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Mesa 17.1 Articles & Reviews

Days Away From Branching, How Mesa 17.2 RadeonSI Performance Compares To Mesa 17.1   Display Drivers   2017-07-17
The Grand Features Of Mesa 17.1: Vega, RadeonSI Shader Cache, Maturing Vulkan, New OpenGL Extensions   Display Drivers   2017-04-21
NVIDIA 381 Linux Beta vs. Linux 4.11 / Mesa 17.1 Radeon Comparison   Display Drivers   2017-04-18
9-Way RadeonSI GPU Tests On Mesa 17.1 + Linux 4.11   Graphics Cards   2017-04-17
RadeonSI Polaris: Mesa 12.0 vs. 13.0 vs. 17.0 vs. 17.1 Git   Display Drivers   2017-04-16
Ubuntu 16.10 vs. 17.04 Radeon Graphics Performance   Display Drivers   2017-04-13
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 vs. Mesa 17.1 RADV/RadeonSI Performance   Display Drivers   2017-04-12
AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM With GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs On Linux 4.11, Mesa 17.1-dev   Display Drivers   2017-04-06
RadeonSI OpenGL vs. RADV Vulkan Performance For Mad Max   Linux Gaming   2017-03-30
This Week's Mesa 17.1-dev + Linux 4.11 Radeon Performance vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   2017-03-22
How The RadeonSI OpenGL Performance Has Evolved From Mesa 11.1 To Mesa 17.1 Git   Display Drivers   2017-03-20
Mesa 13.0 vs. 17.0 vs. 17.1 Git RadeonSI Tests   Display Drivers   2017-03-18
Radeon Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.1-dev vs. NVIDIA 378.13 Graphics Performance   Display Drivers   2017-03-08
Linux 4.11-rc1 + Mesa 17.1 Git Tests With AMDGPU+RadeonSI/RADV   Display Drivers   2017-03-07
RadeonSI Mesa 17.1-dev vs. AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 OpenGL Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2017-02-18
RADV Mesa 17.1-dev vs. AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 Performance   Display Drivers   2017-02-17
Mesa 17.0 Benchmarks With Intel: Noticeably Better Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-02-10
RadeonSI Performance For Civilization VI On Linux With Mesa 17.1 + Linux 4.10   Linux Gaming   2017-02-10
Mesa 17.1-dev vs. AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 vs. NVIDIA 378 Linux Gaming Tests   Display Drivers   2017-01-30
AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 Vulkan vs. Mesa 17.1-dev RADV Performance   Display Drivers   2017-01-27
AMDGPU/RadeonSI Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.1-dev vs. NVIDIA 378.09 Performance   Display Drivers   2017-01-27

Mesa 17.1 Linux & Open-Source News

Nouveau Persevered In 2017 For Open-Source NVIDIA But 2018 Could Be Much Better   Nouveau   2017-12-31
The Vulkan Moments Of 2017: More Games, Better Drivers & Continued Open-Source Adoption   Vulkan   2017-12-27
ROSA Desktop Fresh R10 Still Lets You Pick Between KDE 4 & Plasma 5   Operating Systems   2017-12-09
The Top Mesa News Of 2017   Mesa   2017-12-03
Intel 2017Q3 Graphics Stack Recipe Released   Intel   2017-11-19
Mesa 17.3 By The Numbers   Mesa   2017-10-24
Android-x86 7.1-rc2 Now Supports NVMe SSDs, Better QEMU VirGL   Operating Systems   2017-10-22
Mesa 17.2.2 Set For Release Next Week   Mesa   2017-09-30
Mesa 17.1.10 Released, Time To Upgrade To Mesa 17.2   Mesa   2017-09-25
Mesa 17.1.10 Is Being Prepped As The Final 17.1 Update   Mesa   2017-09-21
Mesa 17.1.9 Released For Those Not Yet On Mesa 17.2   Mesa   2017-09-09
Mesa 17.1.7 Brings Various Fixes For Users Of Stable Open-Source 3D Drivers   Mesa   2017-08-21
Mesa 17.1.7 Being Prepped For Release   Mesa   2017-08-19
Solus 3 Linux Distribution Released For Enthusiasts   Operating Systems   2017-08-15
Ryzen, Windows 10 & Laptop Survey Piqued Linux Users In July   Phoronix   2017-08-01
Mageia 6 Officially Released, Now Defaults To GRUB 2 & KDE Plasma 5   Operating Systems   2017-07-16
Mesa 17.1.5 Brings More Fixes To Open-Source GPU Driver Users   Mesa   2017-07-14
Mesa 17.1.5 Is Coming This Week   Mesa   2017-07-12
Mesa 17.1.4 Released   Mesa   2017-06-30
Freedreno Continues Stacking On New Features For Open-Source Adreno   Mesa   2017-06-26
openSUSE Tumbleweed Jumps On Qt 5.9, Picks Up Default MP3   SUSE   2017-06-22
OpenMandriva Lx 3.02 Released   Operating Systems   2017-06-20
Mesa 17.1.3 Released   Mesa   2017-06-19
Feral Announces Requirements For Dawn of War III On Linux With OpenGL & Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2017-06-07
Mesa 17.1.2 Rolls Out With Numerous Fixes   Mesa   2017-06-05
Mesa 17.1.2 Is Primed For Release   Mesa   2017-06-02
Mesa 17.0.7 Released, Mesa 17.0 Hits The End Of The Line   Mesa   2017-06-01
Mesa 17.0.7 Being Prepped To End Out Mesa 17.0   Mesa   2017-05-29
Mesa 17.1.1 Released   Mesa   2017-05-25
Mesa 17.1.1 Coming This Week   Mesa   2017-05-22
Shogun 2 On Linux Will Work With Radeon GPUs On Mesa 17.1, NVIDIA 375+   Linux Gaming   2017-05-19
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls In Linux 4.11, KDE Applications 17.04   SUSE   2017-05-18
Mesa 17.1 Now Available On Ubuntu 16.04/17.04 Via X-Updates   Mesa   2017-05-17
RadeonSI Gallium3D Threading Lands, Along With Initial Raven Ridge Support   Mesa   2017-05-15
Mesa 17.0.6 Released With Polaris 12 RADV Support   Mesa   2017-05-12
Mesa 17.2 Planned For Release Mid-August   Mesa   2017-05-12
Raven Ridge, VCN Decode Support Patches Posted For Gallium3D   Radeon   2017-05-10
Two More Device IDs Added For Radeon Vega 10   Radeon   2017-05-10
Mesa 17.1 Released, Adds RADV Vulkan Conforming Patches   Mesa   2017-05-10
Mesa 17.1 RC4 Released, Fixes Polaris 12 Support   Mesa   2017-05-08
Mesa 17.1 RC3 Released To Kick Off May   Mesa   2017-05-01
Unity 8 Abandonment, Windows 10 vs. Linux Tests Dominated April   Phoronix   2017-04-30
Mesa 17.0.5 Is Now Available With 40+ Fixes   Mesa   2017-04-29
Mesa 17.1 Will Use A 1GB Shader Cache Limit   Mesa   2017-04-28
Mesa's Shader Cache Will Now Occupy Less Disk Space   Mesa   2017-04-27
Mesa 17.1 RC2 Packs In Over A Dozen More Fixes   Mesa   2017-04-24
61 New Patches Allow OpenGL 4.5 For Radeon RX Vega   Mesa   2017-04-24
More Details On The OpenGL 4.2 Support For Ivy Bridge With Mesa 17.1   Intel   2017-04-20
VC4 Fencing, HDMI Runtime PM & More For This Raspberry Pi Driver   Raspberry Pi   2017-04-17
Mesa Lands GLVND Support For EGL   Mesa   2017-04-17
Mesa 17.0.4 Released, Mesa 17.1 Has Been Branched & 17.1-RC1 Released   Mesa   2017-04-17
Mesa 17.0.4's Release Is imminent   Mesa   2017-04-15
MSAA Support Added To The OpenSWR Software Rasterizer   Intel   2017-04-15
Intel Ivy Bridge Gets OpenGL 4.2 On Mesa 17.1   Intel   2017-04-14
Freedreno Gets Last Minute Performance Boost For Mesa 17.1   Mesa   2017-04-14
Today Is The Last Day Of Feature Development For Mesa 17.1   Mesa   2017-04-14
Clear Linux Switches From ACPI CPUFreq To P-State   Clear Linux   2017-04-12
Superposition Shows How Far RadeonSI Gallium3D Has Evolved vs. AMDGPU-PRO   Radeon   2017-04-12
Pitoiset Prepping Bindless Textures For Mesa   Mesa   2017-04-11
AMD Developers Discuss Better Switching Of Radeon/AMDGPU CIK Support   Radeon   2017-04-11
Vulkan 1.0.42's VK_KHR_push_descriptor Now Supported In RADV   Vulkan   2017-04-07
ARB_shader_ballot Lands For RadeonSI Mesa 17.1   Radeon   2017-04-05
RadeonSI ARB_sparse_buffer Lands For Mesa 17.1   Mesa   2017-04-05
Additional Mesa Shader Cache Optimizations En Route   Mesa   2017-04-05
Vulkan's VK_KHR_incremental_present Now Supported By Mesa's ANV/RADV Drivers   Mesa   2017-04-04
Radeon TONGA Sees Some Gains With AMDGPU DRM-Next 4.12   Radeon   2017-04-03
AMD's Radeon R9 Fury Showing Some Gains With AMDGPU's DRM-Next 4.12   Radeon   2017-04-02
Mesa 17.0.3 Being Prepped With 30+ Fixes   Mesa   2017-03-30
Feral Interactive Vulkan-izes Mad Max   Linux Gaming   2017-03-30
Radeon RX Vega Support Lands In Mesa 17.1 Git   Mesa   2017-03-30
Some Interesting RadeonSI vs. NVIDIA Results For An Upcoming Linux Port   Hardware   2017-03-30
RADV Radeon Vulkan Gets Patches For Tessellation Support   Radeon   2017-03-30
Getting Better Radeon Polaris Performance On Ubuntu 17.04 With Mesa 17.1, Linux 4.11   Mesa   2017-03-26
Nouveau TGSI Shader Cache Enabled In Mesa 17.1 Git   Mesa   2017-03-23
Radeon Vega Changes For Libdrm, Plans For Merging Prior To Kernel Support   Radeon   2017-03-21
More Radeon Vega Work Lands For LLVM 5.0   Radeon   2017-03-21
140 Patches Posted To Wire Up Radeon RX Vega In RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2017-03-20
OpenGL 4.0 / FP64 Patches Updated For Intel Ivy Bridge   Intel   2017-03-20
Trying Out The New OpenGL Threaded Dispatch In Mesa 17.1   Mesa   2017-03-16
Threaded OpenGL Dispatch Lands In Mesa 17.1   Mesa   2017-03-16
Mesa 13.0.6 Is Being Prepared For Release With Many Backported Changes   Mesa   2017-03-15
An On-Disk Cache Is Coming To The RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-03-15
RADV Now Advertises Vulkan 1.0.42; Shader Cache Thread Queue Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2017-03-14
Arceri Is Working To Further Improve Mesa's Shader Cache Startup Performance   Mesa   2017-03-12
Mesa 17.1 Expected In Early May, Feature Freeze In One Month   Mesa   2017-03-09
OA Performance Counters Now Being Exposed By Intel's Mesa Driver   Intel   2017-03-09
Timothy Arceri Takes To Revising Mesa OpenGL Threaded Dispatch   Mesa   2017-03-07
Mesa's Shader Disk Cache Now Enabled By Default   Mesa   2017-03-05
Mesa 17.0.1 Released With 60+ Fixes   Mesa   2017-03-04
RadeonSI On-Disk Shader Cache Lands In Mesa Git   Mesa   2017-03-02
More Benchmarks Of The Latest Ubuntu 17.04 vs. Clear Linux   Clear Linux   2017-03-01
Mesa 17.0.1 Is Near, Release Candidate Is Out   Mesa   2017-03-01
Ryzen, Linux 4.11, Windows 10 & Kabylake Were Among The Popular Topics In February   Phoronix   2017-03-01
Initial PRIME Support Lands In RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-02-26
Trying Nouveau With HITMAN On Linux Doesn't Get Too Far   Nouveau   2017-02-24
MSAA Compression Lands In Intel's Vulkan Driver, Big Win When Using Anti-Aliasing   Intel   2017-02-23
NVIDIA vs. Radeon With HITMAN On Linux: CPU Usage, Memory Usage   Linux Gaming   2017-02-23
The Surprises When Testing A Radeon RX 470 With AMDGPU's DRM-Next Linux 4.11   Linux Kernel   2017-02-22
GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache Lands In Mesa For R600g/RadeonSI   AMD   2017-02-22
INTEL_performance_query Restored For Intel's Mesa Driver   Intel   2017-02-22
The Vulkan Differences Between AMDGPU-PRO, RADV & SteamVR's RADV Drivers   Vulkan   2017-02-22
MSAA Compression Support For Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver   Vulkan   2017-02-20
RadeonSI Works Surprisingly Well With HITMAN On Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-02-16
There Are Signs Of Vulkan Within Feral's Linux Port Of HITMAN - Updated   Vulkan   2017-02-16
Intel Goes Ahead & Drops i915 Driver From OpenGL 2.1 To 1.4 By Default   Intel   2017-02-15
Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Gets An Important Performance Fix For Broadwell   Intel   2017-02-14
OpenGL 4.0 Patches For Intel Ivy Bridge Revised   Mesa   2017-02-14
R600/RadeonSI GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache Revised   Mesa   2017-02-13
RADV Gets More Improvements For Mesa 17.1-dev, Lower Dota 2 CPU Usage   Mesa   2017-02-13
Mesa 17.0.0 Officially Released   Mesa   2017-02-13
Windows 10 vs. Linux With AMDGPU+RadeonSI, NVIDIA Pascal, Lots Of Games Coming   Operating Systems   2017-02-12
Trying Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D With Civilization 6 On Mesa 17.1   Nouveau   2017-02-10
Trying Intel Kabylake Graphics With Civilization VI On Ubuntu Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-02-10
RADV Fast Clears Land In Mesa Git, Fresh Vulkan Linux Benchmarks Imminent   Mesa   2017-02-07
TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache For Mesa: Caching Comes To R600g/RadeonSI   Mesa   2017-02-07
INT64 Support Comes To Nouveau's Gallium3D Driver   Nouveau   2017-02-06
OpenGL Shader Cache Support For RadeonSI Is Making Progress   Mesa   2017-02-04
Mesa Is Now Lighter By 58,000+ Lines Of Code   Mesa   2017-02-03
Mesa 13.0.4 Released While Waiting For Mesa 17.0   Mesa   2017-02-01
Mesa's Intel Vulkan Driver Now Builds On Android   Intel   2017-02-01
Geometry Shader Support Lands In RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-01-30
AMDGPU Winsys Gets Minor Optimization From Pitoiset   Mesa   2017-01-30
RADV Starts Off Another Exciting Week Of Development   Mesa   2017-01-30
RADV Spilling Support Patches Published   Vulkan   2017-01-29
libdrm 2.4.75 Library Released: Intel Synchronization Changes, USB Support   Mesa   2017-01-28
RadeonSI / Gallium3D Wires In Support For 64-bit Integers   Mesa   2017-01-27
Timothy Arceri To Tackle RadeonSI OpenGL Shader Caching   Mesa   2017-01-24
Intel's Mesa Vulkan Driver Now Supports VK_KHR_maintenance1   Vulkan   2017-01-24
On-Disk Shader Cache Revised For Mesa, Close To Landing   Mesa   2017-01-23
ARB_gpu_shader_int64 Lands For Intel Mesa Git   Intel   2017-01-20
RADV Vulkan Driver Has Geometry Shader Support For Testing   Vulkan   2017-01-19
Ivy Bridge Patches For OpenGL 4.0 In Mesa Updated   Intel   2017-01-17
It's Getting Close Whether The OpenGL On-Disk Shader Cache Will Happen For Mesa 17.0   Mesa   2017-01-11