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Mesa 19.0 Articles & Reviews

Intel's Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Seeing Minor Performance Gains With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-26
The RadeonSI/RADV Performance With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-25
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
The Performance Benefits To Running AMD's Radeon VII With Linux 5.0 + Mesa 19.0   Display Drivers   2019-02-07
NVIDIA vs. Radeon Linux 5.0 + Mesa 19.0 Drivers - 14-Way Gaming GPU Comparison   Linux Gaming   2019-01-29
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
The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-20
Radeon Software 18.50 vs. Linux 4.20 + Mesa 19 Benchmarks On The AMD RX 590   Display Drivers   2018-12-18
1080p Linux Gaming Performance - NVIDIA 415.22 vs. Mesa 19.0-devel RADV/RadeonSI   Linux Gaming   2018-12-16
The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux Driver Performance At The End Of 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-10
Radeon Vulkan Driver Benchmarks: AMDVLK 2018.4.2 vs. AMDGPU-PRO 18.40 vs. Mesa 18.2/19.0   Display Drivers   2018-11-25

Mesa 19.0 Linux & Open-Source News

The Vulkan API Is Now Five Years Old And Enjoying Phenomenal Success   Vulkan   2021-02-16
Android-x86 9.0 Nearing Release - RC1 Brings Experimental Vulkan, Text-Based Installer   Google   2019-11-15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Now Officially Available For Linux   Linux Gaming   2019-11-05
Radeon Graphics, Zombieload & Kernel Changes Intrigued Open-Source Fans In H1-2019   Phoronix   2019-07-09
Mesa 19.1.1 Released - Led By RADV & Intel Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-06-25
Mesa 19.0.7 Now Available As The Last Of The Series   Mesa   2019-06-25
AMDVLK Still Hasn't Yet Adopted FreeSync Support   Radeon   2019-06-18
RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Fixes For Vega M Hardware   Radeon   2019-06-13
Mesa 19.1 Released With Experimental Intel Gallium3D, Other New GL/VLK Drivers Too   Mesa   2019-06-11
Zombieload, RHEL 8.0, Linux 5.2 & GCC Happenings Dominated May   Free Software   2019-05-31
Total War: Three Kingdoms Sees Same-Day Linux Release   Linux Gaming   2019-05-23
Mesa 19.0.5 Released As The Series Approaches The End   Mesa   2019-05-21
Mesa 19.0.4 Released With Numerous RADV, RadeonSI & Intel Fixes   Mesa   2019-05-09
RadeonSI Adds Workaround To Deal With Incorrect Rendering In Counter-Strike: GO   Radeon   2019-05-07
ZFS On Linux, Intel Cascadelake, Linux 5.1/5.2 Excited Phoronix Readers In April   Phoronix   2019-05-01
Fedora 30 Now Available With GNOME 3.32, Flicker-Free Boot, Zchunk Metadata   Fedora   2019-04-30
AMD's FreeSync Linux Code Continues To Be Improved Upon For Low Frame-Rate Scenarios   Radeon   2019-04-26
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync For Mesa 19.1   Radeon   2019-04-23
Ubuntu 19.04 Released As A Big Linux Desktop Improvement Thanks To GNOME 3.32   Ubuntu   2019-04-18
The Current RADV/RadeonSI Performance With Mesa 19.1 + Linux 5.1   Mesa   2019-04-13
Mesa 19.0.2 Released With A Few RadeonSI, RADV, V3D Fixes   Mesa   2019-04-11
Trying Out The Radeon VII On Ubuntu 19.04 As Well As Linux 5.1 + Mesa 19.1   Radeon   2019-04-10
Mesa 18.3.6 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2019-04-05
Intel Comet Lake Support Merged For Mesa 19.1   Mesa   2019-04-02
Gentoo-Based Sabayon 19.03 - Finally Supports Full Disk Encryption, Python 3 Default   Operating Systems   2019-04-01
Ubuntu 19.04 Beta Now Available For Testing With Linux 5.0 + GNOME Shell 3.32 Experience   Ubuntu   2019-03-28
Mesa 19.0.1 Released - Mostly Made Up Of RADV Fixes   Mesa   2019-03-27
Mesa 18.3.6 Is Coming With Over A Dozen Fixes To End Out The Series   Mesa   2019-03-27
Fedora's Mesa Drivers Have Been Running Slower As They Were Accidentally Debug Builds   Mesa   2019-03-26
Mesa 18.3.5 Released With Intel/Radeon Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-03-18
Solus 4 Officially Released With Updated Budgie Desktop, Linux 4.20 Kernel   Operating Systems   2019-03-18
Mesa 19.0 Released With Many Improvements To The Open-Source Vulkan/OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2019-03-13
Mesa 19.0-RC7 Released With Freedreno, Gallium Nine Fixes   Mesa   2019-03-07
xf86-video-amdgpu 19.0 Brings FreeSync VRR Bit, TearFree Fixes   Radeon   2019-03-06
Enabling AMD Radeon FreeSync On Linux 5.0   Radeon   2019-03-04
Linux 5.0, Radeon VII, Intel Iris Driver & Other Exciting Milestones In February   Phoronix   2019-02-28
Mesa 19.0-RC6 Released With Many Intel & Radeon Fixes   Mesa   2019-02-26
Mageia 7.0 Beta 2 Released - Powered By Linux 4.20, Mesa 19.0-rc   Operating Systems   2019-02-24
The Most Interesting Highlights To The Linux 5.0 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2019-02-22
Intel's Shiny Vulkan Overlay Layer Lands In Mesa 19.1 - Provides A HUD With Driver Stats   Intel   2019-02-21
Mesa 19.0-RC5 Released As The Cycle Drags Into Overtime   Mesa   2019-02-20
Mesa 18.3.4 Brings VA-API VP9 Improvements, More Coffeelake/Icelake IDs For Intel   Mesa   2019-02-18
Mesa 19.0-RC4 Released With More Fixes   Mesa   2019-02-13
Mesa 19.0-RC3 Released But It's A Dud   Mesa   2019-02-12
Radeon VII (Vega 20) Firmware Support Lands In Linux-Firmware.Git   Radeon   2019-02-12
RADV Vulkan Driver Wires In EXT_buffer_device_address Support For Mesa 19.1   Radeon   2019-02-07
AMDGPU Fixes For Linux 5.0 Include FreeSync/VRR Properties For eDP Displays   Radeon   2019-02-06
Mesa 19.0-RC2 Released With Intel Transform Feedback Fix, Freedreno & VC4/V3D Fixes   Mesa   2019-02-05
Mesa 18.3.3 Released With Fixes For RadeonSI/RADV, OpenGL Driver Bugs   Mesa   2019-01-31
Mesa 19.0-RC1 Released With FreeSync Bits, Soft FP64, Many Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2019-01-30
Intel's Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL 4.6 With Final SPIR-V Additions Under Review   Intel   2019-01-30
NVIDIA Linux Beta Rolling Out "G-SYNC Compatible" FreeSync Monitor Support   NVIDIA   2019-01-30
RADV Lands Last Minute Improvements In Mesa 19.0, Introduces VK_EXT_memory_priority   Mesa   2019-01-29
Intel's Linux Driver Stack Continues Getting Plumbed For FP16 Visuals / Wide Color Gamut   Intel   2019-01-29
The New Features On Deck For Mesa 19.0: Vulkan Additions, FreeSync, Soft FP64 & More   Mesa   2019-01-28
EGL_MESA_query_driver Merged Into Mesa 19.0, ADriConf Looking For Improvement Ideas   Mesa   2019-01-26
Freedreno Lands An A2xx NIR Backend, Other Improvements For Mesa 19.0   Mesa   2019-01-23
Intel Lands Transform Feedback Support In Their Vulkan Driver For Mesa 19.0   Intel   2019-01-22
Mesa 19.0 Can Cut In Half The Amount Of Memory For Team Fortress 2   Mesa   2019-01-19
Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Conditional Rendering, Draw Indirect Count   Intel   2019-01-18
Mesa 18.3.2 Released With Many Fixes As Users Encouraged To Upgrade   Mesa   2019-01-17
Mesa 19.0 Deprecates GNU Autotools Build System In Favor Of Meson   Mesa   2019-01-16
Broadcom's V3D Gallium Driver Picks Up New Features Ahead Of Mesa 19.0   Mesa   2019-01-16
Mesa 18.3.2 Is Finally En Route With 78+ Changes   Mesa   2019-01-15
RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Memory Budget Information For Mesa 19.0   Mesa   2019-01-15
VKD3D Tapping Vulkan Transform Feedback For Direct3D 12 Stream Output   WINE   2019-01-14
Mesa 19.0 Picks Up Intel NIR Caching Patches To Help With Shader Re-Compiles   Mesa   2019-01-11
"Soft" FP64/INT64 Implementations Merged To Mesa, Intel Driver Already Making Use   Mesa   2019-01-10
Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Aiming For Transform Feedback In Mesa 19.0, Helping DXVK   Intel   2019-01-09
SPIR-V Clover Support Might Still Land For Mesa 19.0, Working Towards Nouveau OpenCL   Mesa   2019-01-08
Mesa Driver Releases For 2019 Get Plotted Out From 19.0 To 19.3   Mesa   2019-01-08
From The Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking Forward To In 2019   Linux Kernel   2019-01-02
Mesa RadeonSI Lands FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync Support That Pair With Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-12-28
Mesa Picks Up Faster Support For S3TC Decoding Using LLVM   Mesa   2018-12-22
RADV Driver Patches Revive shaderStorageImageMultisample - Useful For DXVK   Mesa   2018-12-20
Freedreno Gets Patches For A2xx NIR Backend   Mesa   2018-12-20
A Look At The LLVMpipe OpenGL Performance On Mesa 19.0 With A 64C/128T Server   Mesa   2018-12-16
Mesa 19.0 RADV Vulkan Driver Gets New Fixes To Help DXVK Gaming   Mesa   2018-12-13
More Radeon RX 590 Ubuntu Benchmarks - See How Your Linux GPU Performance Compares   Radeon   2018-12-09
Freedreno Gallium3D Lands MSAA Support For Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series   Mesa   2018-12-09
Intel's OpenGL Driver Will Now Make Better Use Of KHR_debug For Shader Debugging   Intel   2018-12-08
Mesa 18.3 Released With Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements, New GPU Support   Mesa   2018-12-07
The Radeon RX 590 Is Finally Running Strong On Linux   Radeon   2018-12-06
Intel Vulkan Driver Gets Patches For New KHR_shader_float16_int8 Functionality   Intel   2018-12-04
Mesa Developers Move Closer To Dropping Autotools Build System In Favor Of Meson   Mesa   2018-12-04
AMDGPU Linux 4.21 Changes Queued With FreeSync, DC ABM, KFD Compute For Vega12/Polaris12   Radeon   2018-12-01
Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month   Phoronix   2018-11-30
AMDGPU FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync Is Set To Land For Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-11-30
AMD Wires In A Few More Extensions For Their Open-Source OpenGL Driver   Mesa   2018-11-29
A Look At The AMDGPU+RADV Gaming Performance Boost With Linux 4.20   Radeon   2018-11-26
Radeon Vulkan Driver Gets A Significant Performance Optimization For Pre-4.20 Kernels   Radeon   2018-11-26
Mesa 18.3-RC4 Released With A Handful Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-11-22
RadeonSI Lands Zen CCX/Thread Optimization For GLThread Mode   Radeon   2018-11-21
RADV Lands Another Fast Clear Optimization, Helping An Operation 18x   Radeon   2018-11-19
The Open-Source AMD Linux Driver Stack Hitting Problems With The Radeon RX 590   Radeon   2018-11-16
Mesa 18.3-RC3 Released With RADV Fixes, Drops Zen L3 Thread Pinning   Mesa   2018-11-16
RADV Vulkan Driver To Enable Vega Primitive Binning By Default - Helps Performance   Radeon   2018-11-15
The Newest Mesa NIR/SPIR-V Code For Handling OpenCL Kernels   Mesa   2018-11-15
Ubuntu 19.04 Development Starts Off With Python 3.7, Merged Usr Directories   Ubuntu   2018-11-13
Mesa Drops Support For AMD Zen L3 Thread Pinning, Will Develop New Approach   Mesa   2018-11-12
Gallium D3D9 "Nine" Support Gets New Patches To Help Fight Lag Without Tearing   Mesa   2018-11-11
More AMD Zen Microarchitecture Tuning For Mesa Is Likely Ahead   Mesa   2018-11-08
The Anticipated Linux Driver Requirements For The Radeon Instinct MI50 / MI60 (Vega 20)   Radeon   2018-11-08
Mesa Gets Patches For EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture, Freedreno A6xx MSAA   Mesa   2018-11-07
Mesa 18.3 Feature Development Wraps Up While Mesa 19.0 Opens Up On Master   Mesa   2018-11-01
Mesa 18.3 Gets A Release Date Towards The End Of November   Mesa   2018-10-23
AMD Posts Latest Open-Source Linux Patches For FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync / VRR   Radeon   2018-10-11