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Mesa 21.3 Articles & Reviews

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX / ASUS ROG Strix G15 Is A Nicer Experience On Ubuntu 21.10   Operating Systems   2021-10-07
Radeon Software 21.30 PRO vs. Mesa 21.3-devel + Linux 5.15 Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2021-10-06
Zink Mesa 21.3-dev Benchmarks - Increasingly Capable Of Running OpenGL Games Atop Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-08-23

Mesa 21.3 Linux & Open-Source News

Linux NTFS, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Mesa 22.1 & Other April Open-Source Excitement   Phoronix   2022-05-01
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ready With Mesa 22.0, Early Intel Arc Graphics Enabled & Amber Added   Mesa   2022-04-06
Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Adds KHR_ray_query Support   Radeon   2022-03-13
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Fix Allowing More Newer & Notable Games To Correctly Render   Intel   2022-02-23
Firefox Gets AV1 VA-API Acceleration Sorted Out   Mozilla   2022-01-18
Mesa's RADV Driver Lands Workaround For Flickering Issue With F1 2021   Linux Gaming   2022-01-01
Mesa 21.3.3 Released With Fixes For Old ATI R300~R500 GPUs, RADV Fixes Too   Mesa   2021-12-29
Mesa 21.2.6 Released As Likely The Last Of The Series   Mesa   2021-11-25
Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink   Mesa   2021-11-17
Mesa 21.3-rc5 Released With Numerous Intel / AMD / Zink Fixes   Mesa   2021-11-11
Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes   Mesa   2021-11-04
Linux I/O Optimizations, AMD Improvements, NVIDIA GBM Excited Linux Users Last Month   Phoronix   2021-11-01
Intel's i965 Mesa Classic OpenGL Driver Will Stick Around A Bit Longer   Mesa   2021-10-29
Mesa 21.3-rc3 Released With Many Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Fixes   Mesa   2021-10-27
RadeonSI Lands Another "Very Large" Optimization To Further Boost SPECViewPerf   Radeon   2021-10-19
RadeonSI Enables NGG Shader Culling For Navi 1x Consumer GPUs   Radeon   2021-10-19
Intel Linux Driver Lands Tessellation/Geometry Distribution Feature For Xe-HPG   Intel   2021-10-14
Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling   Mesa   2021-10-13
Mesa 21.3 Fixes Issue Of Some Games Having Transparency Issues Under Wayland   Mesa   2021-10-13
Mesa 21.3 Enables NGG Culling By Default For RDNA2 GPUs   Radeon   2021-10-08
Radeon Gallium3D Picks Up A Nice Performance Optimization For iGPU/dGPU PRIME Setups   Radeon   2021-10-07
Intel Removes ASTC Hardware From Gen12.5+ Graphics   Intel   2021-10-07
RadeonSI Lands Another Big Overhead Optimization - "Substantially" Helps In Some Cases   Mesa   2021-10-04
Mesa 21.3 RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Ray-Tracing Support For Older AMD Radeon GPUs   Radeon   2021-10-04
Mesa 21.2.3 Released As A Small Update To This Graphics Driver Stack   Mesa   2021-09-29
RadeonSI Driver Merges NGG Improvements, Other Optimizations For Mesa 21.3   Radeon   2021-09-28
Lavapipe Mesa Software Driver Enables Vulkan 1.2 Support   Mesa   2021-09-27
Mesa Merge Pending For Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Older AMD GPUs   Mesa   2021-09-22
Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large"   Mesa   2021-09-22
Mesa 21.3 Lands Initial Radeon Ray-Tracing Support In Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2021-09-21
Multiple Games Are Now Working With RADV's Ray-Tracing Code   Mesa   2021-09-17
Mesa's LLVMpipe + Lavapipe Land FP16 Support   Mesa   2021-09-16
Microsoft Adds An EGL Implementation To Mesa For Windows   Mesa   2021-09-15
RadeonSI Lands Big Batch Of Improvements To Lower CPU Overhead   Radeon   2021-09-14
Mesa Lands Option That Can Help XWayland-Based Gaming On The Steam Deck   Mesa   2021-09-13
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Tackling Support For More Games   Mesa   2021-09-13
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
Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Now Part Of Mesa's Default Drivers To Build   Intel   2021-09-01
Debian 11, Valve Happenings, Linux 5.14 & More Excitement From August   Phoronix   2021-09-01
Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan   Mesa   2021-08-31
Experimental Ray-Tracing For Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Nears Upstream Mesa   Radeon   2021-08-30
Intel Lands Initial Code For Mesh Shaders Within Mesa   Intel   2021-08-28
AMD's Open-Source Mesa Driver Continues To Be Ruthlessly Optimized For Workstation Performance   Radeon   2021-08-24
Mesa 21.2.1 Released With "Nice Changes For Almost Everyone"   Mesa   2021-08-19
Zink Now Supports OpenGL Compatibility Contexts - Allowing More Games/Apps To Work   Linux Gaming   2021-08-18
Zink Suballocator Lands In Mesa - "Over 1000%" Performance Increase For Some Games   Mesa   2021-08-17
VA-API AV1 Decode Lands In Mesa 21.3 Gallium3D   Mesa   2021-08-17
Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support   Mesa   2021-08-17
AV1 VA-API Acceleration Coming For AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Linux Users   Radeon   2021-08-13
RADV Lands Fast Clear Improvements, Helping RDNA With VKD3D-Proton   Radeon   2021-08-10
Gallium Nine Lands Threaded Context Support, Other Improvements   Mesa   2021-08-07
OpenGL Drivers In 2021 Still Sadly Benefit From Faking Their Driver Name / GPU   Mesa   2021-07-30
Lavapipe Keeps Tacking On Features, LLVMpipe Lands New Rasterizer With 2~3x Faster 2D   Mesa   2021-07-29
Intel's Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Driver Now Supports Threaded Shader Compilation   Intel   2021-07-28
H.264 SVC / Temporal Encoding Wired Up For AMD's Linux Graphics Driver   Radeon   2021-07-26
LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported   Mesa   2021-07-21
Squeezing More Performance Out Of Intel Tiger Lake Xe Graphics By Using Mesa Git   Intel   2021-07-18