Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further
Released yesterday, both Mesa 18.1.8 as a bug-fix release and Mesa 18.2.0 as the latest full release of the open source graphics drivers are now out.
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Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile for radeonsi
Good news for those of you using an AMD GPU, as Mesa with radeonsi now has support for compatibility profiles up to OpenGL 4.4.
Mesa 18.1 is out with the shader cache on for Intel
Open source drivers on Linux have advanced rather quickly and now we have another fresh release out with Mesa 18.1 which was released yesterday.
Rise of the Tomb Raider tested on AMD RX 580
To go along with Liam’s benchmarks of the game on his Nvidia GPU, I decided to also run some tests on my RX 580 to give you a picture of the AMD performance of the Rise of the Tomb Raider port. So, let’s go!
Some reflections on radv, the first open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs
With recent commits that fix bugs and allow newer Vega cards to pass tests for official conformance, development for radv continues apace. It’s a good time to look back and talk about just how far the driver has come in such a short time.
Mesa 17.3.0 released to further advance open source graphics drivers
Mesa 17.3.0 is the latest version of the open source graphics drivers and it has officially released today.
Feral Interactive continues to contribute to Mesa as one of its developers gets commit privileges
Alex Smith of Feral has been granted the right to push code into Mesa, a continuing sign of the commitment of Feral to Mesa and Vulkan.
The RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs now has a shader cache in Mesa, plus more Mesa news
Following on from the OpenGL shader cache, RADV the open source Vulkan driver for AMD cards can also now make use of a shader cache.
Mesa now has more games in the whitelist for threaded GL
The threaded GL dispatch code to speed up some Linux games currently uses a Whitelist and now more games have been added.
Mesa 17.2 officially released
The open source graphics drivers, Mesa, have been updated to 17.2 which is a major new release bringing in many changes.
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.
Mesa has a few more games in the threaded OpenGL whitelist as of today
Landing in the public Mesa-git mailing list within the last few minutes, more games have been added to the whitelist to make use of threaded OpenGL for better performance.
OpenGL multithreading in Mesa is ready for wider testing
A Mesa developer wrote into the public Mesa-dev mailing list to ask for testers of OpenGL multithreading in Mesa so that they can grow the whitelist of games that will use it.
More optimizations on the way for Dawn of War III in Mesa
A Mesa developer has put out a set of 42 patches to help improve Dawn of War III performance on Linux using Mesa. It focuses on the use of KHR_no_error to save some more CPU time.
The Mesa OpenGL threaded dispatch code seems to now use a whitelist, improving some games performance
It seems the OpenGL threaded dispatch code to speed up some games in Mesa now uses a whitelist, with a few games now able to make use of it.
The Witcher 2 & Rocket League have fixes ready in Mesa-git
The Witcher 2 & Rocket League now have some fixes available in Mesa-git ready for Mesa 17.2 that should give you a better experience.
Trying the experimental GCN 1.0 support in AMDGPU
Inspired by the recent release of Dawn of War 3, I decided to try out the experimental GCN 1.0 support in the new AMDGPU kernel driver and share my experiences.
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.
Mesa has a big patch set in the Mesa-dev list to improve Dawn of War III performance, also Mesa 17.1.2 released
With the big Dawn of War III release getting closer, one Mesa developer has put some serious effort into getting Mesa ready to game on.
Mesa 17.1.1 officially released
The Mesa team has officially released Mesa 17.1.1 which is a bug fix release to provide better stability in the open source graphics drivers.
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