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OpenGL 3 Articles & Reviews

Open-Source Radeon 2D Performance Is Better With Ubuntu 14.10   Display Drivers   2014-10-25
Open-Source Graphics Performance With Unvanquished   Linux Gaming   2014-04-08
Mesa 10.1 Released With Many Open-Source Driver Improvements   Display Drivers   2014-03-05
Intel Linux Driver Almost Neck-And-Neck With Windows 8.1   Operating Systems   2013-11-28
AMD Radeon, NVIDIA GeForce Linux Comparison For July 2013   Graphics Cards   2013-07-23
NVIDIA/AMD OpenGL Benchmarks Of Unigine Valley   Linux Gaming   2013-02-13
Preview: Intel's Open-Source Driver Can Beat Mac OS X   Display Drivers   2012-01-24
Intel Sandy Bridge Shines With Mesa 8.0   Display Drivers   2012-01-18
Radeon Gallium3D With Mesa 8.0: Goes Up & Down   Display Drivers   2012-01-12
VirtualBox 4.1 OpenGL 3D Guest Performance   Display Drivers   2011-11-08
XDC2011 Chicago Recap: Open-Source Graphics, GPGPU, OpenGL 3.0   Events   2011-09-20
X.Org XDC2011 Chicago Preview   Events   2011-09-06
Testing Out Mesa's GLSL-To-TGSI Translator   Display Drivers   2011-07-21
Some Good & Bad News For The Nouveau Driver   Display Drivers   2011-01-10
Is AMD's New 2D Acceleration Architecture Still Slow?   Display Drivers   2010-06-20
Unigine Heaven Shows What Linux Gaming Can Look Like   Linux Gaming   2010-03-23
NVIDIA 190.16 Driver Brings OpenGL 3.2 To Linux   Display Drivers   2009-07-22
S3 Graphics Releases Linux Driver With OpenGL 3.0, VA-API   Display Drivers   2009-02-27
AMD Catalyst 9.1 Brings OpenGL 3.0   Display Drivers   2009-01-29
NVIDIA Delivers Beta OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2008-10-24
NVIDIA 177.67 Display Driver   Display Drivers   2008-08-19
OpenGL 3.0, GLSL 1.30 Released   Display Drivers   2008-08-11

OpenGL 3 Linux & Open-Source News

Meta Releases IGL 1.0 As Intermediate Graphics Library Built Atop Vulkan & OpenGL   Free Software   2024-07-11
Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-01-31
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions   Vulkan   2024-01-25
Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features   Apple   2024-01-14
Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features   Mesa   2024-01-11
GTK Lands Their New Unified GPU Renderer, Vulkan Build Enabled By Default   GNOME   2024-01-08
Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple Silicon Hardware   Mesa   2023-11-07
Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers   Raspberry Pi   2023-10-19
Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library "IGL" Built Atop Vulkan, OpenGL   Free Software   2023-07-07
Imagination GPUs With PVR Vulkan + Zink Working Well For OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2023-07-06
Mesa 23.2 Receives Asahi AGX Gallium3D Changes For OpenGL 3.1 + GLES 3.0   Mesa   2023-06-07
Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux   Apple   2023-06-06
GNOME's Mutter Drops Legacy OpenGL Driver Support   GNOME   2023-02-21
Asahi Gallium3D Driver Enables Mesa Shader Disk Cache Support   Apple   2023-02-04
Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics   Mesa   2022-11-30
Godot 4.0 Beta 5 Brings Renderer Improvements, OpenGL To OpenXR   Linux Gaming   2022-11-16
Rust-Written Apple DRM Linux Kernel Driver Renders First Cube   Apple   2022-09-24
DDNet Cooperative Platformer Game Adds Vulkan Renderer   Linux Gaming   2022-09-18
Godot 4.0 Alpha 16 Released With More Vulkan Renderer Improvements   Linux Gaming   2022-09-07
PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Adds Support For The TI AM62 SoC   Mesa   2022-06-21
Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver   Mesa   2022-05-18
Godot 4.0 Alpha 8 Game Engine Released With Some Nice Improvements   Linux Gaming   2022-05-12
Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen   Mesa   2022-04-14
Intel "Crocus" Driver For Old iGPUs Bumps OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support   Intel   2022-02-09
Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Driver Now Allows OpenGL 4.2   Mesa   2022-02-04
Microsoft Lands D3D12 Compute Support In Mesa 22.0   Microsoft   2022-01-11
Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Gallium3D Code Adds Support For OpenGL SSBOs   Microsoft   2021-12-28
OpenCL 3.0.8 Released With New Extension To Help AI Inferencing   Standards   2021-07-12
Unvanquished 0.52.1 Brings Rendering Fixes, Flatpak For This Promising Open-Source Game   Linux Gaming   2021-06-21
Mesa 21.0 Released With Numerous RADV Improvements, New Vulkan Extensions, Many Fixes   Mesa   2021-03-11
The Dark Mod 2.09 Released With New OpenGL Rendering Backend   Linux Gaming   2021-02-15
Mesa 21.0 Gearing Up To Ship As Soon As Next Week For Latest Open-Source GPU Drivers   Mesa   2021-01-29
Freedreno In Mesa 21.0 Flips On OpenGL 3.3 Support   Mesa   2021-01-07
Zink With Mesa 21.0 Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1   Mesa   2021-01-05
Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance   Mesa   2021-01-01
Mesa's Freedreno Gallium3D Now Exposes OpenGL 3.2 Support   Mesa   2020-12-29
Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2020-12-03
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Hitting ~95% Speed Of Native OpenGL Driver Performance   Mesa   2020-11-06
Qt 6.0's Shiny New Features For Qt Quick 3D   Qt   2020-11-04
Panfrost Gallium3D To Focus On Better Performance, OpenGL 3.1 Support   Mesa   2020-11-03
LLVMpipe Is Now Officially Conformant With OpenGL 4.5   Mesa   2020-10-30
Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan   Mesa   2020-10-17
Warzone 2100 Lands Vulkan Renderer, Adaptive V-Sync For 20+ Year Old Game   Linux Gaming   2020-09-26
Experimental Zink Patches Get OpenGL 4.6 Running Atop Vulkan   Vulkan   2020-08-24
LLVMpipe Has Patches Bringing It To OpenGL 4.5 Support   Mesa   2020-08-17
Mesa 20.2 Development Ends After Many New Features Land   Mesa   2020-08-06
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2020-07-22
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0   Mesa   2020-07-02
Zink GL-On-Vulkan Driver Approaching OpenGL 3.1 Support   Mesa   2020-06-29
Zink Is Now OpenGL 3.0 Complete For Generic GL Over Vulkan   Mesa   2020-06-18
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Now Exposes GLSL 1.30   Mesa   2020-06-16
LLVMpipe Gains Support For On-Disk Shader Cache   Mesa   2020-06-10
Zink GL-Over-Vulkan Now Supports Conditional Rendering - Stepping Towards OpenGL 3.0   Mesa   2020-05-11
Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support   Mesa   2020-05-06
Microsoft + Collabora Working To Map OpenGL/OpenCL Over DirectX 12   Microsoft   2020-03-24
Intel Working On OpenGL 4.x Support For Their OpenSWR Software Rasterizer In Mesa   Intel   2020-03-24
VMware Plumbing OpenGL 4.x Support For The VMWGFX Graphics Stack   Virtualization   2020-03-23
Zink In Mesa For OpenGL Over Vulkan Should Be Back To Supporting OpenGL 3.0 Soon   Mesa   2020-02-08
Zink Is Moving Closer To OpenGL 3.0 Support Over Vulkan   Mesa   2020-01-04
Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code   Intel   2019-12-11
Zink Merged Into Mesa 19.3 For Offering OpenGL Over Vulkan   Mesa   2019-10-28
Zink Is Almost In Mesa For Offering OpenGL 2.1 / GLES 2.0 Over Vulkan   Mesa   2019-10-24
Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions   Mesa   2019-08-27
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support   Intel   2019-08-04
Collabora Still Investing In "Zink" For OpenGL Over Vulkan, But Back To GL 2.1   Vulkan   2019-07-26
LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Implementation Picks Up More GL4 Extensions   Mesa   2019-07-08
Intel UHD Graphics 630 With Gallium3D Yields Roughly Radeon HD 5750 Linux Performance   Intel   2019-05-15
Mesa 19.1 To Expose EXT_gpu_shader4 Support   Mesa   2019-04-25
Zink Is Moving Ahead In 2019 As Mesa-Based OpenGL-Over-Vulkan   Mesa   2019-02-06
"Soft" FP64/INT64 Implementations Merged To Mesa, Intel Driver Already Making Use   Mesa   2019-01-10
ETLegacy Continues Work On New Renderer 16 Years After Enemy Territory   Linux Gaming   2018-12-30
Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2018-12-26
SuperTux 0.6 Released With OpenGL 3.3 & ES 2.0 Support   Linux Gaming   2018-12-23
A Look At The LLVMpipe OpenGL Performance On Mesa 19.0 With A 64C/128T Server   Mesa   2018-12-16
Mesa 18.3 Released With Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements, New GPU Support   Mesa   2018-12-07
AMD Wires In A Few More Extensions For Their Open-Source OpenGL Driver   Mesa   2018-11-29
The Shiny New Features Of Mesa 18.3 For Open-Source Intel / Radeon Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2018-11-13
The Current Performance Of Virgl3D, Future Plans   Mesa   2018-10-01
VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Enables OpenGL 3.3 Compatibility Profile Support   Virtualization   2018-09-22
RadeonSI Compatibility Profile Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 On Mesa 18.3   Mesa   2018-08-29
RadeonSI Gets Patches For OpenGL 4.5 Compat, Workaround For No Man's Sky On Steam Play   Radeon   2018-08-24
Mesa 18.2 Is Releasing Soon With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2018-08-21
Marek Tackles EXT_gpu_shader4 Support In Gallium3D For Old Games/Apps   Mesa   2018-08-08
VKGL: An Effort For OpenGL Core Profile Support Over Vulkan   Vulkan   2018-08-05
Mesa 18.2 Is On The Final Days Of Development With Many New Features Coming   Mesa   2018-07-26
Freedreno Gallium3D Now Exposes Adreno A5xx Performance Counters   Mesa   2018-07-19
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War Released With Launch-Day Linux Support   Linux Gaming   2018-07-12
OpenGL 4.5 Compat Being Worked On For RadeonSI, Helping Out No Man's Sky & Others   Radeon   2018-07-04
Mesa 18.2 Git Lands RadeonSI OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile Support   Mesa   2018-06-29
RadeonSI GL 4.4 Compat Patches Make Wolfenstein & Doom With OpenGL Happy In Wine   Mesa   2018-06-28
Freedreno Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Support, Not Far From OpenGL 3.3   Mesa   2018-06-22
RadeonSI Compatibility Profile Is Close To OpenGL 4.4 Support   Radeon   2018-06-22
RadeonSI Lands OpenGL 3.3 Compatibility Profile Support   Mesa   2018-06-18
OpenGL Floating Point Textures No Longer Encumbered By Patents, Enabled In Mesa   Mesa   2018-06-18
VirGL Now Capable Of OpenGL 4.1 With Latest Mesa   Virtualization   2018-06-11
Tracking Mesa's VirGL OpenGL Features   Virtualization   2018-06-07
OpenGL Compatibility Profile Updates Land In Mesa 18.2-dev   Mesa   2018-05-30
Geometry & Tessellation Shaders For Mesa's OpenGL Compatibility Context   Mesa   2018-05-24
Mesa 18.1 Released With Intel Shader Cache Default, OpenGL 3.1 ARB_compatibility   Mesa   2018-05-18
The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides   Mesa   2018-05-04
Blender 2.8 Is Going To Be Very Exciting, Requires OpenGL 3.3+   Free Software   2018-03-22
Airlie Moves Ahead With His Plan For Soft FP64 For Mesa, OpenGL 4.3 For Evergreen GPUs   Mesa   2018-03-13
Mesa 18.1 Receives OpenGL 3.1 With ARB_compatibility For Gallium3D Drivers   Mesa   2018-02-23
Marek Updates OpenGL 3.1 ARB_compatibility Support For Mesa   Mesa   2018-02-15
Some Early Bits Of The "Soft FP64" Infrastructure Will Be Mainlined Soon In Mesa   Mesa   2018-02-01
R600 Gallium3D Now Effectively At OpenGL 4.4, A Nudge Away From GL 4.5   Mesa   2018-01-28
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Driver Nearly At OpenGL 4.5, Remaining Bits Being Finished   Mesa   2018-01-24
R600g "Soft" FP64 Shows Signs Of Life, Enabling Older GPUs To Have OpenGL 4 In 2018   Mesa   2018-01-19
Purism Eyeing The i.MX8M For The Librem 5 Smartphone, Issues First Status Update   Hardware   2018-01-16
R600 Gallium3D Gets More Fixes, Experimental SB Tessellation Support   Mesa   2018-01-10
Even With An Intel Core i9 7980XE, LLVMpipe Is Still Slow   Mesa   2018-01-02
OpenGL 4.3 Support Lands In R600 Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2017-12-18
The Top Mesa News Of 2017   Mesa   2017-12-03
Compute Shader & GLSL 4.30 Support For R600 Gallium3D   Mesa   2017-11-29
R600 Gallium3D Picks Up Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension   Radeon   2017-11-21
Freedreno Gallium3D Supports A Fair Amount Of OpenGL 4.x   Mesa   2017-11-18
R600 Gallium3D Shader Image Support Lands, Other R600g Patches Pending   Mesa   2017-11-17
OpenGL 4.2 Support Could Soon Land For AMD Cayman GPUs On R600g   Mesa   2017-11-14
Geometry Shader Support For RadeonSI's NIR Back-End   Radeon   2017-11-10
OpenGL Atomic Counters Land For R600 Gallium3D   Radeon   2017-11-10
R600 Gallium3D Receiving Some New Improvements By David Airlie   Mesa   2017-11-03
Etnaviv Gallium3D Reaches OpenGL 2.1   Mesa   2017-10-30
Marek Begins Working On Possible OpenGL Compatibility Profile For Mesa   Mesa   2017-10-24
Purism Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Campaign Set To End At Around $2 Million   Hardware   2017-10-22
Occlusion Queries Land In Etnaviv For Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2017-10-20
Etnaviv Gallium3D Is Almost To OpenGL 2.0 Compliance   Mesa   2017-10-17
New Blender 2.8 Design Document Published   Free Software   2017-10-07
Spring RTS 104.0 Game Engine Brings Increased Performance, Better Stability   Linux Gaming   2017-09-26
LLVMpipe & OpenSWR OpenGL Riding Off Threadripper   AMD   2017-08-30
RadeonSI May Eventually Switch To NIR Completely   Mesa   2017-08-25
FP64 Support Revised For R600g Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2017-08-23
Trying Out RadeonSI's Experimental NIR Support   Mesa   2017-08-07
The Vulkan Feature List For Mesa   Mesa   2017-08-03
Godot 3.0 Reaches Alpha   Linux Gaming   2017-07-26
92 Patches Later: Experimental NIR Backend For RadeonSI   Radeon   2017-06-26
Cossacks 3 Is Now Available For Linux Gamers   Linux Gaming   2017-06-22
Airlie Is Looking At Tournier's Soft FP64 Work For R600-Rats   Mesa   2017-05-27
David Airlie Is Bringing OpenGL 4.2 To More R600 Gallium3D Hardware   Radeon   2017-05-24
61 New Patches Allow OpenGL 4.5 For Radeon RX Vega   Mesa   2017-04-24
Intel Ivy Bridge Gets OpenGL 4.2 On Mesa 17.1   Intel   2017-04-14
Radeon TONGA Sees Some Gains With AMDGPU DRM-Next 4.12   Radeon   2017-04-03
Radeon RX Vega Support Lands In Mesa 17.1 Git   Mesa   2017-03-30
140 Patches Posted To Wire Up Radeon RX Vega In RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2017-03-20
SWR Software Rasterizer Now Supports Geometry Shaders   Intel   2017-03-05
Patches For FP64 Support For OpenGL 3.0 GPUs On Mesa   Mesa   2017-03-03
OpenGL 4.0 Patches For Intel Ivy Bridge Revised   Mesa   2017-02-14
Mesa RFC Changes To Help Worms WMD, Tropico 5 & Crookz   Mesa   2017-02-10
Threaded GL Dispatch Code For Mesa Sent Out For Review   Mesa   2017-02-08
IORTCW Continues Letting Return to Castle Wolfenstein Live On As Open-Source   Linux Gaming   2017-01-22
Etnaviv Gallium3D Implements Enough To Expose OpenGL 2, Run Ioquake3   Mesa   2017-01-18