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RDNA4 Articles & Reviews

ROCm 7.0.0 vs. ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700   Display Drivers   2026-05-14
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
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Offers Competitive Workstation Graphics Performance/Value   Graphics Cards   2025-11-03
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Linux Performance For Single & Dual GPU Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2025-10-27
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2   Display Drivers   2025-07-11
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux GPU Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2025-06-10
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux Performance   Graphics Cards   2025-06-04
Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Performance For The AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series   Display Drivers   2025-03-20
AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance   Graphics Cards   2025-03-05
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2025-03-05
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Officially Announced   Graphics Cards   2025-02-28
AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2025-01-22
Linux 6.11 Kernel Features Deliver A Lot For New/Upcoming Intel & AMD Hardware   Software   2024-08-25

RDNA4 Linux & Open-Source News

RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching   Radeon   2026-06-10
Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT   Radeon   2026-06-04
Mesa Begins Seeing Patch Activity For AMD GFX12.1 Graphics   Radeon   2026-05-04
AMD VPE 2.0 Support Merged For Mesa 26.2   Radeon   2026-04-27
Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m   Radeon   2026-04-17
RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026   Radeon   2026-03-29
Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172   Radeon   2026-03-24
AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP   AMD   2026-03-19
AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 7.1   Radeon   2026-03-16
Linux 7.0-rc4 Released With Hang Fixes, Resolves At Least One Performance Regression   Linux Kernel   2026-03-15
Linux 7.0 AMDGPU Fixing Idle Power Issue For RDNA4 GPUs After Compute Workloads   Radeon   2026-03-13
Mesa 26.0.2 Has Plenty Of Graphics Driver Fixes From Intel & RADV Vulkan To Old R300g   Mesa   2026-03-12
AMD DCN 4.2 IP, GFX 12.1 Updates For AMDGPU Driver In Linux 7.1 Plus GCN 1.1 APU DC   Radeon   2026-03-05
More ISA Differences Come To Light With The New AMD GFX1170 "RDNA 4m"   Radeon   2026-02-18
AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 "RDNA 4m"   Radeon   2026-02-06
Initial AMD GFX13 Target Merged To LLVM 23 Git - Presumably RDNA5   AMD   2026-01-26
AMD Sends In A Variety Of Graphics Driver Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle   Radeon   2026-01-25
AMD Lands Fresh Performance Improvements For RDNA4 In RadeonSI Driver   Radeon   2026-01-22
AMD ROCm 7.2 Now Released With More Radeon Graphics Cards Supported, ROCm Optiq Introduced   AMD   2026-01-21
Important AMDGPU & AMDKFD Driver Improvements Readied For Linux 6.20~7.0   Radeon   2026-01-17
Another RADV Ray-Tracing Merge Lands Some Additional Gains For Mesa 26.0   Radeon   2026-01-14
AMD Enabling New GFX12.1 & More RDNA 3.5 Hardware Blocks With Linux 6.20~7.0   Radeon   2026-01-09
Radeon Linux Driver Patches For Next-Gen Hardware Point To New NPU Integration   Radeon   2026-01-05
AMD RDNA4 With RADV Now Support New Performance Counters For Better Profiling   Radeon   2026-01-05
Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights   Phoronix   2026-01-02
AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025   Phoronix   2025-12-31
The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025   Mesa   2025-12-30
Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025   NVIDIA   2025-12-26
A Recap Of The Top AMD Linux News Of 2025: Strix Halo, AI, Kernel Improvements   AMD   2025-12-24
RADV Adds Support For New Performance Counters To Help Game Developers   Radeon   2025-12-22
AMD Wants Your Logs To Help Optimize PyTorch & ComfyUI For Strix Halo, Radeon GPUs   AMD   2025-12-17
Mesa 26.0 Bringing Support For 64K x 64K Textures With AMD RDNA4 GPUs   Mesa   2025-12-06
AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Released With RHEL 10.1 Support, More Models Working On RDNA4   AMD   2025-11-26
AMD Begins Posting Open-Source Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen GPU IP   Radeon   2025-11-19
RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics   AMD   2025-11-06
Linux 6.18 Kernel Happenings, Python 3.14, NTFSPLUS & Other October Highlights   Phoronix   2025-11-01
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Hitting Retailers Next Week For $1299 USD   AMD   2025-10-23
AMD ROCm 7.0.2 Released With Radeon RX 9060 Officially Supported   Radeon   2025-10-10
AMD "GFX1251" Target Added To LLVM As Latest RDNA 4.5 APU   AMD   2025-09-17
HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs   Radeon   2025-09-04
LLVM 21.1 Released With AMD GFX1250 Target, Improved RISC-V, New C/C++ Features   LLVM   2025-08-26
RADV Vulkan Video Lands Intra-Refresh Encode   Radeon   2025-08-21
AMD "GFX1250" To Double The Number Of User SGPRs   AMD   2025-08-18
AMD Linux Driver Prepares For Radeon RDNA4 "Kicker"   Radeon   2025-08-08
RADV Implements Triangle Pair Compression For AMD RDNA4 GPUs   Radeon   2025-08-08
Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers   Mesa   2025-08-06
Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July   Phoronix   2025-08-01
xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes   Radeon   2025-07-29
AMD RadeonSI Driver Enables OpenGL Sparse Texture Support For RDNA4 GPUs   Radeon   2025-07-24
Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs   Valve   2025-07-23
Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated   Mesa   2025-07-23
AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs   Radeon   2025-07-22
Radeon Vulkan Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Scores A ~40% Improvement For Quake II RTX   Radeon   2025-07-19
LLVM 21.1-rc1 Released For Testing: Better RISC-V Support, AMD GFX1250 & NVIDIA GB10   LLVM   2025-07-17
Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default   Mesa   2025-07-16
Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations   Mesa   2025-07-16
Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV   Radeon   2025-07-15
LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched   LLVM   2025-07-15
Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025   Radeon   2025-07-14
RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs   Radeon   2025-07-14
Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June   Phoronix   2025-07-01
RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support   Radeon   2025-06-23
AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM   Radeon   2025-06-23
Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users   Mesa   2025-06-07
Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware   Phoronix   2025-06-05
Mesa 25.1.2 Released With More Intel Battlemage & Panther Lake IDs Added   Mesa   2025-06-04
Mesa 25.2 Lands RADV VCN5 Video Encode/Decode Support For RDNA4 GPUs   Radeon   2025-06-02
AMD Releases ROCm 6.4.1 With RDNA4 GPU Support   Radeon   2025-05-21
AMD Provides Initial Details On The Radeon RX 9060 XT   Radeon   2025-05-20
AMD Announces The Radeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics Coming In July   Radeon   2025-05-20
Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4   Radeon   2025-05-13
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2   Radeon   2025-05-09
Mesa 25.1 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2025-05-07
Initial AMDGPU User Mode Queues Support Prepped For Linux 6.16   Radeon   2025-05-02
Framework 13 With Strix Point, Cheap RISC-V & Linux Kernel Happenings Topped April   Phoronix   2025-05-01
Mesa 25.1-rc3 & Mesa 25.0.5 Deliver More Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2025-04-30
AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support   Radeon   2025-04-30
OpenBSD 7.7 Released With AMD SEV Guest Bits, Initial Radeon RX 9070 GPU Support   BSD   2025-04-27
Open-Source RADV Driver Begins Working To Improve AMD RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Performance   Radeon   2025-04-17
Ubuntu 25.04 Now Available For Download With GNOME 48 + Linux 6.14, Better Performance   Ubuntu   2025-04-17
Mesa 25.1-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA4 Improvements, Lots Of RADV & Intel ANV Additions   Mesa   2025-04-16
More Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA4" Open-Source Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.1   Mesa   2025-04-16
AMD RDNA4 Paired Context Reg Feature Merged For RADV To Potentially Help Performance   Radeon   2025-04-14
AMD Releases ROCm 6.4 Without Any Official RDNA4 Support   AMD   2025-04-11
RADV Lands Workaround For Buggy HiZ/HiS On AMD RDNA4 GPUs   Radeon   2025-04-08
DXVK 2.6.1 Released With More Bug Fixes & Performance Optimizations   Valve   2025-04-07
Intel Open Image Denoise Adds Support For AMD RDNA4 & NVIDIA Blackwell   Intel   2025-04-05
Linux Kernel Developments, AMD RX 9070 GIMP 3.0 & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2025-04-01
AMD's Latest Wares, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Kernel Changes Excited Linux Users So Far In 2025   Phoronix   2025-03-31
AMD Software Advancements, RDNA4 & Ryzen 9900X3D Series Excited Linux Users In Q1   AMD   2025-03-31
CachyOS Adds Limine Bootloader, Easier Samba Integration & NTSYNC Wine   Operating Systems   2025-03-30
Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations   Mesa   2025-03-30
Mesa 25.0.2 Changes Range From Fixing Soft FP64 For Old AMD GPUs To RX 9070 Fixes   Mesa   2025-03-20
Blender 4.4 Released With Vulkan Improvements & AMD HIP RT No Longer Experimental   Free Software   2025-03-18
Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15   Radeon   2025-03-14
Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler   Radeon   2025-03-14
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 Brings Radeon RX 9070 Series Support   Radeon   2025-03-13
AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)   Radeon   2025-03-09
AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability   AMD   2025-03-07
AMD Readies More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 6.15   Radeon   2025-03-01
There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day   Radeon   2025-02-28
RADV Driver Expands Use Of Performance-Helping DCC Fast Clears On RDNA3 GPUs   Radeon   2025-02-28
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 Released With Strix Halo Support   Radeon   2025-02-28
AMD Driver Lands DCC For Multi-Plane Formats With RDNA4, Tiling For Video Buffers   Radeon   2025-02-26
AMD Preparing New GPU Support For Their Kernel Graphics Driver In Linux 6.15   Radeon   2025-02-23
AMD ROCm 6.3.3 Released With Installer & Documentation Improvements   AMD   2025-02-19
Mesa 25.0 Released With Vulkan 1.4 Driver Support, AMD RDNA4 Ready   Mesa   2025-02-19
RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs   Radeon   2025-02-17
Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer   Radeon   2025-02-07
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 Brings New Performance Tuning & Fixes   Radeon   2025-02-07
Mesa 25.0 Is Trending Well For Release Later This Month   Mesa   2025-02-06
Linux 6.14-rc1 Released With NTSYNC Completed, AMDXDNA Driver & Other Enhancements   Linux Kernel   2025-02-02
Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January   Phoronix   2025-02-01
Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions   Mesa   2025-01-30
Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough"   Radeon   2025-01-29
AMD ROCm 6.3.2 Supports Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0, HIP Improvements & Better Docs   AMD   2025-01-28
AMD Squeezes In More RDNA4 Changes For Linux 6.14 - Enables Cleaner Shader On GFX12   Radeon   2025-01-26
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Seeing More RDNA4 Work In Recent Days   Mesa   2025-01-21
AMD Seeking Feedback Around What Radeon GPUs You Would Like Supported By ROCm   AMD   2025-01-20
AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates   Linux Kernel   2025-01-17
In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators   Radeon   2025-01-17
AMD Preps More GPU Driver Fixes For Linux 6.14, Cleaner Shader For RDNA2 dGPUs   Radeon   2025-01-11
AMD's GPUOpen HIP RT 2.5 Released With Fixes, GFX1200 RDNA4 Support   Radeon   2025-01-07
Lenovo Officially Announces The Legion Go S Handheld With SteamOS   Valve   2025-01-07
Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4   Mesa   2024-12-30
AMD Continued Ramping Up Their Linux & Open-Source Investments In 2024   AMD   2024-12-27
AMD GPU Driver Engineer Marek Olšák Lands Mesa 25.0 Optimizations For Christmas   Mesa   2024-12-24
Linux 6.13 Is A Great Holiday Gift For AMD Systems With Many New Features   AMD   2024-12-19
Last Minute AMD GFX12 Changes For RadeonSI Driver Enable ACO For RDNA4   Radeon   2024-12-16
Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November   Phoronix   2024-12-01
AMD GFX9.4.4 CDNA Firmware Published, More GFX950 Changes Point To Being MI350   AMD   2024-11-26
Linux 6.12 Released With Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, More AMD RDNA4 & More   Linux Kernel   2024-11-17
Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5   Linux Kernel   2024-11-15
AMDGPU Changes Readied For Linux 6.13: Runtime Repartitioning, Many Fixes   Radeon   2024-10-25
AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support   Radeon   2024-09-23
Linux 6.12 Lands QR Code For DRM Panic Messages, Intel LNL & BMG Graphics Enabled   Linux Kernel   2024-09-19
LLVM 19.1 Released With C++17 Support "Complete", More C & C++ Features   LLVM   2024-09-17
Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More   Linux Kernel   2024-09-15
AMD Enables Per-Queue Resets For Newer GPUs & Other Linux 6.12 AMDGPU Changes   Radeon   2024-09-07
AMD Graphics Driver Prepares For Per-Queue Resets & Process Isolation In Linux 6.12   Radeon   2024-08-27
Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache   Mesa   2024-08-14
RadeonSI Driver Sees GPU Hang Fixes - RDNA4 Fixes, Optimally Programming "OREO MODE"   Radeon   2024-08-06
The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines   Radeon   2024-08-04
Linux 6.11-rc1 Released With Initial Intel Battlemage Support, AMD RDNA4 Primed   Linux Kernel   2024-07-28
AMD Working On More Precise GPU Reset Capabilities For Their Linux Driver   Radeon   2024-07-25
Intel Xe2/Battlemage & AMD RDNA4 Lead The Graphics Driver Changes In Linux 6.11   Hardware   2024-07-23
LLVM Clang 19 Branched, LLVM 20 Enters Development- No AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Merged Yet   LLVM   2024-07-23
Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2024-07-19
AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Linux Driver Support Matures To Being Enabled By Default   Radeon   2024-07-18
Linux 6.11 Features To Include A Lot For Intel & AMD Systems, Extensible Scheduler   Linux Kernel   2024-07-14