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Mesa 17.3 Articles & Reviews

The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-20
Mesa 17.3 Features - Vulkan Updates, Better Performance   Display Drivers   2017-11-06
RadeonSI/RADV Mesa 17.3 + AMDGPU DC vs. NVIDIA 387.12 Linux Gaming Performance   Graphics Cards   2017-10-25
Mesa 17.3 With RADV Vulkan Running Great With Polaris, Starts To Outperform AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2017-10-24
Radeon RX Vega 64: AMDGPU-PRO vs. DRM-Next + Mesa 17.3-dev   Display Drivers   2017-10-23
Radeon RX Vega Performance With Mesa 17.3-dev + LLVM 6 + drm-next-4.15-dc   Display Drivers   2017-09-29
RADV Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance With Linux 4.13 + Mesa 17.3-dev   Display Drivers   2017-09-22

Mesa 17.3 Linux & Open-Source News

Valve Updates SteamVR AMD Requirements, Recommends Using PPAs On Ubuntu   Valve   2018-10-04
Mesa 18.0.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-04-18
Mesa 17.3.9 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2018-04-18
Mesa 17.3.9 Is Coming With About Two Dozen Fixes To End Out Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2018-04-12
Mesa 17.3.8 Released With A Handful Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-04-03
The Linux-Lima DRM Driver For ARM Mali Hooks Up To The AMDGPU Scheduler   Linux Kernel   2018-04-01
Mesa 17.3.8 Is Being Prepared With Another Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-03-29
Mesa 17.3.7 Released With A Bunch Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-03-21
Mesa 17.3.7 RC2 Issued With Even More Patches   Mesa   2018-03-19
Mesa 17.3.7 Nearing Release With 50+ Changes   Mesa   2018-03-16
Mesa 18.0 Has Been Off The Tracks For More Than One Month   Mesa   2018-03-13
Mesa Developers Working To Figure Out How To Improve Their Release Process   Mesa   2018-03-13
Mesa 17.3.6 Released To Fix Intel GPU Hangs   Mesa   2018-02-26
Mesa 17.3 Remains Quite Buggy, Developer Calls For Better Handling In The Future   Mesa   2018-02-22
Vega Gets Its Last Fix For Dawn of War III On Linux With Vulkan   Radeon   2018-02-20
Mesa 17.3.5 Released To Fix A RADV Bug   Mesa   2018-02-19
Mesa 17.3.4 Released With 90+ Changes   Mesa   2018-02-15
Intel 2017Q4 Graphics Stack Recipe Released   Intel   2018-02-14
Mesa 18.0 Now Under Feature Freeze With 18.0-RC1 Premiere   Mesa   2018-01-23
openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls To Mesa 17.3, Linux 4.14.13   SUSE   2018-01-19
Mesa 17.3.3 Released With RADV & ANV Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-01-19
Mesa 17.3.3 Is On The Way With Better Vega Support On Vulkan   Mesa   2018-01-16
Mesa 17.3.2 Released With The Latest Stable Fixes   Mesa   2018-01-09
Valve Ships Its First SteamOS Brewmaster Beta Of 2018   Valve   2018-01-05
Mesa 17.3.2 Being Prepped With Fixes For RADV Vulkan, Unreal Engine 4 Games   Mesa   2018-01-04
Mesa 17.2.2 vs. 17.3.1 vs. 17.4-dev RadeonSI Benchmarks   Radeon   2017-12-31
The Vulkan Moments Of 2017: More Games, Better Drivers & Continued Open-Source Adoption   Vulkan   2017-12-27
Mesa 17.2.8 Released With Just Over One Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2017-12-23
Mesa 17.3.1 Released With Around Three Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2017-12-21
Mesa 17.3.1 Is Being Prepped With Around Three Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2017-12-18
Mesa 17.2.7 Released For Those Not Yet On Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2017-12-14
Mesa Glthread Gets Adds Another Game, AMDGPU Winsys Gets Performance Workaround   Mesa   2017-12-12
Mesa 17.3 Officially Released: Nearly OpenGL 4.6, Better Vulkan Support   Mesa   2017-12-08
AMD Raven Ridge APU Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git   AMD   2017-12-04
Qt 5.10 RC3 Released, Qt 5.10 Now Expected This Week   Qt   2017-12-04
Mesa 17.3-RC6 Released, Final Now Expected This Week   Mesa   2017-12-04
Mesa 17.2.6 Released With 53 Changes While Mesa 17.3 Is Around The Corner   Mesa   2017-11-25
Mesa 17.2.6 RC Arrives With 50+ Fixes   Mesa   2017-11-24
Mesa 17.3-RC5 Released, Official Mesa 3D Update Expected By Next Week   Mesa   2017-11-20
Intel 2017Q3 Graphics Stack Recipe Released   Intel   2017-11-19
Linux 4.15 Is A Huge Update For Both AMD CPU & Radeon GPU Owners   AMD   2017-11-18
Mesa 17.3-RC4 Released, Handful Of Blocker Bugs Still Left   Mesa   2017-11-14
Mesa 17.2.5 Released   Mesa   2017-11-11
More RADV Radeon Vulkan Optimizations Are In The Works   Mesa   2017-11-08
Mesa 17.3-RC3 Released As The Quarterly Update Nears   Mesa   2017-11-07
Feral Releases F1 2017 For Linux, More Details On The Vulkan Driver Requirements   Linux Gaming   2017-11-02
Intel i965 Mesa Driver Finally Lands Its On-Disk Shader Cache   Intel   2017-11-01
Mesa 17.2.4 Released While Mesa 17.3 Continues To Bake   Mesa   2017-10-30
OpenGL 4.6 Didn't Make It For Mesa 17.3, But It's Getting Close   Mesa   2017-10-24
Mesa 17.3 By The Numbers   Mesa   2017-10-24
Mesa 17.3 Has Been Branched   Mesa   2017-10-23
i965 Shader Cache Revised As It Still Might Squeeze Into Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2017-10-22
Valve Developer Lands VK_EXT_global_priority For RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-10-21
Intel Wires In EGL Context Priority Support For Their Mesa Driver   Mesa   2017-10-20
Occlusion Queries Land In Etnaviv For Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2017-10-20
Many Vega Improvements & Other Fixes Land In Mesa For RADV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2017-10-20
Mesa 17.2.3 Offers Vulkan Fixes, Gallium3D Updates   Mesa   2017-10-19
Intel OpenGL Shader Cache Revised Once More   Intel   2017-10-19
DRM Leasing Support To Land For Linux 4.15   X.Org   2017-10-19
Etnaviv Gallium3D Is Almost To OpenGL 2.0 Compliance   Mesa   2017-10-17
Meson-ized Mesa Now Supports More Drivers   Mesa   2017-10-17
Mesa 17.3 Will Be Branching Soon For Releasing In Mid-November   Mesa   2017-10-12
Another Minor Performance Optimization For RADV   Radeon   2017-10-12
RADV Vulkan Driver Gets An On-Disk Shader Cache   Vulkan   2017-10-11
Testing Primitive Binning With Vega 10 On RadeonSI   Radeon   2017-10-08
More AMDGPU DC + RadeonSI/RADV vs. NVIDIA Linux OpenGL+Vulkan Benchmarks   Hardware   2017-10-05
S3TC Support Lands In Mesa Git Along With An OpenGL 4.6 Extension For Intel   Mesa   2017-10-03
S3TC Support Will Land In Mesa Now That The Patent Has Expired   Mesa   2017-10-02
Mesa 17.2.2 Set For Release Next Week   Mesa   2017-09-30
Outlast Gets ~10%+ Performance Boost From Mesa GL Threading   Mesa   2017-09-30
An Ubuntu Kernel Spin Of AMDGPU DC "drm-next-4.15-dc"   Radeon   2017-09-28
Initial Meson Build System Support Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2017-09-28
Mesa 17.1.10 Released, Time To Upgrade To Mesa 17.2   Mesa   2017-09-25
Intel ANV Lands New Vulkan 1.0.61 Extensions, Android Prep Support   Intel   2017-09-18
RadeonSI OoO Rasterization Lands In Mesa 17.3 For RX Vega & VI GPUs   Mesa   2017-09-18
Mesa 17.2.1 Released With Restored RADV Vulkan RX Vega Support   Mesa   2017-09-17
Mesa GL Threading Gets Flipped On For More Linux Games   Mesa   2017-09-14
VK_EXT_debug_report Lands For Intel's Vulkan Driver   Intel   2017-09-12
Mesa 17.1.9 Released For Those Not Yet On Mesa 17.2   Mesa   2017-09-09
RADV Vulkan Driver Now Has Working Support For Radeon RX Vega GPUs   Vulkan   2017-09-06
Mesa 17.2 Officially Released   Mesa   2017-09-04
RADV Driver Enables Command Buffer Chaining, Boosts Dota 2 Performance   Radeon   2017-09-04
Intel Vulkan & OpenGL Kabylake Benchmarks With Linux 4.13, Mesa 17.3-dev   Vulkan   2017-08-31
LLVMpipe & OpenSWR OpenGL Riding Off Threadripper   AMD   2017-08-30
Intel Lands Vulkan External Fences Support   Intel   2017-08-29
Only SPIR-V & KHR_no_error Are Left Blocking OpenGL 4.6 In Mesa   Mesa   2017-08-25
VK_KHX_multiview Patches For RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2017-08-23
VC5 Gallium3D Driver Close To Merging To Mainline Mesa   Mesa   2017-08-22
RadeonSI Gets Performance Boost For Dawn of War III   Linux Gaming   2017-08-22
Intel Gets Back To Working On Their OpenGL Shader Cache   Intel   2017-08-19
Mesa Temporarily Disabling Support For Vega In RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-08-17
Trying amd-staging-drm-next With The Radeon RX Vega   Radeon   2017-08-16
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Supports External Semaphores   Intel   2017-08-16
An Ubuntu Kernel Built With The Latest AMDGPU DC Support   AMD   2017-08-09
Mesa Patches For Two Of The Fairly Trivial OpenGL 4.6 Patches   Mesa   2017-08-08
Mesa 17.2 Release Candidate 3 Arrives   Mesa   2017-08-07
Several RADV Radeon Vulkan Fixes Land In Mesa Git   Mesa   2017-08-07
RadeonSI Gets Memory Objects Support In Mesa Git, Last Bit For SteamVR   Valve   2017-08-06
Leasing Support Revised For X.Org Server / RADV, For SteamVR On Linux   Valve   2017-08-02
RadeonSI Lands Another OpenGL 4.6 Extension, SISCHED For DriConf   Mesa   2017-08-02
Marek Might Have Yet Another Performance Tweak: GCN Tile Swizzle   Mesa   2017-08-01
Ryzen, Windows 10 & Laptop Survey Piqued Linux Users In July   Phoronix   2017-08-01
ARB_gl_spirv Is The Main Obstacle For Mesa Drivers Supporting OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2017-07-31
AMD Lands Experimental NIR Support In RadeonSI   Mesa   2017-07-31
Mesa 17.2 Has Been Branched   Mesa   2017-07-24
Ubuntu 17.10 Release Schedule Published   Ubuntu   2017-04-21