OpenGL 4 Articles & Reviews |
| Mesa 20.0 Is Imminent With New Intel OpenGL Default, Intel + RADV Vulkan 1.2, OpenGL 4.6 For RadeonSI | Display Drivers | 2020-02-19 |
| RadeonSI NIR Benchmarks Show Great Progress With Mesa 20.0 | Display Drivers | 2019-12-06 |
| Running The RadeonSI NIR Back-End With Mesa 19.1 Git | Display Drivers | 2019-02-10 |
| Nouveau Linux 4.14 + Mesa 17.4-dev vs. NVIDIA | Display Drivers | 2017-11-05 |
| OpenGL 4.6 Released With Vulkan/SPIR-V Ingestion, Parallel Shader Compiles & Finally AF | Software | 2017-07-31 |
| A Look At The Huge Performance Boosts With Nouveau Mesa 17.0-devel On Maxwell | Display Drivers | 2017-01-15 |
| Mesa 13.0 Released With Intel OpenGL 4.5, RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver | Display Drivers | 2016-11-01 |
| Mesa 12.0 Released With OpenGL 4.3 Support, Intel Vulkan & Many Other Features | Display Drivers | 2016-07-08 |
| Latest AMDGPU-PRO Ubuntu Linux Performance vs. NVIDIA, Including The GTX 1080 | Graphics Cards | 2016-06-09 |
| Intel Broadwell Graphics Are Much Faster With Mesa 11.3 | Display Drivers | 2016-05-18 |
| The Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Continued Evolving In 2015 | Display Drivers | 2015-12-28 |
| Proprietary vs. Linux Git, Mesa 11.2-devel, DRI3 For R600g/RadeonSI | Display Drivers | 2015-12-19 |
| With R600g Now Supporting OpenGL 4.1, See How The Open-Source Performance Compares To AMD Catalyst | Display Drivers | 2015-12-17 |
| Open-Source Mesa Drivers Now Supporting OpenGL 4.0+ | Display Drivers | 2015-07-23 |
| 22-Way AMD+NVIDIA Graphics Card Tests With Metro Redux On Steam For Linux | Linux Gaming | 2015-01-13 |
| AMD Catalyst 14.6 Does Slightly Better With APITest OpenGL Tests | Display Drivers | 2014-07-30 |
| NVIDIA Slaughters AMD Catalyst On Linux In OpenGL 4.x Micro-Benchmarks | Display Drivers | 2014-06-15 |
| AMD Catalyst 14.4 Brings Few Linux Performance Improvements | Display Drivers | 2014-04-23 |
| Intel Linux Driver Almost Neck-And-Neck With Windows 8.1 | Operating Systems | 2013-11-28 |
| Ubuntu 13.10 Can Outperform OS X 10.9 On Intel OpenGL | Operating Systems | 2013-07-18 |
| AMD FirePro V8800 2GB | Graphics Cards | 2010-04-12 |
OpenGL 4 Linux & Open-Source News |
| The Old Radeon "R600" Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Now Enables SPIR-V | Radeon | 2023-01-02 |
| Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver Support - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0 | Apple | 2022-12-07 |
| Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics | Mesa | 2022-11-30 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Now Allows OpenGL 4.5 For Adreno 600 Series GPUs | Mesa | 2022-11-02 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Outlook Brighter Due To GSP Firmware, But Major Challenges Remain | Nouveau | 2022-09-13 |
| Mesa Preparing Software Fallback For S3TC Texture Compression | Mesa | 2022-09-05 |
| Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year's End | Mesa | 2022-08-22 |
| Turnip Vulkan Driver Now Works With Zink For OpenGL 4.6, Approaching Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-07-26 |
| Mesa 22.1.1 Released With Many Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-06-01 |
| Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc5 Released With Dozens Of Fixes For Zink, RADV & Intel Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2022-05-11 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc3 Released With Backports For Intel Raptor Lake P, Zink/Kopper On Windows | Mesa | 2022-04-27 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Making Progress On Windows, X-Plane Looking To Use It | Mesa | 2022-04-20 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source Intel & AMD Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-03-09 |
| SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0 | Proprietary Software | 2022-03-03 |
| VMware Enabling VMWGFX 3D Support For AArch64 | Virtualization | 2022-03-03 |
| 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 |
| Mesa's "Dozen" Close To Providing Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 | Microsoft | 2022-02-03 |
| Mesa 22.0-rc1 Released With Many Radeon & Intel Linux GPU Driver Features, Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-02-02 |
| Microsoft's Direct3D 12 Code For Mesa Now Supports OpenGL Tessellation Functionality | Microsoft | 2022-01-26 |
| Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan Now Offers Broader OpenGL Coverage Than RadeonSI, Intel | Mesa | 2022-01-20 |
| VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Lands OpenGL 4.3 Support In Mesa 22.0 | Mesa | 2022-01-19 |
| Microsoft Lands D3D12 Compute Support In Mesa 22.0 | Microsoft | 2022-01-11 |
| Linux 5.17 GPU Updates: Raptor Lake, ADL-P Stable, Raspberry Pi [email protected], AMD Seamless Boot | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-07 |
| Zink Working On Sparse Textures, Other Improvements To Kick Off 2022 | Mesa | 2022-01-05 |
| Mesa 22.0 Zink Lands macOS Build Fix For OpenGL On Vulkan Via MoltenVK On Metal | Mesa | 2021-12-29 |
| Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Gallium3D Code Adds Support For OpenGL SSBOs | Microsoft | 2021-12-28 |
| Latest Linux 5.17 Graphics Drivers: "Every Single Patchset In This PR Is Awesome" | Linux Kernel | 2021-12-16 |
| Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink | Mesa | 2021-11-17 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Can Finally Render glxgears With Great Speed | Mesa | 2021-11-12 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes | Mesa | 2021-11-04 |
| Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Inches Closer To OpenGL 4.6 Conformance, More Games Working | Linux Gaming | 2021-10-29 |
| Vendors Including NVIDIA Talk Up New OpenCL Extensions For Vulkan Interop, NN Inference | Standards | 2021-10-19 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling | Mesa | 2021-10-13 |
| Microsoft's "CLOn12" Mesa Code Adds SPIR/SPIR-V Support | Mesa | 2021-09-23 |
| Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-08-31 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL Compatibility Contexts - Allowing More Games/Apps To Work | Linux Gaming | 2021-08-18 |
| Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support | Mesa | 2021-08-17 |
| LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported | Mesa | 2021-07-21 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL ES 3.2 Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-07-09 |
| Mesa's Exciting Milestones So Far In 2021 From Zink To Great Intel/AMD Open-Source Work | Mesa | 2021-06-27 |
| Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2021-05-05 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Correctly Rendering... Glxgears | Mesa | 2021-04-27 |
| Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features | Mesa | 2021-04-14 |
| The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021 | Mesa | 2021-03-29 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Still Has ~200 Patches To Land, More Performance Work | Mesa | 2021-03-19 |
| Mesa 21.0 Released With Numerous RADV Improvements, New Vulkan Extensions, Many Fixes | Mesa | 2021-03-11 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D Flips On OpenGL 4.5 For NIR Backend | Radeon | 2021-03-03 |
| With OpenGL 4.6 Achieved, Zink Working CTS Fixes, Substantial Performance Gains | Mesa | 2021-02-19 |
| Zink With Mesa 21.1 Now Advertises OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2021-02-16 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 Over Vulkan With Mesa 21.1 | Mesa | 2021-02-11 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Flips On ARB_gl_spirv, Help Sought For Lavapipe Windows Port | Mesa | 2021-02-11 |
| Zink On Mesa 21.1-devel Now Achieves OpenGL 4.3 Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-02-10 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Works Atop NVIDIA's Linux Driver | Mesa | 2021-02-03 |
| Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Now Supports OpenGL 4.2 With Mesa 21.1 | Mesa | 2021-01-21 |
| Zink With Mesa 21.0 Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1 | Mesa | 2021-01-05 |
| The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020 | NVIDIA | 2020-12-30 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Lands Tessellation Shader Support In Mesa 21.0 | Mesa | 2020-12-23 |
| Classic OSMesa Retires In Mesa 21.0 As The Worst Of The Software Rendering Paths | Mesa | 2020-12-11 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Development Now Being Done On RADV With Navi GPU | Radeon | 2020-11-28 |
| Valve Now Funding Blumenkrantz - Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan To Continue | Mesa | 2020-11-23 |
| Mesa 21.0 Feature Development Opens For Release In Q1-2021 | Mesa | 2020-11-09 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Hitting ~95% Speed Of Native OpenGL Driver Performance | Mesa | 2020-11-06 |
| Zink Seeing macOS Support For OpenGL Over Vulkan Then MoltenVK On Top Of Metal | Vulkan | 2020-11-02 |
| 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 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Nearly At ~69% Of Intel's Native OpenGL Driver | Mesa | 2020-10-16 |
| Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support | Mesa | 2020-09-29 |
| After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed | Mesa | 2020-09-27 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan With Unigine Heaven Seeing Improved Performance | Vulkan | 2020-09-25 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Seeing Some 50~100% FPS Gains | Mesa | 2020-09-19 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Driver - Performance Is Turning Out Better Than Expected | Vulkan | 2020-09-08 |
| Mesa 20.2 Aiming For Release Next Week As Big Advancement For Open-Source GPU Drivers | Mesa | 2020-09-03 |
| Mesa 20.2 Should Be Released In About Two Weeks - LLVMpipe OpenGL 4.5 Enabled | Mesa | 2020-08-28 |
| Experimental Zink Patches Get OpenGL 4.6 Running Atop Vulkan | Vulkan | 2020-08-24 |
| OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2 | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| VALLIUM Merged Into Mesa 20.3 As Vulkan Front-End To Gallium3D | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| LLVMpipe Has Patches Bringing It To OpenGL 4.5 Support | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| Mesa 20.2-RC2 Released With Many Fixes For RadeonSI + RADV Drivers | Mesa | 2020-08-12 |
| 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 Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs | Mesa | 2020-07-06 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0 | Mesa | 2020-07-02 |
| LLVMpipe Gains Support For On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2020-06-10 |
| SVGA Gallium3D Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1 Support | Mesa | 2020-06-05 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support | Mesa | 2020-05-06 |
| Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Updates Enable Tiger Lake By Default, OLED Backlight Support | Linux Kernel | 2020-04-01 |
| Some Of The Features To Look Forward To With Linux 5.7 | Linux Kernel | 2020-03-27 |
| 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 |
| Mesa 20.1 Sees Big Optimizations To Its Soft FP64 Implementation | Mesa | 2020-03-19 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-02-10 |
| Mesa 20.0-RC2 Brings Many Intel Vulkan + OpenGL Gallium3D Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2020-02-07 |
| Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving | Nouveau | 2020-02-01 |
| Mesa 20.0-rc1 Released With Intel Gallium3D Default, OpenGL 4.6 for RadeonSI, Vulkan 1.2 | Mesa | 2020-01-30 |
| Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support | Intel | 2020-01-24 |
| Nsight Graphics 2020.1 Released With Profiling For Vulkan+OpenGL Interop | NVIDIA | 2020-01-24 |
| Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL | Intel | 2020-01-24 |
| Mesa 20.0 Feature Development Is Ending Next Week | Mesa | 2020-01-23 |
| AMD Drops TGSI Support From Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver | Radeon | 2020-01-07 |
| Zink Is Moving Closer To OpenGL 3.0 Support Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2020-01-04 |
| Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2020-01-03 |
| Gallium3D's Software Rasterizers Are Close To Having OpenGL Tessellation Support | Mesa | 2019-12-30 |
| Intel Gallium3D Driver Performance Is Looking Good With The Core i9 9900KS | Intel | 2019-12-26 |
| The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s | Radeon | 2019-12-18 |
| Mesa 20.0-devel Intel Gallium3D Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good For Ice Lake | Intel | 2019-12-14 |
| Mesa 19.3 Released With Big Updates For Intel's Open-Source Drivers, Valve ACO Option | Mesa | 2019-12-12 |
| Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code | Intel | 2019-12-11 |
| The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of This Decade | Phoronix | 2019-12-11 |
| RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs | Mesa | 2019-12-10 |
| Khronos + W3C Collaborating On SPIR-V Potentially Being The Shading Language For The Web | Desktop | 2019-11-28 |
| AMD's RadeonSI Driver Finally Enables OpenGL 4.6 But You Need To First Enable NIR | Radeon | 2019-11-27 |
| Intel's Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Achieves OpenGL 4.6 Conformance | Intel | 2019-11-21 |
| Mesa 19.3-RC1 Released With OpenGL 4.6 For Intel, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2019-10-30 |
| Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 | Standards | 2019-10-22 |
| RLSL Allows Running A Subset Of Rust On Vulkan/SPIR-V Enabled GPUs | Vulkan | 2019-10-21 |
| AMD Lands Greater Direct State Access Support Within Mesa | Mesa | 2019-10-20 |
| Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3 | Mesa | 2019-10-18 |
| Mesa 19.2 Released With Navi Support, Much Improved Intel Gallium3D | Mesa | 2019-09-25 |
| Intel's Gallium3D Linux Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2019-09-11 |
| Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support | Mesa | 2019-09-04 |
| Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions | Mesa | 2019-08-27 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Is Close With SPIR-V Support For OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2019-08-24 |
| Intel's OpenGL Linux Driver Now Has OpenGL 4.6 Support For Mesa 19.2 | Intel | 2019-08-21 |
| Mesa 19.2-RC1 Released But Intel Still Looking To Add OpenGL 4.6 Support | Mesa | 2019-08-20 |
| Mesa 19.2's Feature Freeze / Release Candidate Process Beginning Tomorrow | Mesa | 2019-08-19 |
| TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI | Mesa | 2019-08-12 |
| Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.2-11 While Still Waiting For OpenCL-Next | Standards | 2019-08-07 |
| Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support | Intel | 2019-08-04 |
| Mesa 19.2 Is Just Six Patches Away From Seeing OpenGL 4.6 Support | Mesa | 2019-07-17 |
| LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Implementation Picks Up More GL4 Extensions | Mesa | 2019-07-08 |
| ATI R300 Gallium3D Driver Seeing A Big Performance Fix After Being Regressed For Years | Radeon | 2019-06-05 |
| Mesa 19.2 R600 Gallium3D Can Advertise OpenGL 4.5 With Select GPUs | Mesa | 2019-06-05 |
| OpenGL 4.6 / SPIR-V Support Might Be Inching Closer For Mesa Drivers | Mesa | 2019-05-24 |
| Softpipe Improvements Land In Mesa 19.1 Allowing For More OpenGL 4.x Bits | Mesa | 2019-05-01 |
| VMware Working On Emulated Coherent Graphics Memory - Needed For GL 4.4 / Vulkan | Virtualization | 2019-04-25 |
| Mesa 19.1 To Expose EXT_gpu_shader4 Support | Mesa | 2019-04-25 |
| Mesa 19.1 Adds Workaround For Epic Games Launcher With OpenGL | Mesa | 2019-04-22 |
| Mesa's Vulkan Drivers See More Extension Work Ahead Of The 19.1 Branching | Mesa | 2019-04-19 |
| A Bunch Of New Code Merged Into Mesa 19.1: Intel ANV, Iris, Softpipe, Virgl | Mesa | 2019-04-09 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D In Mesa 19.1 Enables Parallel Shader Compile Support | Radeon | 2019-04-01 |
| GLX_ARB_create_context_no_error Support Lands In Mesa 19.1 | Mesa | 2019-03-13 |
| Khronos Continues Working On Better OpenCL + LLVM Integration | LLVM | 2019-03-08 |
| Mesa State Tracker Adds FP64/INT64 Lowering For NIR Drivers | Mesa | 2019-03-03 |
| RadeonSI Gets Patches To Finally Tap The Parallel Shader Compile Extensions | Radeon | 2019-02-25 |
| RadeonSI Gets NIR Improvements, Enabled By Default For Civilization VI | Radeon | 2019-02-19 |
| Improved ETC2 Texture Compression Lands For Older Haswell/Ivybridge GPUs On Linux | Intel | 2019-02-16 |
