Vulkan is a new graphics API in development by the Khronos Group to succeed OpenGL. Vulkan will be supported by all major graphics vendors along with the SPIR-V intermediate representation.

Vulkan Articles & Reviews

Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2026-05-28
Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan   Graphics Cards   2026-04-08
AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software   Operating Systems   2026-04-02
Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2026-03-26
NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2026-03-09
Intel Rendering Toolkit & OpenVINO AI GPU Performance On Intel Panther Lake's Xe3 B390   Graphics Cards   2026-03-03
Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime   Graphics Cards   2026-02-16
Dell Pro Max GB10 vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Framework Desktop For Llama.cpp, OpenCL & Vulkan Compute   Computers   2026-01-07
Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV AMD Radeon Vulkan Drivers   Display Drivers   2025-12-25
Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUs   Display Drivers   2025-12-22
The Significant Performance Gains For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing Performance In 2025   Display Drivers   2025-12-16
Intel Arc B580 vs. AMD Radeon RX 9000 vs. NVIDIA RTX 50 Series For Llama.cpp Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2025-12-08
Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025   Display Drivers   2025-12-03
Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2025-11-28
AMD ROCm 7.1 vs. RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp With The Radeon AI PRO R9700   Display Drivers   2025-11-18
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
ROCm GPU Compute Performance With AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo"   Graphics Cards   2025-05-27
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
RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024   Display Drivers   2024-07-17
AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux With Breaking Limit   Display Drivers   2024-07-09
Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2023-08-11
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
Intel Arc Graphics Show Good Potential For Linux Workstation OpenGL Performance   Graphics Cards   2023-03-24
The Current Intel Arc Graphics Linux Gaming Performance On Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.1-dev   Linux Gaming   2023-03-20
Radeon Gaming/Graphics Performance: Windows 11 vs. Linux GPU Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2022-12-29
Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Performance Ahead Of Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0   Display Drivers   2022-11-30
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Benchmarks Are Very Competitive To Radeon OpenGL Driver   Display Drivers   2022-08-22
Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Continues Outperforming AMDVLK For RDNA2 Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2022-06-28
Total War: WARHAMMER III Linux Performance Across 24 NVIDIA / AMD GPUs   Linux Gaming   2022-06-21
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
Vulkan 1.3 Released With Dynamic Rendering In Core, New Roadmap Guidance For Modern GPUs   Display Drivers   2022-01-25
HITMAN 3 Runs Well On Linux With Steam Play - Open-Source Radeon Performance Especially Good   Linux Gaming   2022-01-24
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
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive   Linux Gaming   2021-12-15
Zink Is Ending 2021 In Fantastic Shape For OpenGL Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-11-30
Intel Tiger Lake Performance Looking Even Better With Ubuntu 21.10   Operating Systems   2021-10-04
Zink Mesa 21.3-dev Benchmarks - Increasingly Capable Of Running OpenGL Games Atop Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-08-23
AMD RDNA2 Vulkan: RADV vs. RADV+NGGC vs. AMDVLK vs. PRO Driver Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2021-08-17
GeForce RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Linux   Display Drivers   2021-08-13
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
Left 4 Dead 2 Vulkan Performance With Radeon Graphics On Linux   Linux Gaming   2021-06-23
GravityMark OpenGL/Vulkan Performance For NVIDIA RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series   Display Drivers   2021-06-18
NVIDIA Resizable BAR Performance - A Big Boost For Some Linux Games   Display Drivers   2021-06-17
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - Windows vs. Linux GPU Compute Performance   Display Drivers   2021-05-10
Initial Radeon vs. GeForce Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux   Display Drivers   2021-04-20
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series OpenCL / CUDA / OptiX Compute + Rendering Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2021-04-15
Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2021-04-12
Open-Source Radeon Driver Performance Against NVIDIA Linux Gaming For March 2021   Display Drivers   2021-03-11
Updated Portal 2 Vulkan Rendering Code Yielding Great Radeon Results   Linux Gaming   2021-03-02
OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance For Portal 2 With Radeon Linux Graphics   Linux Gaming   2021-02-20
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
A Preliminary Look At Radeon RX 6800 XT Windows Performance vs. Open-Source Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2020-12-10
Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan   Graphics Cards   2020-10-23
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Vulkan Neural Network Performance With NCNN   Display Drivers   2020-09-25
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
RADV+ACO Outperforming AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Drivers For X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator   Display Drivers   2020-04-15
X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator With Vulkan Performing Very Well On Linux - NVIDIA/AMD OpenGL vs. Vulkan Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2020-04-08
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension   Display Drivers   2020-03-17
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
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
Radeon RX 5600 XT With New vBIOS Offering Better Linux Performance Following Fix   Graphics Cards   2020-01-24
Vulkan 1.2 Arrives With An Eye On Greater Performance, Better Compatibility With Other 3D APIs On Top   Display Drivers   2020-01-15
How The Radeon RX 5700 XT Navi Linux Performance Has Evolved Since Launch   Display Drivers   2019-12-30
The Performance Advancements Of The Radeon Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Over 2019   Display Drivers   2019-12-22
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
RADV's ACO Back-End Is Helping Radeon Navi Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2019-11-22
23-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Shadow of the Tomb Raider On Linux   Linux Gaming   2019-11-18
Zink Benchmarks - Mesa OpenGL Running Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2019-11-17
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux Performance On The Dell Ice Lake Laptop   Operating Systems   2019-11-10
Intel Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake Linux Performance Benchmarks   Processors   2019-10-22
Windows 10 vs. Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Performance With Intel Icelake Iris Plus Graphics   Display Drivers   2019-10-15
Radeon RADV "ACO" Performance On Mesa 19.3 Looking Good   Display Drivers   2019-10-05
NVIDIA RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER Linux Gaming Performance - 26 GPUs Benchmarked   Graphics Cards   2019-09-26
Intel Core i9 9900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-08-29
Benchmarking Valve's RADV+ACO Yields Fastest Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2019-07-08
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
GeForce GTX 650 vs. GTX 1650 Performance For Linux Gaming, Performance-Per-Watt   Graphics Cards   2019-05-15
Radeon RX 560/570/580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060/1650/1660 Linux Gaming Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-05-06
LG's 4K FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync Display For Just $219 USD   Computers   2019-05-01
AMDVLK vs. RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance For Linux Gaming On Ubuntu 19.04   Display Drivers   2019-04-11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Linux Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2019-03-20
AMDGPU vs. Radeon Kernel Driver Performance On Linux 5.0 For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Computers   2019-03-07
A Final Look At The OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance For Talos Principle   Linux Gaming   2019-02-26
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Linux Gaming Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2019-02-25
AMD Radeon VII Linux Benchmarks - Powerful Open-Source Graphics For Compute & Gaming   Graphics Cards   2019-02-07
Radeon ROCm 2.0 OpenCL Benchmarks With Linux 5.0 On Ubuntu 18.10 vs. NVIDIA's Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2019-01-30
The AMD Radeon RX Vega Launch Performance Compared To 2019 Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2019-01-24
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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760/960/1060 / RTX 2060 Linux Gaming & Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-01-15
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Linux Performance From Gaming To TensorFlow & Compute   Graphics Cards   2019-01-08
NVIDIA's Linux Driver Saw Some Nice Performance Gains In 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-29
The GPU Compute Performance From The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To TITAN RTX   Graphics Cards   2018-12-25
Initial Linux Benchmarks Of The NVIDIA TITAN RTX Graphics Card For Compute & Gaming   Graphics Cards   2018-12-22
RadeonSI Gallium3D Made Some More OpenGL Performance Gains This Year   Display Drivers   2018-12-21
The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-20
AMD Radeon RX 590 Linux Benchmarks, 18-Way NVIDIA/AMD Gaming Comparison   Graphics Cards   2018-12-07
Radeon Vulkan Driver Benchmarks: AMDVLK 2018.4.2 vs. AMDGPU-PRO 18.40 vs. Mesa 18.2/19.0   Display Drivers   2018-11-25
AMDGPU+RADV Linux Gaming On GCN 1.0/1.1, 25-Way Warhammer II GPU Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2018-11-24
NVIDIA & AMD Linux Gaming Performance For Total War: Warhammer II At 1080p / 1440p / 4K   Linux Gaming   2018-11-22
20-Way AMD / NVIDIA Linux Gaming Benchmarks For The 2018 Holidays   Linux Gaming   2018-11-18
16-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Valve's Steam Play For Windows Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-11-06
RADV vs. AMDVLK vs. Radeon Software Vulkan Driver Performance - October 2018 Linux Gaming   Display Drivers   2018-10-04
12-Way Intel / AMD Integrated Graphics Linux Tests On Ubuntu 18.10   Display Drivers   2018-09-28
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To RTX 2080 Ti Graphics/Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2018-09-20
Initial NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Linux Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2018-09-19
September 2018 Drivers: The Current Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt From NVIDIA Kepler To Pascal vs. AMD   Display Drivers   2018-09-11
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
A Fresh Look At The NVIDIA vs. Radeon Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt For August 2018   Linux Gaming   2018-08-20
SIGGRAPH 2018: OpenCL-Next Taking Shape, Vulkan Continues Evolving   Software   2018-08-13
20-Way NVIDIA/AMD Vulkan Linux Gaming Performance Comparison   Linux Gaming   2018-07-26
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Linux Games   Linux Gaming   2018-07-14
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux With OpenGL/Vulkan On GTX 1060/1080 Ti & RX 580/Vega 64   Display Drivers   2018-06-28
Radeon Software 18.20 vs. Mesa 18.2 RadeonSI/RADV Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-06-26
Core i7 8700K vs. Ryzen 7 2700X For Vulkan Gaming With Thrones of Britannia   Linux Gaming   2018-06-11
25-Way NVIDIA/AMD Linux Graphics Comparison For Vulkan-Powered Thrones Of Britannia   Linux Gaming   2018-06-10
NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux GPU Performance For THRONES OF BRITANNIA   Linux Gaming   2018-06-07
macOS 10.13 vs. Windows 10 vs. Clear/Fedora/openSUSE/Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2018-06-06
Dota 2 Vulkan Performance Across MacOS, Windows 10 & Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-06-05
Clear Linux Now Offers Radeon Mesa Graphics Support, Yields Speed Advantage In Some Tests   Operating Systems   2018-06-02
Ryzen 7 2700 / Ryzen 7 2700X / Core i7 8700K Linux Gaming Performance With RX Vega 64, GTX 1080 Ti   Linux Gaming   2018-05-21
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
Core i7 8700K vs. Ryzen 7 2700X With Rise of The Tomb Raider On Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-04-26
20-Way NVIDIA GeForce / AMD Radeon GPU Comparison For Rise of The Tomb Raider On Vulkan/Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-04-19
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

Vulkan Linux & Open-Source News

Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes   Wayland   2026-06-16
Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI   Mozilla   2026-06-15
Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream   WINE   2026-06-13
Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses   Qt   2026-06-12
Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics   Radeon   2026-06-11
AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support   AMD   2026-06-10
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
Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding   Mozilla   2026-06-07
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode   Mesa   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
Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions   Vulkan   2026-06-05
Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT   Radeon   2026-06-04
Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support   Linux Gaming   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
Shotcut 26.6 Beta Brings Many Fixes, OpenFX & VST2 Plugin Support   Multimedia   2026-06-02
Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark   WINE   2026-05-31
Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility   WINE   2026-05-29
Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support   Radeon   2026-05-29
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes   KDE   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
Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland   Wayland   2026-05-26
NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API   NVIDIA   2026-05-26
Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features   Wayland   2026-05-25
Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols   Wayland   2026-05-25
RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma   Radeon   2026-05-25
VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan   WINE   2026-05-21
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video   Multimedia   2026-05-20
Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux   Linux Gaming   2026-05-17
FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration   Multimedia   2026-05-17
Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK_NV_cooperative_matrix_decode_vector   Vulkan   2026-05-15
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules   KDE   2026-05-14
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
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming   NVIDIA   2026-05-12
Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement   Vulkan   2026-05-11
AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds   Radeon   2026-05-07
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering   KDE   2026-05-07
D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements   Vulkan   2026-05-06
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
Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute   Vulkan   2026-05-06
VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan   Vulkan   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
Many Exciting Google Summer of Code 2026 Projects & A Lot Of AI   Google   2026-05-03
NVIDIA Ships Fixes For Descriptor Heaps, More Vulkan Performance Optimizations   NVIDIA   2026-05-02
KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Fixes Some NVIDIA Performance Issues, More Features Land For Plasma 6.7   KDE   2026-05-02
Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions   Vulkan   2026-05-01
Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600   Mesa   2026-05-01
Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings   Phoronix   2026-05-01
Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text   Multimedia   2026-04-30
OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning   Programming   2026-04-29
Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release   Wayland   2026-04-29
Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards   Free Software   2026-04-28
Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton   Linux Gaming   2026-04-28
RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone   Radeon   2026-04-27
D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API   Linux Gaming   2026-04-27
RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer   Radeon   2026-04-21
Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11   Linux Gaming   2026-04-20
Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux   Radeon   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
Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support   Linux Gaming   2026-04-14
Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play   Radeon   2026-04-14
GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming   NVIDIA   2026-04-13
Many Wonderful Improvements Expected For Linux 7.1, Especially For AMD & Intel   Linux Kernel   2026-04-12
D7VK 1.7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3D On Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2026-04-11
Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support   Wayland   2026-04-11
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
Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension   Vulkan   2026-04-10
Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware   Linux Gaming   2026-04-09
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated 360 Degree Video Conversion   Multimedia   2026-04-09
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
AMD & Valve Deliver Better Kaveri / Kabini APU Experience With Upcoming Linux 7.1   AMD   2026-04-05
KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7   KDE   2026-04-04
AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs   Radeon   2026-04-03
Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1   Linux Kernel   2026-04-03
Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation   Vulkan   2026-04-03
Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default   WINE   2026-04-02
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
KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing   KDE   2026-03-28
Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1   Intel   2026-03-27
wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management   Wayland   2026-03-26
KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support   KDE   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
NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build   NVIDIA   2026-03-24
Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes   Free Software   2026-03-24
D7VK 1.6 Overhauls Interaction With DXVK's D3D9 Backend   Linux Gaming   2026-03-22
Wine-Staging 11.5 Released With A Few New Patches   WINE   2026-03-22
KDE Plasma 6.7's KWin Lands Support For 3D LUTs To Help With Modern GPUs   KDE   2026-03-21
Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions   Vulkan   2026-03-20
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
Blender 5.1 Released With Raycast Nodes, AMD GPU Ray-Tracing By Default   Free Software   2026-03-17
FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More Vulkan Acceleration   Multimedia   2026-03-16
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
NVIDIA 595.44.03 Linux Driver Released With VK_KHR_device_address_commands   NVIDIA   2026-03-13
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
AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux For Running LLMs   AMD   2026-03-11
D7VK 1.5 Released With Direct3D 3 Now Implemented Over Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2026-03-11
Valve/RADV Developers Look At More Per-Game Tuning/Optimizations For Mesa Drivers   Mesa   2026-03-10
NVIDIA Releases New R595-Derived Vulkan Developer Beta For Linux With New Features   NVIDIA   2026-03-09
FFmpeg 8.1 Preparing For Release With Vulkan Improvements, JPEG-XS & More   Multimedia   2026-03-08
Experimental Intel Nova Lake P Device Bits Merged For Mesa 26.1   Intel   2026-03-08
Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension   Vulkan   2026-03-06
GNOME 50 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2026-03-05
NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2   NVIDIA   2026-03-05
Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS   Operating Systems   2026-03-05
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
Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February   Phoronix   2026-03-01
Verisilicon DC8200 & Coreboot Framebuffer Drivers Sent To DRM-Next For Linux 7.1   Linux Kernel   2026-02-28
Microsoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability   Microsoft   2026-02-26
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
GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support   Multimedia   2026-02-26
Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU   Mesa   2026-02-25
Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Support For Running Games Inside Valve's Latest Steam Runtime   Linux Gaming   2026-02-24
D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux   Linux Gaming   2026-02-24
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
FFmpeg Lands Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212 Decoding Support   Multimedia   2026-02-23
Yet Another Fix Coming For Older AMD GPUs On Linux - Thanks To Valve Developer   Radeon   2026-02-22
Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected   Mesa   2026-02-20
Vulkan 1.4.344 Released With New Extension From Valve   Vulkan   2026-02-19
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits   Intel   2026-02-19
Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols   Wayland   2026-02-19
wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer   Wayland   2026-02-15
Mesa's KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity   Mesa   2026-02-15
Godot 4.7 Making Progress On Vulkan Ray-Tracing   Linux Gaming   2026-02-13
AMD Video Decode Now Unified Between RadeonSI & RADV Vulkan Video   Mesa   2026-02-12
Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2026-02-11
D7VK 1.3 Brings Support For Direct3D 5 On Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2026-02-08