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OpenGL 4.0 Articles & Reviews

Open-Source Mesa Drivers Now Supporting OpenGL 4.0+   Display Drivers   2015-07-23
AMD FirePro V8800 2GB   Graphics Cards   2010-04-12

OpenGL 4.0 Linux & Open-Source News

Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Driver Now Allows OpenGL 4.2   Mesa   2022-02-04
Microsoft's Direct3D 12 Code For Mesa Now Supports OpenGL Tessellation Functionality   Microsoft   2022-01-26
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Lands Tessellation Shader Support In Mesa 21.0   Mesa   2020-12-23
Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan   Mesa   2020-10-17
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
Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support   Mesa   2020-05-06
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
Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support   Intel   2020-01-24
Gallium3D's Software Rasterizers Are Close To Having OpenGL Tessellation Support   Mesa   2019-12-30
Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code   Intel   2019-12-11
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
LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Implementation Picks Up More GL4 Extensions   Mesa   2019-07-08
Mesa 19.2 R600 Gallium3D Can Advertise OpenGL 4.5 With Select GPUs   Mesa   2019-06-05
Softpipe Improvements Land In Mesa 19.1 Allowing For More OpenGL 4.x Bits   Mesa   2019-05-01
Mesa State Tracker Adds FP64/INT64 Lowering For NIR Drivers   Mesa   2019-03-03
"Soft" FP64/INT64 Implementations Merged To Mesa, Intel Driver Already Making Use   Mesa   2019-01-10
AMD Wires In A Few More Extensions For Their Open-Source OpenGL Driver   Mesa   2018-11-29
Patches Revised Taking RadeonSI OpenGL Compatibility Profile To v4.0   Mesa   2018-06-25
RadeonSI Compatibility Profile Is Close To OpenGL 4.4 Support   Radeon   2018-06-22
Mesa's VirGL For OpenGL Within VMs Now Supports Tessellation Shaders   Mesa   2018-06-15
Tracking Mesa's VirGL OpenGL Features   Virtualization   2018-06-07
David Airlie Moves Toward Upstreaming Soft FP64 Support In Mesa   Mesa   2018-03-12
R600 Gallium3D Gets More Fixes, Experimental SB Tessellation Support   Mesa   2018-01-10
Freedreno A4xx Picks Up Some More OpenGL 4 Extensions   Mesa   2017-11-26
Freedreno Gallium3D Supports A Fair Amount Of OpenGL 4.x   Mesa   2017-11-18
OpenGL 4.2 Support Could Soon Land For AMD Cayman GPUs On R600g   Mesa   2017-11-14
More Details On The OpenGL 4.2 Support For Ivy Bridge With Mesa 17.1   Intel   2017-04-20
Soft FP64 Patches For Intel Sandy Bridge Allow ARB_gpu_shader_fp64   Mesa   2017-04-12
OpenGL 4.0 / FP64 Patches Updated For Intel Ivy Bridge   Intel   2017-03-20
Mesa 17.1 Expected In Early May, Feature Freeze In One Month   Mesa   2017-03-09
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
A Soft Implementation Of ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 Is Slowly Being Tackled For Mesa   Mesa   2017-02-25
Intel Sandy Bridge Picks Up transform_feedback2, Should Allow WebGL 2.0 Support   Intel   2017-02-21
OpenGL 4.0 Patches For Intel Ivy Bridge Revised   Mesa   2017-02-14
Mesa 17.0-RC1 Released   Mesa   2017-01-19
Mesa 17.0 Has Been Branched   Mesa   2017-01-19
Mesa 17.0 Delayed To Allow For Ivy Bridge OpenGL 4.0   Mesa   2017-01-17
Ivy Bridge Patches For OpenGL 4.0 In Mesa Updated   Intel   2017-01-17
Intel's Mesa Driver Set To Flip On OpenGL 4.5 For Haswell   Intel   2017-01-16
OpenGL 4.2 Now Exposed For Intel Haswell On Mesa 17.0   Mesa   2017-01-12
Mesa Patches For Bringing Intel Haswell To OpenGL 4.2   Intel   2017-01-09
Haswell On Mesa Now Has Nearly Complete OpenGL ES 3.2 Implementation   Intel   2017-01-06
Igalia Delivers Ivy Bridge Mesa Patches For FP64 / OpenGL 4.0   Intel   2017-01-05
Float64 Support For Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Revised   Vulkan   2017-01-05
Intel's Mesa Driver Now Officially Exposes OpenGL 4.0 For Haswell   Intel   2017-01-05
FP64 Support Finally Lands In Mesa Git For Intel Haswell   Intel   2017-01-03
Haswell OpenGL 4.0 / FP64 Support In Mesa Might Finally Be Close To Merging   Mesa   2016-12-22
libSoftFloat 1.0 Released, Still Working Towards Emulated FP64 Support For GPUs   Mesa   2016-11-29
Features You Will Not Find In The Mesa 13.0 Release   Mesa   2016-10-22
Patches Revised For Supporting OpenGL 4.0 On Intel Haswell With Mesa   Mesa   2016-10-11
95 Patches Ready The Intel Mesa Driver For OpenGL 4 On Haswell   Intel   2016-07-19
It's Easy Trying Out Intel's OpenGL 4.2 Mesa Driver On Ubuntu 16.04   Intel   2016-05-17
Intel's Mesa Driver Jumps Ahead To OpenGL 4.2   Intel   2016-05-17
Intel's Mesa Driver Now Has OpenGL 4.0 Support   Intel   2016-05-16
Latest Intel FP64 Patches Published For i965 Mesa DRI Driver   Mesa   2016-04-29
Igalia Posts Intel vertex_attrib_64bit Mesa Driver Patches, Close To OpenGL 4.1+   Intel   2016-04-28
The Intel Mesa Driver Is Getting Incredibly Close To Nailing OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2016-03-03
Intel's Mesa Driver Is Very Close To Having FP64, Thereby OpenGL 4 Support   Intel   2016-03-01
Mesa Scratches Another GLES 3.2 Extension Off Its TODO List   Mesa   2016-02-27
Core Mesa Is Now Just One Step Away From OpenGL 4.3 Compliance   Mesa   2016-02-03
Open-Source / Linux Enthusiasts Have A Lot To Be Thankful For This Year   Free Software   2015-12-30
The Mesmerizing Mesa Milestones Of 2015   Mesa   2015-12-27
The Open-Source Linux Letdowns of 2015   Free Software   2015-12-24
Intel Enables Tessellation Shader Support In Open-Source Linux Driver   Mesa   2015-12-22
Intel OpenGL ES 3.1 Support Now Enabled In Mesa   Intel   2015-12-17
Running OpenGL 4.1, DRI3 With Mesa Git On An AMD Cayman GPU   AMD   2015-12-16
Intel Lands Compute Shader Support In Mesa!   Mesa   2015-12-10
Intel Is Very Close With Tessellation Shaders For Mesa   Intel   2015-12-02
AMD R600g Is Making Progress With Tessellation, Running Heaven   Mesa   2015-11-30
Latest On AMD Crimson For Linux: Supports 4.x Kernels, Drops Pre-GCN GPUs   AMD   2015-11-24
Readers Think It's A Toss Up Whether Mesa Will Hit OpenGL 4.5 Next Year   Mesa   2015-11-22
The Next Mesa Release Doesn't Have Any Major OpenGL Breakthrough   Mesa   2015-11-21
AMD R600g Catches Up With Another GL 4.3 Extension   AMD   2015-11-10
Is Upgrading To Mesa 11.1-devel Worthwhile For Radeon R600g Users?   Mesa   2015-10-26
The Impact Of Switching To Linux 4.3 + Mesa-11.1/LLVM-3.8 On Ubuntu 15.10   AMD   2015-10-20
AMD Radeon R9 290: Ubuntu 15.04 vs. 15.10 - Don't Expect Much Better Performance   Ubuntu   2015-10-19
Ubuntu PPA Updated With Mesa Git + LLVM 3.8 SVN   Mesa   2015-10-13
Radeon R600g Finally Catching Up With OpenGL 4   Mesa   2015-10-12
Intel Compute Shaders Appear Nearly Ready For Mainline Mesa   Intel   2015-10-06
The Rest Of The Year Should Be Super Exciting For Linux Enthusiasts   Hardware   2015-10-01
Intel Might Be Moving Closer With Their Mesa Tessellation Shader Support   Linux Kernel   2015-09-23
R600 Gallium3D Gains FP64 Support, Knocks Down Some GL 4.0/4.1 Extensions   Mesa   2015-09-13
Intel Releases Production-Ready OpenGL 4.4 Driver, But Only For Windows   Intel   2015-09-09
R600 Gallium3D Gets A Little Bit Of Attention   Mesa   2015-09-03
VMware Lands Its OpenGL 3.3 Support In Its Mesa Gallium3D Driver   Wayland   2015-09-02
Intel Scratches Another OpenGL ES 3.1 Item Off The List   Intel   2015-08-20
With Mesa 11.0 Coming, A Look At Development Stats   Mesa   2015-08-17
Work Continues On FP64 Support For OpenGL 4.0 On Intel's Driver   Intel   2015-08-15
OpenGL 4.2 Is Now Complete In Core Mesa!   Mesa   2015-08-11
LLVMpipe Tests On Mesa Git With An Intel Core i7 Broadwell   Mesa   2015-08-03
Mesa Git Is Now Officially Mesa 11.0   Mesa   2015-08-01
OpenGL 4.1 Support Now Enabled In Mesa Git For AMD RadeonSI   Radeon   2015-07-30
Radeon Gallium3D Tackles A Bit More, OpenGL 4.1 Patches Pending   Mesa   2015-07-28
BioShock Infinite Is Almost Working Fine For Mesa Drivers   Linux Gaming   2015-07-27
It's Been A Great Month So Far For Open-Source/Linux Users   Free Software   2015-07-24
Intel's Mesa DRI Driver Now Supports Shader Subroutines   Intel   2015-07-24
How Far The Radeon Gallium3D Driver Has Come In Five Years   Radeon   2015-07-23
Core Mesa Now Implements OpenGL 4.0, Nearly At OpenGL 4.1~4.2   Mesa   2015-07-23
RadeonSI Now Supports Tessellation In Mesa Git   Mesa   2015-07-22
Two More GL4 Extensions Enabled In Mesa 10.7 Git For RadeonSI   Mesa   2015-07-12
Freedreno A4xx Improvements Landing In Mesa Git   Mesa   2015-07-11
LLVMpipe FP64 Support Knocks Off Some GL4 Extensions   Mesa   2015-07-01
RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets New OpenGL 4 Bits   Radeon   2015-06-27
Marek Posts Mesa Tessellation Support For RadeonSI Gallium3D   Mesa   2015-06-17
Mesa 10.6.0 Officially Released While Still Lacking OpenGL 4.0+ Compliance   Mesa   2015-06-15
Intel Broadwell HD Graphics Tests With Mesa 10.7 Git   Intel   2015-05-31
Yet Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension Is Nearing Completion In Mesa   Mesa   2015-05-25
Features Added To Mesa 10.6 For Open-Source GPU Drivers   Mesa   2015-05-23
Mesa 10.6 Has Been Branched, Mesa 10.7 Now In Development   Mesa   2015-05-19
Mesa 10.6 Being Branched Soon, Official Release Coming Early June   Mesa   2015-05-11
Many OpenGL ES 3.1 Commits Land In Mesa   Standards   2015-05-04
Another OpenGL 4.2 Extension Comes Close For Intel Mesa   Intel   2015-04-28
Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes GLSL 4.10   Mesa   2015-04-28
Intel's Windows Driver Now Supports OpenGL 4.4, Linux Driver Still With OpenGL 3.3   Intel   2015-04-20
Mesa Is At Nearly 1,500 Commits This Year   Mesa   2015-03-26
OpenGL Arrays-of-Arrays Getting Finished Up For Mesa   Mesa   2015-03-21
The Linux Milestones That Didn't Make It This Winter   Free Software   2015-03-20
OpenGL Direct State Access Materializing In Mesa   Mesa   2015-03-20
OpenGL 4.0 Turns Five Years Old, Mesa Still Doesn't Fully Support It   Standards   2015-03-11
Valve Developed An Intel Linux Vulkan GPU Driver   Intel   2015-03-05
Mesa 10.5-RC3 Now Available To Test Improved GPU Drivers   Mesa   2015-02-27
Nouveau Gallium3D Now Supports Double-Precision Floating-Point Data Types   Nouveau   2015-02-21
Mesa 10.5 Release Candidate 1 Arrives   Mesa   2015-02-12
Mesa 10.5 Is Branched, Still Lacks OpenGL 4.0+ Support   Mesa   2015-02-09
Intel Mesa Driver Picks Up Support For OpenGL Memory Barriers   Intel   2015-02-06
New Mesa 10.3 & 10.4 Series Point Releases   Mesa   2015-01-12
Mesa 10.3 & 10.4 Point Releases For The New Year   Mesa   2014-12-30
Valve Optimizations, D3D9 & GL4 Topped Mesa This Year   Mesa   2014-12-26
VC4 Gallium3D Adds DMA-BUF Support, Yields Working DRI3   Mesa   2014-12-18
Mesa 10.4 Officially Released With Direct3D 9 State Tracker   Mesa   2014-12-14
Mesa 10.4 Brings Performance Improvements & New Features   Mesa   2014-11-30
Mesa 10.4 Has Been Branched - No OpenGL 4 This Year   Mesa   2014-11-16
R600g Driver Patched For OpenGL 4.0 Indirect Draw Support   AMD   2014-11-09
OpenGL 4.x Support For Mesa Still Inching Along   Mesa   2014-10-29
Mesa 10.4 Tentatively Planned For Early December   Mesa   2014-10-22
Mesa Gets Closer To Having OpenGL 4.0 Tessellation Support   Intel   2014-09-21
Mesa 10.3 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Improvements   Mesa   2014-09-19
Mesa's Top Contributors This Summer   Mesa   2014-09-07
Intel Releases OpenGL 4.3 Driver For Haswell... On Windows   Intel   2014-09-03
Metro Redux Is Going To Require OpenGL 4.x On Linux   Linux Gaming   2014-08-29
The New Features Of Mesa 10.3   Mesa   2014-08-25
Mesa 10.3 Branched & RC1 Released, Mesa 10.4 On Master   Mesa   2014-08-21
Mesa Now Supports Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension   Mesa   2014-08-19
Mesa Picks Up Support For Some OpenGL 4.5 Extensions   Mesa   2014-08-15