Intel announce a new CPU with AMD graphics and HBM2 memory
This is rather fun news, Intel have announced a new CPU that will utilize AMD graphics with HBM2 memory.
Category: AMD
Testing F1 2017 Linux port on AMD GPUs
You have likely read Liam’s thoughts and port review of F1 2017. I am going to complement his work by bringing you some numbers from the AMD side of things with my RX 580 and R7 370. So, hold onto your hats for we are benchmarking now!
Dawn of War III is set to get another small performance improvement with RadeonSI
Arriving in the public Mesa-git mailing list just under an hour ago, another small improvement for RadeonSI with Dawn of War III when using OpenGL.
AMD RX Vega GPUs released along with a new AMDGPU-PRO Driver
The brand new line of AMD GPUs are upon us, with the release of AMD RX Vega along with a new AMDGPU-PRO Driver.
AMDGPU-PRO Driver 17.10 updated, fixes Mad Max on Vulkan
Even though AMD already did an AMDGPU-PRO Driver 17.10 release, they've done another one with the same name. Confusing as ever, but this newer driver has some useful fixes.
Dawn of War III should now work on Mesa-git with OpenGL as Bindless Texture support is in
A large patchset from Mesa developer Samuel Pitoiset landed in Mesa-git early today to hook up Bindless Texture support for AMD radeonsi.
Shadow of Mordor on AMD Ryzen CPU suffers from a performance hit due to non-optimal thread scheduling
While doing some comparative benchmarks between my RX 470 and GTX 1060 on a Ryzen 1700 CPU and an i7-2700k CPU, I encountered odd behaviour with Shadow of Mordor.
RadeonSI has a large patch set in Mesa-dev for ARB_bindless_texture, allows Dawn of War III to work on Mesa
Mesa developer Samuel Pitoiset sent in a set of 65 patches to the Mesa-dev list to enable ARB_bindless_texture for RadeonSI (AMD), this will allow Dawn of War III to work on Mesa.
AMD Ryzen 9 'Threadripper' announced with up to 16 cores
Well then, AMD are truly back in the game now aren't they! They have announced the AMD Ryzen 9 'Threadripper' which will come with up to 16 cores.
Marek submits patch series for threaded Gallium to Mesa, boosts performance in games
AMD employee and Mesa developer Marek Olšák is at it again, proposing a series of patches that would boost performance for AMD GPUs running the open drivers.
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver released
AMD have released their AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver which includes a few important fixes as well as official support for Ubuntu 16.04.2 64bit. It should also fix a Mad Max Vulkan issue.
Dota 2 patched for AMD Ryzen
Valve have put out a small Dota 2 update that aims to improve performance on the new Ryzen processors from AMD.
AMD have announced Ryzen 5 will launch in April
AMD initially launched Ryzen 7 their enthusiast higher performing chips, but now they're gearing up for the lower end with Ryzen 5 which will launch on April 11th.
DiRT Rally tested on R7 370 and an A10-9600p APU
I might be just a bit late with these numbers but I figured I’d share them nonetheless. Let’s check out how well DiRT Rally runs on my Radeon hardware!
LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux
During GDC at the AMD event, a LiquidSky employee stated that their gaming client that streams games to you will have a Linux client.
Mesa now has a shader cache in Mesa-git for r600/radeonsi
Good news for AMD GPU owners on open source drivers, as Mesa-git now has a shader cache enabled for r600 and radeonsi.
AMD officially announce Ryzen 7 CPUs for launch on March 2nd
AMD will be officially releasing their Ryzen 7 CPUs on March 2nd, so there's not long to go! They can be pre-ordered right now too if you're that excited about it.
More performance improvements are on the way for Deus Ex and Tomb Raider on Mesa
Mesa is progressing nicely as usual and I've been keeping an eye on the mailing list for anything interesting. It seems Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Tomb Raider have both seen some more performance tuning.
AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 released for Linux, adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0
AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 is now officially available for AMD GPU owners and it adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0.
Mesa now has a patch to enable a shader cache for radeonsi (AMD)
This will probably be to the delight of many AMD graphics card owners who use the open source Mesa graphics drivers: A patch has been sent into the Mesa-dev mailing list for radeonsi to 'Add disk shader cache'.
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