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Tonga Articles & Reviews

AMDGPU+RADV Linux Gaming On GCN 1.0/1.1, 25-Way Warhammer II GPU Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2018-11-24
AMDGPU DRM For Linux 4.7 Will Bring Some Performance Boosts For The R9 Fury   Display Drivers   2016-05-15
Tonga AMDGPU Performance On Ubuntu 16.04 Has 80~90%+ Performance Of Catalyst   Display Drivers   2016-03-17
Catalyst vs. AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM On A R9 290: Experimental AMDGPU Can Be Faster   Display Drivers   2016-01-29
New AMD GPU Performance To Be Boosted By Linux 4.5; How It Compares To The Binary Blob   Display Drivers   2015-12-23
AMDGPU With PowerPlay Compared To AMD's Catalyst Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2015-11-27
How AMDGPU With PowerPlay Compares To Other Radeon GPUs   Display Drivers   2015-11-17
AMD Tonga & Fiji Open-Source Performance Boosted By PowerPlay Patches   Display Drivers   2015-11-13
The New AMD GPU Open-Source Driver On Linux 4.2 Works, But Still A Lot Of Work Ahead   Display Drivers   2015-07-25
AMD Radeon R9 285 Tonga Performance On Linux   Graphics Cards   2014-10-14

Tonga Linux & Open-Source News

Radeon OpenGL Linux Driver Massively Improves 3D Texturing Performance For Older GPUs   Radeon   2024-04-30
Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Gets H.264 & H.265 Decode Working   Mesa   2022-12-15
AMD Opens Up The Code To Its Radeon Memory Visualizer   Radeon   2020-12-09
AMD Adds New AMDGPU LLVM Targets For Older GPUs In Cleanup   Radeon   2020-10-10
AMD "GFX8" Hardware Now Has Expanded DCC Support With RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2019-07-02
Radeon GCC Back-End Updated For Running Single-Threaded C & Fortran On AMD GPUs   GNU   2018-11-17
The Radeon GCN Backend Is Still Being Worked On For GCC, GCC 9 Deadline Looms   Radeon   2018-11-12
AMDGPU Reset Recovery To Be Flipped On By Default For Newer Radeon GPUs   Radeon   2018-10-28
AMDGPU Firmware Files Updated, Raven Ridge DMCU Firmware Added   Radeon   2018-10-27
RadeonSI Fast Color Clears Should Now Be Even Faster   Mesa   2018-10-07
Code Sourcery Posts New AMD Radeon GCN Port, Hoping To Mainline For GCC 9 Compiler   Radeon   2018-09-05
The Best Features Of The Linux 4.17 Kernel: Power Savings, AMDGPU DC, ACPI TAD   Linux Kernel   2018-06-03
AMD Rolls Out New Firmware For A Number Of GPUs   Radeon   2018-05-19
Seven Reasons To Already Get Excited For Linux 4.17, Especially For AMD/Radeon Users   Linux Kernel   2018-03-30
AMDKFD Updates For Linux 4.17 Round Out dGPU Support   Radeon   2018-03-27
A Valve Linux Developer Managed Another Small Performance Optimization For RADV   Mesa   2018-03-23
Linux 4.17 To Enable AMDGPU DC By Default For All Supported GPUs   Radeon   2018-03-16
It's Going To Take More Time To Get Vega Compute Support With The Mainline Kernel   Radeon   2018-01-29
Radeon TONGA Sees Some Gains With AMDGPU DRM-Next 4.12   Radeon   2017-04-03
AMD MxGPU Virtualization For The AMDGPU Driver   AMD   2016-12-18
Linux 4.9 Has Tear-Free PRIME Offloading Between Intel & AMDGPU   AMD   2016-11-20
RADV Mesa Driver Now Faster Than AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan?   Radeon   2016-11-02
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Can Run Dota 2 With Correct Rendering   Radeon   2016-08-26
RadeonSI Performance Improvement For DRI PRIME Offloading   Mesa   2016-08-18
AMDGPU Golden Setting Updates For Tonga / Iceland / Polaris / Carrizo / Stoney   Radeon   2016-08-02
RADV: A Community Open-Source Effort To Get Vulkan Working On Radeon   Red Hat   2016-07-19
More Polaris & Tonga Fixes For Linux 4.7   Radeon   2016-07-06
AMDGPU-PRO vs. Linux 4.7 + Mesa 12.1-dev OpenGL Benchmarks   Radeon   2016-06-12
AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL vs. NVIDIA 364 Compute Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux   Hardware   2016-05-24
Dota 2 Vulkan Support Is Now Available   Vulkan   2016-05-23
AMDGPU-PRO BETA 2 Driver Is Playing Nicely On Ubuntu 16.04 With The R9 Fury   Radeon   2016-05-23
PowerPlay Fixes, More Polaris PCI IDs For AMDGPU 4.7   Radeon   2016-05-19
Trying Out The Experimental AMDGPU OverDrive Overclocking With The R9 Fury   Radeon   2016-05-17
Intel Skylake, AMDGPU Get Updated Firmware Blobs   Hardware   2016-05-16
An Ubuntu/Debian Kernel To Play With AMDGPU's OverDrive Overclocking Support   Radeon   2016-05-15
AMD Delivers OverDrive Overclocking Support For AMDGPU DRM Driver   Radeon   2016-05-13
RadeonSI's New SDMA Texture Copy Code Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2016-05-10
Raspberry Pi 3, Linux 4.6 & AMDGPU Were Popular Among Our 300+ Articles This Month   Premium   2016-03-31
AMD Posts Initial AMDGPU Hybrid Driver With Vulkan Support   Radeon   2016-03-18
My Favorite Features/Changes Of The Linux 4.5 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2016-03-08
R600g+SI Dota 2 Benchmarks With Mesa 11.2, Linux 4.5 Show Open Driver Progress   Linux Gaming   2016-02-13
AMD's Massive New DAL Display Driver Is Facing An Uphill Battle   AMD   2016-02-12
AMD Sends Out Patches For New AMDGPU DAL Display Driver, Adds 93k Lines Of Code   Radeon   2016-02-11
Here Is My Linux 4.5-rc3 Kernel Spin With AMDGPU PowerPlay & CIK Enabled   Ubuntu   2016-02-08
R9 Fury Performance Gains With Linux 4.5-rc2? I'm Not So Lucky   AMD   2016-02-01
Here Is A Linux 4.5-rc2 Kernel To Play With The New AMDGPU Functionality   Linux Kernel   2016-02-01
AMDGPU Driver Said To Be Much Faster With Linux 4.5-rc2 Kernel   Radeon   2016-02-01
AMDGPU Linux Gaming Tests With P-State vs. CPUFreq Scaling Drivers   Radeon   2016-01-31
Forcing The R9 Fury's Performance State For Better AMDGPU Performance?   Radeon   2016-01-28
Trying To Run The AMDGPU Driver With A Hawaii GPU On Linux 4.5   Radeon   2016-01-27
A Linux 4.5-rc1 Kernel With AMDGPU PowerPlay Enabled For Ubuntu Systems   Radeon   2016-01-25
You Can Help Bring Vulkan Support To Older AMD GCN GPUs   AMD   2016-01-15
AMD's Vulkan Driver Will Only Work With The AMDGPU Kernel Driver   Radeon   2016-01-15
Features To Start Looking Forward To For Linux 4.5   Linux Kernel   2016-01-04
Vulkan, BUS1, SuperTux, Raspberry Pi Zero & Other Popular December Topics   Free Software   2016-01-01
AMD/Radeon Has Continued Making Much Linux Graphics Progress   Radeon   2015-12-28
The Mesmerizing Mesa Milestones Of 2015   Mesa   2015-12-27
How To Use AMDGPU PowerPlay On The Linux 4.5 Kernel   Radeon   2015-12-23
AMDGPU PowerPlay Code Gets Readied For Linux 4.5   Radeon   2015-12-22
Here's A Fresh Ubuntu Kernel Spin With The Latest AMDGPU PowerPlay Support   Radeon   2015-12-18
Jetson TX1, One Second Linux & Other Open-Source Jollies From This Month   Phoronix   2015-11-30
AMDGPU 1.0 DDX Driver Released   Radeon   2015-11-22
AMD Launches Antigua (Tonga) Powered Radeon R9 380X   Radeon   2015-11-19
AMDGPU PowerPlay Is Working Great So Far; Here's An Ubuntu PowerPlay Kernel   Radeon   2015-11-12
AMD Publishes AMDGPU PowerPlay Support For Re-Clocking / Power Management   Radeon   2015-11-12
Linux 4.4 DRM Pull Has Raspberry Pi Driver, AMDGPU Improvements   Hardware   2015-11-08
It Was Five Years Ago Since Ubuntu Thought They Would Switch To Wayland   Wayland   2015-11-06
Looking Forward To The Linux 4.4 Merge Window Next Week   Linux Kernel   2015-10-28
AMD Sends In First Batch Of GPU Driver Updates For Linux 4.4   AMD   2015-10-14
Performance-Boosting DCC Support Being Worked On For RadeonSI VI GPUs   Mesa   2015-10-11
AMD Has More Developers Working On Their Open-Source Driver Behind The Scenes   AMD   2015-10-06
There's A Lot Of Exciting AMDGPU DRM Code Brewing For Eventual Catalyst Support   Radeon   2015-10-03
The Rest Of The Year Should Be Super Exciting For Linux Enthusiasts   Hardware   2015-10-01
Microcode Blobs Added To Linux-Firmware For Latest AMD Hardware   AMD   2015-09-04
GNU Linux-Libre 4.2 Takes Aim At AMDGPU & Intel's DRM Drivers   Linux Kernel   2015-08-30
AMD's Open-Source Support Might Be Caught Up For Next-Gen GPUs   AMD   2015-08-30
More Radeon/AMDGPU Fixes Line-Up For Linux 4.3   Linux Kernel   2015-08-26
The Top Features Of The Linux 4.2 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2015-08-23
AMD Lands Fiji Support & Initial AMDGPU Scheduler For Linux 4.3   Radeon   2015-08-20
AMDGPU, HEVC Support & More Added To Mainline Mesa 11.0   Mesa   2015-08-14
Libdrm 2.4.63 Makes Official The AMDGPU Support   Hardware   2015-08-14
HEVC/H.265 Video Decode Is Present In VDPAU For AMDGPU   Radeon   2015-08-08
AMDGPU Support Added To Mesa's DRM Library   Mesa   2015-08-05
AMD Publishes Open-Source Fiji GPU Support For AMDGPU   Radeon   2015-08-03
GL4 In Mesa, Open-Source AMD & Other Things That Made July Great For Linux   Phoronix   2015-08-01
AMDGPU Looks Like It Will Be Supported For Mesa 11.0   Radeon   2015-07-31
How Far The Radeon Gallium3D Driver Has Come In Five Years   Radeon   2015-07-23
AMD Catalyst 15.7 Linux Benchmarks: R9 290 Hawaii & R9 285 Tonga   AMD   2015-07-09
AMD Radeon 300 Series On Linux - Catalyst: 0 vs. Open-Source: 1   Radeon   2015-07-06
Linux 4.2 DRM Updates: Lots Of AMD Attention, No Nouveau Driver Changes   Linux Kernel   2015-06-25
AMD Will Be Working On Open-Source Fiji GPU Support In The AMDGPU Linux Driver   Radeon   2015-06-17
AMD Announces The Rx 300 Series, Fiji-Based Fury X, R9 Nano, Project Quantum   AMD   2015-06-16
New Features To Look Out For With The Linux 4.2 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2015-06-14
AMD GPU LLVM Back-End Renamed From R600 To AMDGPU   LLVM   2015-06-13
New AMDGPU Driver Gets More Fixes Ahead Of Its Linux 4.2 Introduction   Radeon   2015-06-11
The New DRM Graphics Drivers For Linux 4.2: AMDGPU & VirtIO   Linux Kernel   2015-06-06
AMDGPU Driver Called For Pulling Into DRM-Next For Linux 4.2 Kernel   Radeon   2015-06-03
For AMD Users, Linux 4.2 Will Bring The New AMDGPU Driver & VCE1 For Radeon   Radeon   2015-05-28
AMDGPU Open-Source Driver Code Continues Maturing   Radeon   2015-05-17
AMD's New Carrizo Graphics PCI IDs   AMD   2015-04-21
AMD Open-Sources "Addrlib" From Catalyst   AMD   2015-04-21
AMD Releases New "AMDGPU" Linux Kernel Driver & Mesa Support   Radeon   2015-04-20
AMD's New "AMDGPU" Kernel DRM Driver Might Finally Be Close   Radeon   2015-04-15
The Linux Milestones That Didn't Make It This Winter   Free Software   2015-03-20
AMD Starts Linux Enablement On Next-Gen "Zen" Architecture   AMD   2015-03-17
Radeon R9 390X Could Cost $700+ USD   Radeon   2015-03-16
AMD Talks Up The Carrizo APU At ISSCC   AMD   2015-02-24
KDBUS & Other Features You Won't FInd In The Linux 4.0 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2015-02-23
Open-Source Radeon Driver Reworks Audio Code, Adds DisplayPort Audio   Radeon   2015-01-13
AMDKFD Driver Does More Prepping For Carrizo / VI APUs   AMD   2015-01-13
AMDKFD HSA Kernel Driver Changes Planned For Linux 3.20   AMD   2015-01-10
AMDKFD Linux Driver Begins Preparing For VI Carrizo APUs   AMD   2015-01-08
Exciting Graphics Driver Changes Coming In Linux 3.19   Linux Kernel   2014-12-07
Intel Publishes More Skylake Linux Graphics Patches   Intel   2014-11-14
NVIDIA 346.16 Beta Adds VP8 Decoding, NVENC, GTK3 & Much More   NVIDIA   2014-11-13
AMD's New GPU Kernel Driver Could Be Too Late For Linux 3.19   Linux Kernel   2014-11-02
AMD On Linux & Systemd Were Very Popular This Month   Phoronix   2014-10-31
AMD's Radeon R9 285 On Linux Offers Good OpenCL Performance   Radeon   2014-10-17
AMD Catalyst AI Performance With "Tonga" On Ubuntu Linux   AMD   2014-10-16
AMD Radeon R9 285 Linux GPU Scaling Performance   Radeon   2014-10-16
AMD's New Open-Source "AMDGPU" Linux Driver Supports The R9 285 Tonga   Radeon   2014-10-13
AMD Releases Updated Catalyst Linux Graphics Driver (v14.30)   AMD   2014-09-03