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AMD 'Ryzen' is the official name of the Zen processors, more details released today

By Liam Dawe, Dec 13, 2016

AMD have released more information about Zen, but the official name is now AMD 'Ryzen' (pronounced as Rye-zen). Their livestream event just finished, so here's a quick overview for you.

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AMDGPU-PRO 16.50 actually released, with FreeSync and wider GPU support

By Liam Dawe, Dec 8, 2016

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As expected (from the leak), AMD has pushed out AMDGPU-PRO 16.50 for Linux which includes FreeSync support along with support for a wider set of cards.

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AMD will be showing off their Zen CPU Architecture and letting people play with it on December 13th

By Liam Dawe, Dec 7, 2016

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On December 13th AMD have said they will be showing off more of their new CPU architecture named Zen.

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AMD working on an updated driver that will support FreeSync on Linux and wider GPU support

By Liam Dawe, Dec 6, 2016

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AMD have announced that they are working on a big driver update. The Linux driver will support FreeSync and have wider support for their different GPUs.

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Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR

By Liam Dawe, Oct 13, 2016

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Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.

Another performance improvement is on the way for AMD users on the radeonsi driver

By Liam Dawe, Oct 12, 2016

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The AMD developer Marek Olšák sent over a patch to Mesa for the AMD radeonsi driver that he found by luck, and it improves DiRT: Showdown on Ultra settings by 15%. It's likely of course that this can help other games too.

AMD Zen looks like it will release at CES in January 2017

By Liam Dawe, Oct 11, 2016

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In January 2017 it looks like AMD will finally release their brand new clean-sheet (it's a new design) Zen CPU architecture, and damn it sounds exciting.

The Talos Principle now renders correctly in 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, Sep 27, 2016

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Good news for Vulkan and AMD GPU fans, as David Airlie has put up a new blog post letting us know that The Talos Principle now renders correctly in this new open source AMD Vulkan driver.

The open source Vulkan driver for AMD can now run Dota 2

By Liam Dawe, Aug 26, 2016

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A pretty good milestone has been achieved with the open source Vulkan driver for AMD that Dave Airlie has been working on with Bas Nieuwenhuizen. It can now run Dota 2.

Arch users have a kernel available that will allow AMDGPU and the PRO driver on older cards

By Liam Dawe, Aug 19, 2016

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GOL user nauticalnexus has put up a Linux Kernel for Arch users that will allow you to use AMDGPU and AMDGPU PRO on older AMD cards.

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A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress

By Liam Dawe, Aug 18, 2016

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Marek Olšák has recently sent word to the AMD mailing list that they have found a reason for some games performing poorly using Mesa. Another developer noted that a patch is already in progress.

Mesa patches greatly improve Bioshock Infinite performance for the RadeonSI AMD driver

By Liam Dawe, Aug 2, 2016

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For those of you using the RadeonSI driver for AMD graphics cards, you may be interested to know that a developer named Marek has sent in patches to significantly improve performance for Bioshock Infinite.

Dave Airlie has been working on an AMD Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, Jul 23, 2016

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Dave Airlie has been working on an open source AMD Vulkan driver and he's ready to show it off a little bit.

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The AMD RX 480 seems to have power issues you may want to be aware of

By Liam Dawe, Jul 2, 2016

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The brand new AMD RX 480 seems to have an issue of drawing too much power through the pci-e port, so you may want to hold off on buying one of the first lot for now.

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Check out this AMD video talking about Vulkan (and DirectX12)

By Liam Dawe, Jun 29, 2016

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AMD have released a nice video talking about Vulkan (and DirectX 12), it's also nice to hear Linux & SteamOS mentioned.

AMD RX 480 released, AMD will possibly open up Radeon Software

By Liam Dawe, Jun 29, 2016

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The next generation of AMD GPU's have launched, and it begins with the AMD RX 480. Benchmarks are now out there along with plenty of info.

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AMD will be hosting a reddit 'ask me anything' and giving away 14 RX 480 graphics cards

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2016

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AMD are doing something pretty amazing, they will be doing a reddit AMA with the chance of anyone who comments to win one of fourteen of their brand new RX 480 graphics cards.

SteamOS 2.80 beta released, brings the AMD GPU PRO driver for Vulkan and VDPAU support

By Liam Dawe, May 26, 2016

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Probably one of the more interesting releases of SteamOS recently. SteamOS 2.80 is now in beta which brings with it some fun changes for AMD GPU users.

Linux & Steam running on the PS4 playing Bastion is impressive

By Liam Dawe, May 22, 2016

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What you can do what Linux always impresses me, but this has to be what has impressed me the most recently.

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AMD GPU-PRO Beta Driver for Linux released with Vulkan support for Dota 2

By Liam Dawe, May 22, 2016

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AMD have released another Beta of their new AMD GPU-PRO. It brings in support for the new Vulkan API in Dota 2 which is expected to release this coming week.

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