-02-13
Compute Shader Code Begins Landing For Gallium3D   Mesa   2016-02-13
Talos Principle Is Still Struggling On The RadeonSI Driver   Linux Gaming   2016-02-13
Ubuntu 14.04 vs. 16.04 LTS AMD FirePro Performance On Open-Source   Ubuntu   2016-02-13
Some Fresh Radeon EXA/GLAMOR 2D Acceleration Benchmarks   Radeon   2016-02-11
Latest Mesa Update Lands In Ubuntu 16.04, Enables OpenGL 4.1 With LLVM 3.8   Mesa   2016-02-11
Mesa 11.1.2 Offers A Platter Of Bug Fixes   Mesa   2016-02-10
Trying Out The VC4 OpenGL Gallium3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 2   Debian   2016-02-10
The GTX 750 Series Still Has Lots Of Problems With Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-09
DRI3 Still Appears To Be Causing Problems For Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-09
Gallium3D Drivers Set To Receive OpenGL 4.3 AoA Support   Mesa   2016-02-08
This Low-End NVIDIA Card Has The Potential To Perform Competitively Using Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-07
Mesa 11.2 Is Set For Branching In Just Two Weeks, Release In Just Over One Month   Mesa   2016-02-06
A Ton Of Direct3D 9 "Nine" State Tracker Improvements Hit Mesa   Mesa   2016-02-04
FreeBSD Ended 2015 With A Lot Of Open-Source Progress   BSD   2016-02-04
RadeonSI Gallium3D Can Work With XCOM 2 On Linux   Mesa   2016-02-04
Core Mesa Is Now Just One Step Away From OpenGL 4.3 Compliance   Mesa   2016-02-03
RadeonSI/R600g Mesa 11.2-devel Clover OpenCL Benchmarks On Linux 4.5   Radeon   2016-02-02
R9 Fury Performance Gains With Linux 4.5-rc2? I'm Not So Lucky   AMD   2016-02-01
It Can Be Worthwhile Upgrading Your Open-Source Radeon Driver On Ubuntu 15.10   Radeon   2016-01-31
Running The Radeon R7 260X With The Experimental AMDGPU Driver   Radeon   2016-01-31
Shader Image Support For The Gallium3D Mesa State Tracker   Mesa   2016-01-31
Testing OpenGL 4.1 With An AMD Cypress GPU On The Latest Open-Source Driver   AMD   2016-01-30
More AMDGPU & Radeon Benchmarks Of Linux 4.5 With Mesa 11.2 Git   Radeon   2016-01-30
Forcing The R9 Fury's Performance State For Better AMDGPU Performance?   Radeon   2016-01-28
Trying To Run The AMDGPU Driver With A Hawaii GPU On Linux 4.5   Radeon   2016-01-27
Changes Start Heading Into AMDGPU For LLVM 3.9   Radeon   2016-01-26
Some Video Acceleration Improvements Land In Gallium3D   Mesa   2016-01-14
Mesa 11.1.1 Brings Many Fixes To All The Popular Drivers   Mesa   2016-01-13
Medieval II: Total War Collection Coming To Linux This Week, Works With Mesa 11.2   Linux Gaming   2016-01-11
PlayStation 4 Running Linux Can Use Open-Source Radeon Gallium3D Driver   Hardware   2016-01-05
Vulkan, BUS1, SuperTux, Raspberry Pi Zero & Other Popular December Topics   Free Software   2016-01-01
AMD/Radeon Has Continued Making Much Linux Graphics Progress   Radeon   2015-12-28
The Mesmerizing Mesa Milestones Of 2015   Mesa   2015-12-27
Will Linux 4.5 Bring Any Performance Boost For Pre-AMDGPU Radeon?   Radeon   2015-12-24
How To Use AMDGPU PowerPlay On The Linux 4.5 Kernel   Radeon   2015-12-23
AMDGPU PowerPlay Code Gets Readied For Linux 4.5   Radeon   2015-12-22
Mesa 11.0.8 Brings Many Fixes Throughout The 3D Stack   Mesa   2015-12-21
QEMU 2.5 Released With The VirtIO GPU 3D Support   Virtualization   2015-12-16
Running OpenGL 4.1, DRI3 With Mesa Git On An AMD Cayman GPU   AMD   2015-12-16
Mesa 11.1 Officially Released   Mesa   2015-12-15
Mesa 11.1 Will Likely Support The Raspberry Pi 3D Support In Linux 4.5   Mesa   2015-12-14
Xeon Skylake Users May Run Into Display Problems With Current Distributions   Intel   2015-12-12
Intel + Mesa Git Will Run GRID Autosport On Linux   Intel   2015-12-11
How AMD's Carrizo A10-8700P Compares To Intel's Core i3/i5   AMD   2015-12-11
Is Mesa 11.2-dev Any Faster For Broadwell HD Graphics 5500?   Intel   2015-12-10
Mesa 11.0.7 Brings 45 More Fixes   Mesa   2015-12-09
Mesa 11.1 RC3 Released   Mesa   2015-12-07
Intel Is Very Close With Tessellation Shaders For Mesa   Intel   2015-12-02