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Mesa 19.3 Articles & Reviews

Mesa 19.3 Is Introducing A Lot Of Open-Source OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Improvements   Display Drivers   2019-12-10
RADV's ACO Back-End Is Helping Radeon Navi Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2019-11-22
Zink Benchmarks - Mesa OpenGL Running Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2019-11-17
Ubuntu 19.10 Radeon Linux Gaming Performance Plus Linux 5.4 / Mesa 19.3 Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2019-10-29
Radeon RADV "ACO" Performance On Mesa 19.3 Looking Good   Display Drivers   2019-10-05
Intel's Gallium3D Driver Is Running Much Faster Than Their Current OpenGL Linux Driver With Mesa 19.3   Display Drivers   2019-09-15

Mesa 19.3 Linux & Open-Source News

Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance   Mesa   2021-01-01
New Intel Linux Features, Timely Hardware Support & More From Intel In 2020   Intel   2020-12-30
NixOS 20.03 Released Atop Linux 5.4, Various Desktop/Display Improvements   Operating Systems   2020-04-21
RADV Lands AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Fix For DOOM Eternal On Linux Under Steam Play   Radeon   2020-03-25
Mesa 19.3.5 Released To End Out The Series, Time To Move To Mesa 20.0   Mesa   2020-03-09
Mesa 20.0 Released With Big Improvements For Intel, AMD Radeon Vulkan/OpenGL   Mesa   2020-02-19
Mesa 20.0-RC3 Released Along With Mesa 19.3.4 As The Latest Of The Stable Series   Mesa   2020-02-14
Radeon "sisched" Scheduler Is Made Obsolete By RADV's ACO Back-End   Radeon   2020-02-13
Zink In Mesa For OpenGL Over Vulkan Should Be Back To Supporting OpenGL 3.0 Soon   Mesa   2020-02-08
New Raspbian Release Brings File Manager Improvements, Mesa 19.3.2 For OpenGL ES 3.1   Operating Systems   2020-02-07
Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving   Nouveau   2020-02-01
Mesa 19.3.3 Released With Many Fixes   Mesa   2020-01-28
Solus 4.1 Released With Application Changes, ESYNC Support For Linux Gaming   Operating Systems   2020-01-25
Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL   Intel   2020-01-24
Valve's ACO Shader Compiler Back-End For Radeon Vulkan Is Now In Good Shape For GCN 1.0   Radeon   2020-01-23
Android-x86 Is Still Working Towards Its 9.0 "Pie" Release   Operating Systems   2020-01-22
A Slew Of ACO Optimizations For The Radeon Vulkan Driver Landed In Mesa 20.0   Mesa   2020-01-15
Mesa 19.3.2 Released With All The Intel + AMD Driver Fixes From Over The Holidays   Mesa   2020-01-09
Mesa 19.3.1 Released With A Few Intel + Radeon Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-12-18
Mesa 20.0-devel Intel Gallium3D Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good For Ice Lake   Intel   2019-12-14
Mesa 19.3 Released With Big Updates For Intel's Open-Source Drivers, Valve ACO Option   Mesa   2019-12-12
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Continuing To See Performance Optimizations On Mesa 20.0   Intel   2019-12-12
RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs   Mesa   2019-12-10
Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To Build By Default   Mesa   2019-12-07
Mesa 19.3 Might Release Next Week But For Now There's RC6 With Several ACO+RADV Fixes   Mesa   2019-12-04
Mesa Adds Option For Changing Intel's OpenGL Driver Default   Mesa   2019-12-02
Mesa 19.3-RC5 Brings RADV Secure Compile Update, Other Fixes   Mesa   2019-11-28
AMD's RadeonSI Driver Finally Enables OpenGL 4.6 But You Need To First Enable NIR   Radeon   2019-11-27
AMDVLK 2019.Q4.3 Released With New Extensions + Navi 14 Support   Radeon   2019-11-27
Valve's Open-Source Driver Developers Revise Their RADV "Secure Compile" Feature   Radeon   2019-11-25
Intel's Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Achieves OpenGL 4.6 Conformance   Intel   2019-11-21
Mesa 19.3.0 Not Expected Until December - RC4 Released With ACO Fixes   Mesa   2019-11-21
Mesa 19.2.5 Released With Intel Vulkan + RadeonSI Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-11-20
Intel Iris Plus Ice Lake Graphics Run Great With Mesa 19.3's Gallium3D Driver   Intel   2019-11-20
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Timeline Semaphore Support   Intel   2019-11-12
Mesa 19.3-RC2 Released With Fixes To RADV Vulkan, Intel Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-11-07
Mesa 19.2.3 Released With Many Fixes While Waiting For Mesa 19.3 In A Few Weeks   Mesa   2019-11-06
Additional Intel "ANV" Vulkan Driver Performance Numbers For Gen11 Ice Lake Graphics   Intel   2019-11-06
Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code   Intel   2019-10-31
Mesa 19.3-RC1 Released With OpenGL 4.6 For Intel, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2019-10-30
Mesa 19.3 Has The Very Preliminary OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Support Ready For Intel Gen12   Mesa   2019-10-30
Radeon Open-Source Linux Graphics Have A Wild Day For Mesa 19.3 From 8K Decode To ACO   Radeon   2019-10-30
Mesa 19.3 Adds Support For New AMDGPU Reset Interface   Mesa   2019-10-29
A Lot More Intel Tiger Lake / Gen12 Xe Graphics Code Merged To Mesa 19.3   Mesa   2019-10-29
Zink Merged Into Mesa 19.3 For Offering OpenGL Over Vulkan   Mesa   2019-10-28
Valve Adds RADV "Secure Compile" Support For Pre-Caching Game Shaders   Valve   2019-10-26
RADV Vulkan Driver's ACO Compiler Back-End Has Navi/GFX10 Nearly Squared Away   Mesa   2019-10-26
Intel's ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Memory Model Support   Intel   2019-10-25
Mesa 19.2.2 Brings Fixes For Solaris/Illumos, Continued Fixes For Intel ANV + Radeon RADV   Mesa   2019-10-25
Zink Is Almost In Mesa For Offering OpenGL 2.1 / GLES 2.0 Over Vulkan   Mesa   2019-10-24
RADV Lands More Fixes + Performance Improvements Into Mesa 19.3   Radeon   2019-10-23
Mesa 19.1.8 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2019-10-22
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Lands OpenGL ES 3.1 Bits In Mesa 19.3-devel   Mesa   2019-10-21
AMD Lands Greater Direct State Access Support Within Mesa   Mesa   2019-10-20
Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3   Mesa   2019-10-18
Intel Now Aiming For Gallium3D OpenGL Default For Mesa 20.0   Intel   2019-10-16
TURNIP Vulkan Driver Gets MSAA Working   Mesa   2019-10-16
Tons Of The Intel Tiger Lake "Gen 12" Graphics Compiler Code Just Landed In Mesa 19.3   Intel   2019-10-11
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1   Mesa   2019-10-11
Valve's Radeon "ACO" Vulkan Compiler Back-End Now Supports Navi   Valve   2019-10-10
Intel ANV & Radeon RADV Vulkan Drivers Tacking On More Extensions With Mesa 19.3   Mesa   2019-10-09
RadeonSI Adds Zeroing vRAM Workaround To Help Rocket League Players   Radeon   2019-10-08
Navi 14 AMDGPU Firmware Lands In The Linux-Firmware.Git Tree   Radeon   2019-10-08
AMD Announces Navi 14 Based Radeon RX 5500 Series   AMD   2019-10-07
Zink's OpenGL Over Vulkan Implementation Aiming For Mesa 19.3 Integration   Mesa   2019-10-05
The ACO Radeon Compiler Alternative To AMDGPU LLVM Looks Good But Work Isn't Done Yet   Radeon   2019-10-04
AMDGPU Submits LRU Bulk Moves Support As A Linux 5.4 "Fix" For Better Performance   Radeon   2019-10-03
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Focusing On Bettering The Arm Midgard Support   Mesa   2019-10-02
Mesa 19.2 Released With Navi Support, Much Improved Intel Gallium3D   Mesa   2019-09-25
The Surge 2 Sees Same-Day Linux Support Via Steam Play, RADV Workaround Needed   Linux Gaming   2019-09-24
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Stack Cutting Down On PCI ID Table Duplication   Radeon   2019-09-24
AMD Navi 10 Firmware Finally Lands In The Linux-Firmware Tree   Radeon   2019-09-23
Lima Gallium3D Picks Up A Buffer Object Cache, Partial Updates   Mesa   2019-09-23
Nouveau Finally Lands SPIR-V Support As Part Of OpenCL Push   Nouveau   2019-09-21
Valve's ACO Shader Compiler For The Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver Just Landed   Mesa   2019-09-19
Mesa's Disk Cache Code Now Better Caters To 4+ Core Systems   Linux Gaming   2019-09-19
Performance-Boosting DFSM Support Flipped On & Off For RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2019-09-19
Intel's Gallium3D OpenGL Driver Taps Another Optimization - ~32% For GFXBench   Intel   2019-09-18
Valve's ACO Shader Compiler Under Review For The Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2019-09-18
Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Tackling NGG Stream-Out   Radeon   2019-09-16
Intel's Gallium3D Linux Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2019-09-11
Intel's Gallium3D Driver Gains Optimization For Helping With Java OpenGL Performance   Intel   2019-09-10
Mesa 19.3 Now Exposes Its Own GL_MESA_EGL_sync OpenGL Extension   Mesa   2019-09-08
Intel Linux Graphics Stack Gets Another Speed Boost - Helping Civilization VI By ~18%   Intel   2019-09-06
Mesa Gets One Line Fix To Help With KDE KWin Crashing   KDE   2019-09-06
Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support   Mesa   2019-09-04
Intel Begins Setting Up Driver Mappings For Classic vs. Gallium3D OpenGL Linux Drivers   Intel   2019-08-29
Navi 14 Is Ready To Go On Mesa 19.3 Git & Back-Ported To Mesa 19.2   Mesa   2019-08-29
AMD To Land Support For Navi 14 Into The Upcoming Mesa 19.2 Driver Stack   Radeon   2019-08-27
Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions   Mesa   2019-08-27
Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver Sees ~30% Performance Boost For APUs   Mesa   2019-08-24
Intel Iris Gallium3D Is Close With SPIR-V Support For OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2019-08-24
Intel's OpenGL Linux Driver Now Has OpenGL 4.6 Support For Mesa 19.2   Intel   2019-08-21
Mesa 19.2's Feature Freeze / Release Candidate Process Beginning Tomorrow   Mesa   2019-08-19
Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Navi Wave32 Support For Compute Shaders   Radeon   2019-07-31
AMDGPU & RadeonSI Linux Drivers See More Navi Optimizations + Fixes   Radeon   2019-07-10
Intel's Gallium3D Driver Will Now Try To Recover From GPU Hangs   Mesa   2019-05-12
Intel Aiming For Their Gallium3D Driver To Be Viable By Mesa 19.2, Default By EOY 2019   Intel   2019-04-25
Mesa Driver Releases For 2019 Get Plotted Out From 19.0 To 19.3   Mesa   2019-01-08