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| More Of Valve's RADV Optimizations Around Fast-Linking Reach Mesa 23.1 | Mesa | 2023-02-02 |
| RADV Graphics Pipeline Library Support Becoming Speedy, Aims For Mesa 23.1 Promotion | Radeon | 2023-01-29 |
| Valve Fixes RAGE 2 Breaking For Recent Mesa RADV Driver | Mesa | 2023-01-29 |
| RADV Receives Patches To Help With Less Stuttering For Zink | Radeon | 2023-01-20 |
| RADV Lands A Few More Improvements To Reduce CPU Overhead | Radeon | 2023-01-04 |
| Mesa Open-Source 3D Drivers Experienced Record Growth In 2022 | Mesa | 2022-12-29 |
| RADV Lands Dynamic Rasterization Samples & Line Rasterization Mode | Mesa | 2022-12-08 |
| RADV Mesa Driver Lands Several NGG Stream-Out Fixes | Radeon | 2022-11-26 |
| Mesa 22.3 RADV Driver Now Allows Enabling NGG Stream-Out Functionality | Radeon | 2022-11-01 |
| Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands APU Fix For Red Dead Redemption 2 | Radeon | 2022-10-01 |
| More Zink Improvements Arrive For Mesa 22.3, Less Stuttering For RADV | Mesa | 2022-09-13 |
| RADV Ray-Tracing Now Works With AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler | Radeon | 2022-09-09 |
| RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Graphics Pipeline Library Support | Radeon | 2022-08-17 |
| RADV Adds EXT_primitives_generated_query To Help Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan | Radeon | 2022-06-09 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Continues At Full-Speed Preparing For RDNA3/GFX11 GPUs | Radeon | 2022-05-19 |
| Valve Developer Starts Poking At Open-Source "RADV" Driver Support For GFX11/RDNA3 | Radeon | 2022-05-13 |
| Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands Dynamic VRS To Help With Power Savings - Helps The Steam Deck | Radeon | 2022-02-16 |
| Valve Working On Radeon Dynamic VRS For The Steam Deck To Increase Power Savings | Mesa | 2022-01-26 |
| Mesa's RADV Driver Lands Workaround For Flickering Issue With F1 2021 | Linux Gaming | 2022-01-01 |
| Mesa Open-Source GPU Drivers Enjoyed Near-Record Growth In 2021, Valve Dev Top Contributor | Mesa | 2021-12-26 |
| Sparse Mapping Improvements Help Radeon RADV Driver With Some Games | Mesa | 2021-12-16 |
| RADV Driver Improvement Yields More Reasonably Sized Captures For Radeon GPU Profiling | Radeon | 2021-12-02 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Finally Adds VK_KHR_synchronization2 Support | Radeon | 2021-11-27 |
| RADV Lands Fast Clear Improvements, Helping RDNA With VKD3D-Proton | Radeon | 2021-08-10 |
| RADV Lands Another Navi Optimization In Mesa 21.1 To Help With MSAA Performance | Radeon | 2021-03-17 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Enables NGG For AMD VanGogh APUs | Radeon | 2020-11-30 |
| Older Radeon GPUs With RADV Vulkan Driver Now Have Trap Handler For Helping Catch Issues | Radeon | 2020-08-24 |
| RADV Driver Lands Support For Vulkan Extended Dynamic State | Radeon | 2020-07-13 |
| Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For Sienna Cichlid | Mesa | 2020-06-19 |
| Radeon RADV Driver Merge Request Opened To Use ACO By Default | Radeon | 2020-06-15 |
| RADV Picks Up A Performance Boost For id Tech Vulkan-Powered Games On Linux + AMD APUs | Radeon | 2020-04-28 |
| Mesa 20.1's RADV Lands More Performance Improvements For Recent id Tech Games | Linux Gaming | 2020-04-09 |
| RADV SQTT Profiling Support Expanded To Support GFX10/Navi | Radeon | 2020-03-02 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Wiring Up Support For Radeon's SQ Thread Trace Block | Radeon | 2020-02-28 |
| Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Adding Compatibility For Use With The AMD Radeon GPU Profiler | Mesa | 2020-02-21 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Option For Zeroing Out Video Memory | Mesa | 2020-02-20 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Makes A Few More Improvements For GCN 1.0/1.1 Hardware | Radeon | 2020-02-17 |
| Radeon "sisched" Scheduler Is Made Obsolete By RADV's ACO Back-End | Radeon | 2020-02-13 |
| RADV Re-Enables NGG Geometry Shader Support | Mesa | 2020-01-30 |
| RADV's Next-Gen Geometry Code Continues To Be Revised For Navi GPUs | Radeon | 2020-01-13 |
| Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2020-01-03 |
| RADV Lands VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control For Exposing Wave32 On Navi/GFX10 | Radeon | 2019-11-06 |
| RADV Lands More Fixes + Performance Improvements Into Mesa 19.3 | Radeon | 2019-10-23 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Several GFX10/Navi Fixes, Including To Address Random Hangs | Mesa | 2019-10-03 |
| Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Tackling NGG Stream-Out | Radeon | 2019-09-16 |
| Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wave32 Support For More Shaders | Vulkan | 2019-08-03 |
| Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Navi Wave32 Support For Compute Shaders | Radeon | 2019-07-31 |
| RADV's Navi Support Gets Patches For Vulkan Transform Feedback | Mesa | 2019-07-24 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Manages Launch-Day Support For AMD Navi 10/12/14 GPUs | AMD | 2019-07-07 |
| AMD "GFX8" Hardware Now Has Expanded DCC Support With RADV Vulkan Driver | Radeon | 2019-07-02 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Fixes For Vega M Hardware | Radeon | 2019-06-13 |
| Mesa 19.2 RADV Driver Now Fully Supports EXT_sample_locations For Possible AA Benefits | Mesa | 2019-06-07 |
| Mesa Is About To Crack 2.7 Million Lines | Mesa | 2019-04-29 |
| RADV Driver Tacks On VK_AMD_gpu_shader_half_float Support In Mesa 19.1 | Radeon | 2019-04-10 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Patches For VK_KHR_8bit_storage | Mesa | 2019-03-19 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Memory Budget Information For Mesa 19.0 | Mesa | 2019-01-15 |
| RADV Driver Patches Revive shaderStorageImageMultisample - Useful For DXVK | Mesa | 2018-12-20 |
| Mesa 19.0 RADV Vulkan Driver Gets New Fixes To Help DXVK Gaming | Mesa | 2018-12-13 |
| RADV Lands Another Fast Clear Optimization, Helping An Operation 18x | Radeon | 2018-11-19 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver To Enable Vega Primitive Binning By Default - Helps Performance | Radeon | 2018-11-15 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Transform Feedback For Mesa 18.3 | Mesa | 2018-10-29 |
| DXVK Already Lands Vulkan Transform Feedback Support, RADV Posts Patches | Vulkan | 2018-10-13 |
| Valve Has Been Working On A HUD For The RADV Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2018-09-24 |
| RADV's Iffy 16-bit Integer Support Merged Into Mesa | Mesa | 2018-09-18 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Finally Picking Up 16-Bit Integer Support In Shaders | Radeon | 2018-09-14 |
| RADV Finally Picking Up Support For Conservative Rasterization | Radeon | 2018-09-12 |
| AMD's Marek Olšák Is Dominating Mesa Open-Source GPU Driver Development This Year | Mesa | 2018-09-12 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Minor CPU Overhead Reductions, Conditional Rendering Patches | Radeon | 2018-07-09 |
| VK_KHR_8bit_storage Gets Wired Into Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver, Patches Available | Intel | 2018-07-09 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Should Now Work Much Better With DXVK For Direct3D 11 Wine Gaming | Radeon | 2018-06-09 |
| RADV Gets Fix For DXVK With World of Warcraft & Other Games | Radeon | 2018-05-22 |
| RADV Gets Support For 32-bit GPU Pointers For User SGPRs, Benefiting Performance | Mesa | 2018-05-19 |
| RADV Enables OoO Rasterization By Default For A 1% Gain | Radeon | 2018-05-02 |
| VK_AMD_shader_core_properties Now Supported By RADV | Vulkan | 2018-04-09 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Out-of-Order Rasterization Support, Small Performance Boost | Radeon | 2018-04-04 |
| Valve & RADV Developers Are Topping Contributions To Mesa This Year | Mesa | 2018-04-01 |
| RADV In Mesa 18.1 Git Receiving New Vulkan Extension Work | Radeon | 2018-03-29 |
| AMD Vega 12 GPU Support Lands In Mesa 18.1-devel | Mesa | 2018-03-28 |
| A Valve Linux Developer Managed Another Small Performance Optimization For RADV | Mesa | 2018-03-23 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Improvements Coming For Wolfenstein 2 On Wine | WINE | 2018-02-24 |
| Vega Gets Its Last Fix For Dawn of War III On Linux With Vulkan | Radeon | 2018-02-20 |
| Valve Has Hired Another Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Developer | Valve | 2018-02-08 |
| Mesa Grew By Nearly 250,000 Lines Of Code In 2017 Across 10k Commits | Mesa | 2018-01-02 |
| RADV Has Cleared Out Its F1 2017 Vulkan Driver Bugs | Radeon | 2017-12-19 |
| Remaining RADV Vulkan Driver Bugs for Vega Being Addressed | Vulkan | 2017-12-05 |
| The Top Mesa News Of 2017 | Mesa | 2017-12-03 |
| RADV Will Now Enable "Sisched" For The Talos Principle, Boosting Frame Rates | Radeon | 2017-11-14 |
| More RADV Radeon Vulkan Optimizations Are In The Works | Mesa | 2017-11-08 |
| Mesa 17.3 By The Numbers | Mesa | 2017-10-24 |
| Another Minor Performance Optimization For RADV | Radeon | 2017-10-12 |
| Mesa Is Up To About 8,000 Commits This Year, 2.2 Million Lines | Mesa | 2017-10-10 |
| VK_KHR_maintenance2 Lands For RADV, Other Improvements | Radeon | 2017-10-06 |
| Better Hang Detection For The RADV Vulkan Driver | Radeon | 2017-09-12 |
| RadeonSI Gets Performance Boost For Dawn of War III | Linux Gaming | 2017-08-22 |
| Mesa Is On Track Again To See More Than 10,000 Commits This Year | Mesa | 2017-08-07 |
| 100+ More KHR_no_error Patches, Might Help Some Games | Mesa | 2017-07-21 |
| Pitoiset Continues Optimizing Mesa's KHR_no_error For Dawn Of War 3 | Linux Gaming | 2017-06-27 |
| Samuel Pitoiset Takes To More RadeonSI/Mesa Optimizations | Mesa | 2017-06-15 |
| Bindless Textures Land In Mesa Git For RadeonSI | Mesa | 2017-06-14 |
| RadeonSI ARB_bindless_texture Revised, Nearly Ready For Mesa 17.2 Git | Radeon | 2017-06-09 |
| KHR_no_error Improvements Hit Mesa Ahead Of Dawn of War III | Mesa | 2017-06-07 |
| Valve's Mesa Developers Continue Tuning KHR_no_error For Saving CPU Cycles | Mesa | 2017-06-01 |
| ARB_bindless_texture Updated For RadeonSI Gallium3D | Radeon | 2017-05-30 |
| ARB_bindless_texture Patches Posted For RadeonSI Gallium3D | Radeon | 2017-05-19 |
| Initial Work Towards ARB_bindless_texture Support Lands In Mesa | Mesa | 2017-05-07 |
| Pitoiset Prepping Bindless Textures For Mesa | Mesa | 2017-04-11 |
| Students Are Missing Out On An Incredible Opportunity To Get Involved With Mesa, Wayland | Google | 2017-04-01 |
| Valve Hires X11 Veteran Keith Packard To Work On The Linux Display Stack | Valve | 2017-03-14 |
| Valve Has Another Linux Graphics Driver Developer Working On Open-Source AMD | Valve | 2017-02-14 |
| Nouveau: Mesa 13.0 vs. 17.0 vs. 17.1-devel OpenGL Benchmarks | Nouveau | 2017-02-11 |
| Mesa RFC Changes To Help Worms WMD, Tropico 5 & Crookz | Mesa | 2017-02-10 |
| AMDGPU Winsys Gets Minor Optimization From Pitoiset | Mesa | 2017-01-30 |
| OpenGL 4.3 Lands For Maxwell With Nouveau Gallium3D, Plus 1.5~3.5x Performance Boost | Mesa | 2017-01-12 |
| Former Nouveau GSoC Developer Now Working For Valve On Open-Source AMD Driver | Valve | 2016-12-23 |
| A Green & Open Christmas: GL 4.3 For Maxwell/Pascal, Huge Maxwell Performance Boost | Nouveau | 2016-12-23 |
| Nouveau Exposes Performance Counters For Maxwell | Nouveau | 2016-11-10 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Preps For OpenGL 4.5 / GLSL 4.5 | Mesa | 2016-10-09 |
| Gallium3D's Nouveau Lands ARB_compute_variable_group_size Implementation | Nouveau | 2016-10-07 |
| Nouveau Developers Remain Frustrated By NVIDIA's Firmware Practices | Nouveau | 2016-09-22 |
| Nouveau Patches Round Out OpenGL 4.1 Support For Maxwell/Pascal | Nouveau | 2016-07-26 |
| Maxwell OpenGL Improvements Coming To Nouveau | Nouveau | 2016-07-18 |
| Nouveau Fermi Gets OpenGL 4.2 Support Flipped On | Nouveau | 2016-05-21 |
| Patches Published For Taking Nouveau Fermi Support Up To OpenGL 4.2 | Nouveau | 2016-05-14 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Compute Shader Support Is On For GTK110+ GPUs | Nouveau | 2016-05-10 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Appears Ready With OpenGL 4.2 Support For Select NVIDIA GPUs | Nouveau | 2016-04-26 |
| OpenGL Compute Shader Support Lands For Nouveau GK104 & GM107+ | Nouveau | 2016-04-01 |
| Nouveau Lands MP Performance Counters For The GK110 | Nouveau | 2016-03-12 |
| Patches Published For Nouveau Compute Support On Kepler | Nouveau | 2016-02-27 |
| Mesa NVC0 Lands Fermi Compute Shaders | Nouveau | 2016-02-21 |
| Nouveau Lands GM107 Compute Support Ahead Of Mesa 11.2 | Nouveau | 2016-02-17 |
| More Nouveau GL4 Feature Patches Published | Nouveau | 2016-02-13 |
| Compute Shader Code Begins Landing For Gallium3D | Mesa | 2016-02-13 |
| Compute Shader Support Patches For NVIDIA Fermi On Nouveau | Nouveau | 2016-02-06 |
| Core Compute Shader Support Under Review For Gallium3D | Nouveau | 2016-01-24 |
| The State of Compute Shaders For Gallium3D Drivers | AMD | 2016-01-19 |
| Improved Kepler Performance Metrics For Nouveau | Nouveau | 2015-12-05 |
| Nouveau NV50 Gets Basic Compute Support, A Step Towards OpenCL | Nouveau | 2015-11-15 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Enables Compute Support For Fermi GPUs | Mesa | 2015-11-08 |
| Performance Counter Improvements On The Way For Nouveau Users | Nouveau | 2015-10-16 |
| NVIDIA Performance Counters Still Coming Along For Nouveau | Nouveau | 2015-09-20 |
| NV50 Global Performance Counters For Nouveau | Nouveau | 2015-06-23 |
| NVIDIA Performance Counters Headed To Linux 4.2 | Linux Kernel | 2015-06-16 |
| Nouveau Patches Under Review To Expose Global Performance Counters | Nouveau | 2015-06-07 |
| NVIDIA/Nouveau PerfKit Implemented Over Gallium3D State Tracker | Nouveau | 2015-06-02 |
| Nouveau Lands GL_AMD_Performance_Monitor Support | Nouveau | 2015-05-05 |
| GL_AMD_performance_monitor For Gallium3D Drivers | Mesa | 2015-03-19 |
| Nouveau-PerfKit Still Being Worked On, Perf Counter Code Expected For Linux 3.20 | Nouveau | 2014-10-10 |
| XDC 2014 Kicked Off This Morning In Bordeaux | X.Org | 2014-10-08 |
| GSoC 2014 Yielded Some Improvements For Mesa/X.Org This Year | X.Org | 2014-09-02 |
