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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.
Category: AMD
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'.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' now supports using multiple GPUs
A commit that just landed in Mesa-git allows for 'radv', the open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to use multiple devices.
A Valve developer has released a tool to debug AMD graphics cards on Linux
Andres Rodriguez sent in a message to the mesa-dev mailing list announcing 'gputool' for debugging AMD graphics cards on Linux. It's also open source under the GPL, so that's awesome.
Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has tweeted out asking for information on Linux games that don't currently work with radeonsi.
Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi
Mesa has another patch that will be interesting for Linux gamers. This is actually a two-part fix as it was re-worked. The Witcher 2 should have a lot less black flickering with this latest patch.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown should now work properly with radeonsi
If you had tried playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown (not to be confused with XCOM 2) on radeonsi and had it crash constantly, the good news is that this should now be fixed as of Mesa 13.0.3.
Mesa git has pulled in the patches from Marek to improve Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Linux
I recently pointed out that Marek sent in patches to the Mesa list which could improve Deus Ex: Mankind Divided performance on RadeonSI around 70%, well all of the patches are now in Mesa git.
Mesa 13.0.3 released with numerous bugfixes
The open source OpenGL implementation Mesa has a new release 13.0.3 which, as the minor version bump indicates, brings a number of bug fixes to RadeonSI and Intel.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is about to get ~70% better performance with RadeonSI
Marek sent in a patch for RadeonSI that will look to increase performance of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by around 70%.
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