Mesa is an open-source OpenGL implementation and consists of both hardware drivers (e.g. Intel, Radeon, Nouveau, et al) along with software drivers (Softpipe, LLVMpipe). The Gallium3D component of Mesa provides not only OpenGL support but also video acceleration (VDPAU), compute support (OpenCL), and other capabilities for modern GPUs.

Mesa Articles & Reviews

The Performance Benefits To Upgrading Mesa With Intel Arc B390 On Ubuntu Linux   Display Drivers   2026-08-06
Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2026-03-26
AMD RDNA3/RDNA4 Go Down Hard On Linux 6.19, But Here's How The Older AMD GPUs End Out 2025   Display Drivers   2025-12-26
Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV AMD Radeon Vulkan Drivers   Display Drivers   2025-12-25
AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Open-Source Linux Performance For 2025   Graphics Cards   2025-12-18
NVIDIA GTX 980 Through RTX 5080: Open-Source Nouveau/Mesa Drivers vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2025-12-11
Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2025-11-28
Rusticl Performance For AMD Strix Halo Against ROCm OpenCL   Display Drivers   2025-10-03
Rusticl vs. Intel Compute Runtime Performance For OpenCL On Battlemage   Display Drivers   2025-08-26
Rusticl vs. AMD ROCm Performance On Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo"   Display Drivers   2025-08-19
AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2   Display Drivers   2025-07-21
Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series   Display Drivers   2025-07-14
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2   Display Drivers   2025-07-11
RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics   Display Drivers   2025-06-27
Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Performance For The AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series   Display Drivers   2025-03-20
AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2025-01-22
NVIDIA R565 vs. Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0 Git AMD / Intel Graphics For Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2024-12-09
RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024   Display Drivers   2024-07-17
AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Core Ultra 7 "Meteor Lake" In 400+ Benchmarks On Linux 6.10   Computers   2024-07-01
Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10   Display Drivers   2023-10-13
Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2023-08-11
AMD Radeon PRO W7500/W7600 Deliver Great Open-Source Linux Performance At Launch   Graphics Cards   2023-08-03
Intel Scores Another Nice Arc Graphics Boost On Linux For Summer 2023   Display Drivers   2023-07-25
Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Nice ~10% Speedup With Recent Open-Source Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2023-07-17
RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel   Display Drivers   2023-06-06
AMDVLK vs. Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance On Linux   Display Drivers   2023-06-02
NVIDIA R530 vs. AMD Linux 6.3 + Mesa 23.2-dev Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2023-05-19
The Current Intel Arc Graphics Linux Gaming Performance On Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.1-dev   Linux Gaming   2023-03-20
AMD Radeon vs. Intel Arc Graphics With Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0   Display Drivers   2023-01-12
Radeon Gaming/Graphics Performance: Windows 11 vs. Linux GPU Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2022-12-29
AMD Radeon With Linux 6.1 + Mesa 23.0-dev vs. NVIDIA R525 Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2022-12-02
Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Performance Ahead Of Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0   Display Drivers   2022-11-30
Intel Arc Graphics A380: Compelling For Open-Source Enthusiasts & Developers At ~$139   Graphics Cards   2022-08-29
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Benchmarks Are Very Competitive To Radeon OpenGL Driver   Display Drivers   2022-08-22
Mesa 22.2 Gaming Performance With Radeon RX 6700/6800 XT Graphics Cards On Linux   Display Drivers   2022-08-12
Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Continues Outperforming AMDVLK For RDNA2 Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2022-06-28
Upgrading Ubuntu 22.04's Kernel & Mesa For Better AMD RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2022-06-01
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Looking Quite Good & Shining With Mesa 22.1   Display Drivers   2022-05-06
Mesa 22.1-rc1 AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   2022-04-22
Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Graphics In Great Shape For Workstations, Handily Beating Proprietary Driver   Display Drivers   2022-03-07
AMD Radeon Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Performance: 2020 vs. 2021   Display Drivers   2022-01-07
Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Holds A Narrowing Lead Over AMDVLK With Ubuntu 21.10 On Wayland   Display Drivers   2021-12-30
Linux 5.16 Has A Nice Performance Gift For AMD Ryzen Laptops With Radeon Graphics   Display Drivers   2021-12-24
Zink Is Ending 2021 In Fantastic Shape For OpenGL Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-11-30
Linux & Mesa Driver Comparison For Intel Core i5 12600K / UHD Graphics 770   Display Drivers   2021-11-18
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX / ASUS ROG Strix G15 Is A Nicer Experience On Ubuntu 21.10   Operating Systems   2021-10-07
Radeon Software 21.30 PRO vs. Mesa 21.3-devel + Linux 5.15 Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2021-10-06
Zink Mesa 21.3-dev Benchmarks - Increasingly Capable Of Running OpenGL Games Atop Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-08-23
Radeon RX 6600/6700/6800 XT: RADV vs. PRO Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-08-11
Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Performance For July 2021   Display Drivers   2021-07-23
Linux Gaming Performance With Radeon Vulkan NGG Culling   Display Drivers   2021-07-16
Another Test Drive With Crocus Gallium3D On Old Intel Hardware   Display Drivers   2021-06-24
Running The New Intel OpenGL "Crocus" Gallium3D Driver On Sandy Bridge   Display Drivers   2021-06-21
Mesa's New "Crocus" OpenGL Driver Is Performing Well For Old Intel Hardware   Display Drivers   2021-06-15
Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2021-04-12
RADV+ACO Look To Your Help For Improving The Vulkan Driver & Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2021-02-09
Mesa 21.0 Has Many New Features Especially For Radeon Open-Source Graphics   Display Drivers   2021-02-04
Radeon RX 6800 Series Linux Performance Nearly Three Months After Launch   Graphics Cards   2021-02-02
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance As Of January 2021   Display Drivers   2021-01-22
Mesa 21.0-devel RADV vs. AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-01-13
Mesa 20.3 + Linux 5.9 Is In Great Shape Against AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2020-09-14
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Linux 5.9 + Mesa 20.3-devel Radeon Graphics Performance   Linux Gaming   2020-08-25
Radeon RADV+ACO Vulkan Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 20.2   Display Drivers   2020-07-13
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance On Mesa 20.1 Looking Good With RADV+ACO   Display Drivers   2020-05-04
Radeon Software 20.10 vs. Upstream Linux AMD Radeon OpenGL / Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2020-04-24
Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2020-03-16
Basemark GPU 1.2 Brings Linux Support - Wins For NVIDIA, Woes For Mesa   Display Drivers   2020-03-09
20-Way GPU Gaming Comparison With March 2020 Linux Drivers   Linux Gaming   2020-03-04
The Current RADV+ACO Mesa Driver Performance For February 2020   Display Drivers   2020-02-24
Mesa 20.0 Is Imminent With New Intel OpenGL Default, Intel + RADV Vulkan 1.2, OpenGL 4.6 For RadeonSI   Display Drivers   2020-02-19
Valve's ACO Helps Put New Life Into Radeon GCN 1.0 GPUs With ~9% Better Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2020-01-30
Mesa 20.0's RADV + ACO Vulkan Driver Now Consistently Beating AMD's AMDVLK Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2019-12-19
Mesa 19.3 Is Introducing A Lot Of Open-Source OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Improvements   Display Drivers   2019-12-10
RadeonSI NIR Benchmarks Show Great Progress With Mesa 20.0   Display Drivers   2019-12-06
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
Intel's New OpenGL Driver Is Looking Really Great With The Upcoming Mesa 19.2   Display Drivers   2019-08-21
Another Look At The Maturing AMD Radeon RX 5700 Series Linux Performance   Display Drivers   2019-08-05
Radeon RX 5700 / RX 5700 XT Linux Gaming Performance With AMDGPU 5.3 + Mesa 19.2-devel   Graphics Cards   2019-07-29
Benchmarking Valve's RADV+ACO Yields Fastest Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2019-07-08
Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Performance With Polaris/Vega/Vega20 vs. NVIDIA On Ubuntu 19.04   Display Drivers   2019-06-26
The Latest Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Radeon Performance Against NVIDIA With Mid-Range GPUs   Display Drivers   2019-06-21
AMDVLK Still Has Some Performance Advantages Over Mesa's Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver, But It's A Good Fight   Display Drivers   2019-05-30
Mesa 19.1's New Features From The Intel Gallium3D Driver To New Drivers & Vulkan Optimizations   Software   2019-05-28
Intel's Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Seeing Minor Performance Gains With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-26
The RadeonSI/RADV Performance With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-25
The New Intel Gallium3D OpenGL Driver Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-09
LG's 4K FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync Display For Just $219 USD   Computers   2019-05-01
The Current Intel "Iris" Gallium3D OpenGL Performance Against i965 Mesa, Windows 10 OpenGL   Display Drivers   2019-04-15
AMDVLK vs. RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance For Linux Gaming On Ubuntu 19.04   Display Drivers   2019-04-11
AMDGPU vs. Radeon Kernel Driver Performance On Linux 5.0 For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Computers   2019-03-07
Intel Iris Pro 6200 Graphics - i965 vs. Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Performance   Display Drivers   2019-03-05
Early Intel i965 vs. Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Benchmarks On UHD Graphics 620 With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-02-21
Running The RadeonSI NIR Back-End With Mesa 19.1 Git   Display Drivers   2019-02-10
The Performance Benefits To Running AMD's Radeon VII With Linux 5.0 + Mesa 19.0   Display Drivers   2019-02-07
NVIDIA vs. Radeon Linux 5.0 + Mesa 19.0 Drivers - 14-Way Gaming GPU Comparison   Linux Gaming   2019-01-29
Mesa 18.2 vs. 18.3 vs. 19.0 January Benchmarks For RadeonSI/RADV   Display Drivers   2019-01-21
Mesa 19.0 RADV vs. AMDVLK 2019.Q1.2 vs. Radeon Software 18.50 Linux Vulkan Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-01-17
The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-20
Radeon Software 18.50 vs. Linux 4.20 + Mesa 19 Benchmarks On The AMD RX 590   Display Drivers   2018-12-18
1080p Linux Gaming Performance - NVIDIA 415.22 vs. Mesa 19.0-devel RADV/RadeonSI   Linux Gaming   2018-12-16
An Initial Look At The Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-12-11
The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux Driver Performance At The End Of 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-10
Radeon Vulkan Driver Benchmarks: AMDVLK 2018.4.2 vs. AMDGPU-PRO 18.40 vs. Mesa 18.2/19.0   Display Drivers   2018-11-25
The Polaris/Vega Performance At The End Of Mesa 18.3 Feature Development   Linux Gaming   2018-11-09
Radeon Software 18.40 vs. Mesa vs. AMDVLK Benchmarks With Radeon RX Vega   Display Drivers   2018-10-26
Ubuntu 18.10 Is A Nice Upgrade For Radeon Gamers, Especially For Steam VR   Operating Systems   2018-10-18
RADV vs. AMDVLK vs. Radeon Software Vulkan Driver Performance - October 2018 Linux Gaming   Display Drivers   2018-10-04
The Linux 4.19 AMDGPU + Mesa 18.3 Performance From The Radeon HD 7950 To RX Vega 64   Display Drivers   2018-09-09
The Tighter NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Battle With 396.54 + Mesa 18.3-dev Drivers   Display Drivers   2018-08-28
AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Pro/Open vs. Upstream Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Radeon Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-08-23
Linux 4.18 AMDGPU Tests: Vega Taking A Hit   Display Drivers   2018-07-10
Mesa 18.0/18.1/18.2 RadeonSI + RADV Benchmark Comparison With Radeon RX 580 / R9 Fury / RX Vega 64   Display Drivers   2018-07-03
Radeon Software 18.20 vs. Mesa 18.2 RadeonSI/RADV Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-06-26
A Look At The RadeonSI/RADV Performance From Mesa 17.2 To Mesa 18.2   Display Drivers   2018-06-05
A Look At The Intel UHD Graphics Performance On Clear Linux With Linux 4.16 + Mesa 18.2   Operating Systems   2018-06-03
Clear Linux Now Offers Radeon Mesa Graphics Support, Yields Speed Advantage In Some Tests   Operating Systems   2018-06-02
Raven Ridge With The Ryzen 5 2400G On Mesa 18.2 + Linux 4.17 Is Finally Stable   Linux Gaming   2018-05-19
RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-05-08
Radeon Software 18.10 vs. Mesa 18.2 RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-05-03
Rise of the Tomb Raider Linux Performance On AMD Radeon GPUs   Linux Gaming   2018-04-19
RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Drivers Continue Stiff Performance Battle   Display Drivers   2018-04-18
Radeon GPUs Are Increasingly Competing With NVIDIA GPUs On Latest RadeonSI/RADV Drivers   Linux Gaming   2018-03-19
Intel Coffee Lake OpenGL Performance On Windows 10 vs. Linux   Operating Systems   2018-02-21
RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Is Still A Better Bet Than AMDVLK In February 2018   Display Drivers   2018-02-12
Mesa 12.0 To Mesa 18.0 Benchmarks Show The OpenGL/Vulkan Radeon Evolution   Display Drivers   2018-02-05
Intel OpenGL/Vulkan Performance Edging Slightly Higher With Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-31
RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks On Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-30
Mesa 18.0 Features Include Many OpenGL/Vulkan Improvements, Intel Shader Cache & Extras   Display Drivers   2018-01-28
Intel OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance With Mesa 18.0   Display Drivers   2018-01-21
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At The Start Of 2018   Display Drivers   2018-01-10
RADV Vulkan Gaming Getting Closer To RadeonSI OpenGL Performance   Linux Gaming   2017-12-31
RADV Vulkan Driver Ends The Year On A High Note With A Performance Boost   Display Drivers   2017-12-29
A Closer Look At The AMDVLK vs. RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-27
R600g/RadeonSI Gallium3D Performance At The End Of 2017   Display Drivers   2017-12-26
AMDVLK vs. RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO 17.50 Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-24
AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM Driver Performance On Linux 4.15   Display Drivers   2017-12-21
NVIDIA 387.34 vs. Linux 4.15 + Mesa 17.4-dev Radeon OpenGL/Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2017-12-09
Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.15 + Mesa 17.4-dev Radeon Gaming Performance   Operating Systems   2017-11-29
Intel's Mesa GLSL Shader Cache Is Speeding Up Game Load Times   Linux Gaming   2017-11-16
Ubuntu 17.10 Radeon Performance: Stock vs. X-Swat Updates vs. Oibaf PPA vs. Pkppa vs. Padoka PPA   Operating Systems   2017-11-14
Mesa 17.3 Features - Vulkan Updates, Better Performance   Display Drivers   2017-11-06
Nouveau Linux 4.14 + Mesa 17.4-dev vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   2017-11-05
18-Way Radeon GPU Benchmarks On Ubuntu 17.10 With Linux 4.14 + Mesa 17.4-dev   Graphics Cards   2017-11-01
AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM With Linux 4.14 On GCN 1.0/SI GPUs   Display Drivers   2017-10-29
RadeonSI/RADV Mesa 17.3 + AMDGPU DC vs. NVIDIA 387.12 Linux Gaming Performance   Graphics Cards   2017-10-25
Mesa 17.3 With RADV Vulkan Running Great With Polaris, Starts To Outperform AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2017-10-24

Mesa Linux & Open-Source News

Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs   Intel   2026-08-12
Rusticl Now Supports cl_ext_float_atomics   Mesa   2026-08-11
Mesa 26.3 Intel Driver Code Enables Large GRF Mode For Newer GPUs   Intel   2026-08-09
AI Helped Create A DirectX 11 Driver For QEMU VMs   Virtualization   2026-08-08
AMD GFX1171 Support Merged For Mesa 26.3   Radeon   2026-08-06
Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2026-08-05
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance   KDE   2026-08-01
Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default   Nouveau   2026-07-31
Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC   Nouveau   2026-07-31
Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2026-07-30
Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows   Radeon   2026-07-29
Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2026-07-27
Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3   Free Software   2026-07-24
NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver   Nouveau   2026-07-18
Frame: A New X11 Server Implementation Written Entirely In x86_64 Assembly   X.Org   2026-07-16
Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520   Hardware   2026-07-16
Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack   Mesa   2026-07-15
Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4   Mesa   2026-07-15
Khronos Lists First Conformant OpenCL 3.1 Implementation: Apple M1/M2 On Asahi Linux With Rusticl   Standards   2026-07-14
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding   Intel   2026-07-14
Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default   Mesa   2026-07-11
HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit   Intel   2026-07-10
Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 + HMFT Within Mesa 26.2   Microsoft   2026-07-06
Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode Now Working For Intel Alchemist GPUs On Linux   Intel   2026-07-06
Marek Olšák At Valve Lands RADV Code That Can "Double Performance" With Some VRS Cases   Radeon   2026-07-06
DXVK 3.0.1 Released With More Game Fixes, Other Improvements   Linux Gaming   2026-07-05
AMD Begins Staging Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.3   AMD   2026-07-05
Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2   Mesa   2026-07-02
RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Radeon   2026-07-01
Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights   Phoronix   2026-07-01
AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, Improvements For Old GPUs & Other AMD Linux Highlights In Q2   AMD   2026-06-30
RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default   Radeon   2026-06-29
Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy   Operating Systems   2026-06-28
USB4STREAM, Optimizations, Jay & Other Popular Intel Linux News From This Quarter   Intel   2026-06-28
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Enables Descriptor Heaps By Default   Intel   2026-06-26
Open-Source Driver For ATI R300 Era GPUs Seeing Improved Power Mac Support In 2026   Radeon   2026-06-23
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers   Mesa   2026-06-22
Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland   Mesa   2026-06-21
Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Now Supports DLSS   Mesa   2026-06-19
Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Early Support For Nova Lake, Introduces Experimental "LEO"   Intel   2026-06-16
Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics   Radeon   2026-06-11
RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching   Radeon   2026-06-10
Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline   Hardware   2026-06-09
Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot   Radeon   2026-06-08
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode   Mesa   2026-06-07
Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing   Hardware   2026-06-07
Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver   Valve   2026-06-06
Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language   Vulkan   2026-06-06
Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT   Radeon   2026-06-04
New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers   Mesa   2026-06-03
Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver   Radeon   2026-06-02
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support   Nouveau   2026-06-02
Dell Uses Intel Wildcat Lake To Deliver Their Cheapest XPS 13 Ever   Hardware   2026-05-31
Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support   Radeon   2026-05-29
Linux 7.2's Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100   Nouveau   2026-05-28
24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework   Radeon   2026-05-28
KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics   Mesa   2026-05-28
Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2026-05-27
VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support   Valve   2026-05-27
RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma   Radeon   2026-05-25
Mageia 10 RC1 Released With Newer Packages   Operating Systems   2026-05-19
Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux   Linux Gaming   2026-05-17
Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve   Valve   2026-05-16
Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers   Radeon   2026-05-13
Arm Mali G1 Pro Now Working With Open-Source PanVK & Panfrost Drivers   Mesa   2026-05-13
Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026   Radeon   2026-05-11
Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements   Intel   2026-05-11
OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software   Free Software   2026-05-08
AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds   Radeon   2026-05-07
Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2026-05-06
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"   Intel   2026-05-06
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps   Intel   2026-05-05
Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan   Mesa   2026-05-05
Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure   Intel   2026-05-05
OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads   Standards   2026-05-05
Mesa Begins Seeing Patch Activity For AMD GFX12.1 Graphics   Radeon   2026-05-04
EndeavourOS "Triton" To Ship New Desktop/WM Options, Titan Neo Brings Various Updates   Operating Systems   2026-05-01
Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600   Mesa   2026-05-01
RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone   Radeon   2026-04-27
AMD VPE 2.0 Support Merged For Mesa 26.2   Radeon   2026-04-27
RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer   Radeon   2026-04-21
GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8   GNOME   2026-04-19
Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m   Radeon   2026-04-17
Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations   Mesa   2026-04-15
Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play   Radeon   2026-04-14
Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl   Radeon   2026-04-13
Support For AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" Pending For RADV & RadeonSI Drivers   AMD   2026-04-10
Intel's New Shader Compiler "Jay" Merged For Mesa 26.1   Intel   2026-04-10
RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension   Mesa   2026-04-09
Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs   Intel   2026-04-07
Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux   Fedora   2026-04-07
Mesa Developers Decide On Two Gen AI Policies For Development Moving Forward   Mesa   2026-04-06
Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe   Mesa   2026-04-05
Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default   WINE   2026-04-02
AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates   Operating Systems   2026-03-31
Open-Source RadeonSI+Rusticl Nearing Formal OpenCL 3.0 Conformance   Radeon   2026-03-30
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options   Radeon   2026-03-30
RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026   Radeon   2026-03-29
Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1   Intel   2026-03-27
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0   Ubuntu   2026-03-26
Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release   Fedora   2026-03-25
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance   Intel   2026-03-24
Arm Ethos U85 NPU Now Supported By EthosU Gallium3D Driver   Mesa   2026-03-23
OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine   Mesa   2026-03-19
Linux 7.1 Should See Working HDMI Support For The Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V Board   Hardware   2026-03-19
Mesa & AMDGPU Linux Driver See Patches For The Sony PS5 GPU   AMD   2026-03-17
Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL   Mesa   2026-03-16
RADV Driver Lands Another Optimization: "Missing In RADV For A Very Long Time"   Mesa   2026-03-16
Mesa's LLVMpipe Now Exposes Mesh Shader Support   Mesa   2026-03-14
Vulkan 1.4.346 Released With Notable VK_KHR_device_address_commands   Vulkan   2026-03-13
EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration   Arch Linux   2026-03-12
Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect   Radeon   2026-03-12
Mesa 26.0.2 Has Plenty Of Graphics Driver Fixes From Intel & RADV Vulkan To Old R300g   Mesa   2026-03-12
Valve/RADV Developers Look At More Per-Game Tuning/Optimizations For Mesa Drivers   Mesa   2026-03-10
Experimental Intel Nova Lake P Device Bits Merged For Mesa 26.1   Intel   2026-03-08
Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" Driver Still Seeing New Open-Source Activity In 2026   Intel   2026-03-05
Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers   Intel   2026-03-04
Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Another New Fix In 2026   Radeon   2026-03-04
Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February   Phoronix   2026-03-01
Mesa Developers Trying To Reach A Consensus On AI Policy   Mesa   2026-02-27
ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains   Nouveau   2026-02-26
Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux   Intel   2026-02-26
Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU   Mesa   2026-02-25
Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA   Mesa   2026-02-23
Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes   Intel   2026-02-23
Intel Hiring More Linux Developers - Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack   Intel   2026-02-20
Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected   Mesa   2026-02-20
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits   Intel   2026-02-19
Firmware Upstreamed For Supporting The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2's Adreno GPU   Hardware   2026-02-16
Mesa's KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity   Mesa   2026-02-15
NVIDIA Posts Open-Source Nouveau GSP Driver Support For GA100   NVIDIA   2026-02-13
AMD Video Decode Now Unified Between RadeonSI & RADV Vulkan Video   Mesa   2026-02-12
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Now Available With Linux 6.17 HWE Kernel   Ubuntu   2026-02-12
Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS   Operating Systems   2026-02-11
Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2026-02-11
Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For The Old R600g   Mesa   2026-02-07
Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance   Nouveau   2026-02-05
Mesa 26.0-rc3 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2026-02-04
Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To "Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs"   Mesa   2026-02-04
Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing   Intel   2026-02-04
X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto   X.Org   2026-02-03
Linux Kernel AI Chatter, ReactOS Developments & AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Topped January   Phoronix   2026-02-01
AerynOS Establishes Policy Against LLM Contributions, 2026.01 ISO Refresh   Operating Systems   2026-01-30
Open-Source Nova Driver In Linux 7.0 Continues Preparing For NVIDIA Turing GPU Support   Linux Kernel   2026-01-30
Mesa 26.0-rc2 Released With Numerous AMD, NVIDIA & Intel Driver Fixes   Mesa   2026-01-28
Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug   Nouveau   2026-01-28
New Intel Linux Driver Workaround Halves Initial Game Load Time For MHW   Intel   2026-01-27
Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland   Vulkan   2026-01-27
New Intel Linux Code For DG2 Graphics Can Improve Performance As Much As "A Whopping 260%"   Intel   2026-01-27
AMD Radeon Linux Driver Introduces Low-Latency Video Decode Option   Mesa   2026-01-26