Mesa 13.0.1 RC released, bug fixes and up to 30% performance increase in the Intel Vulkan driver

Not long after the big Mesa 13 release, we have a release candidate ready for a point release. It's an interesting one too, as it will include a performance improvement to the Intel Vulkan driver, as well as assorted bug fixes.

The plan is to have this released by the end of the weekend. They are hoping for around 6PM UTC tomorrow!

QuoteAs one can imagine huge hunk of the commits are fixes in the Vulkan drivers.

Up-to 30% performance increase using the Intel ANV Vulkan driver. The Radeon
RADV Vulkan driver now ships with distinctly named json files, which include
the full Vulkan driver path. Making it possible for people to install and
use the drivers outside their /usr/lib directory.

RADV correctly advertises support for the Xlib platform extension and one can
use it alongside the Dolphin emulator. ANV and RADV have improved handling of
Xlib/XCB connections and advertise the currect versions of the extensions they
support.

We also have restored interop between third party OpenCL implementations and
Mesa's libGL/libEGL. The GLX GLVND driver has a few noticable fixes as well.

See the mailing list entry here.

I'm very much enjoying the increased development pace of Mesa recently, so great to see. Hopefully these performance improvements will keep coming now the large part of OpenGL is done. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.