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AMDGPU driver for Linux 6.7 enforces lower power limits from vBIOS

By nwildner,
Starting with Linux kernel 6.7, users of the AMDGPU driver are not be able to set power limits below the recommended values advised by the AMD Engineering team on the hardware itself. The new low-power limits are intentionally enforced and set based on each card vBIOS specification.

The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

By Liam Dawe,
If you were hoping at some point to see HDMI 2.1+ on Linux with AMD + Mesa, you're out of luck right now as it's simply not going to be happening.

Slimbook reveal the AMD powered Excalibur laptop and KDE Plasma 6 Slimbook

By Liam Dawe,
For all of you who keep asking for more AMD powered laptops, Slimbook have delivered with the brand new Excalibur which also has a KDE Slimbook counterpart.

GPU Reshape is a fancy new open source tool for developers

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh announcement for developers today is GPU Reshape, a free and open source tool that could be really useful for game developers working with Vulkan and DirectX 12 to deal with potentially undefined behaviour.

AMD announces Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs

By Liam Dawe,
Amongst a whole lot of technobabble about AI AI and more AI, AMD today announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs.

Ray-Tracing performance uplift coming to the AMD RADV Linux graphics driver

By Liam Dawe,
The open source AMD RADV Vulkan driver is set to get some nice looking performance improvements for Ray-Tracing, which should release along with Mesa 24.0.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.

Check out the XDC 2023 talks on HDR + Color Management for Steam Deck / Linux desktop

By Liam Dawe,
The X.Org Developer's Conference - XDC 2023 has been going on for the last few days, and there's some good talks happening including a nice overview across two talks going over the state of HDR and Color Management.

AMD FSR 3 arrived today in two games - source code later

By Liam Dawe,
AMD today announced that FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) is now available in two games: Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum but the source code isn't up yet.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart gets FSR 2.2 and Ray Tracing for AMD GPUs on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Insomniac Games and Nixxes Software showing how good PC support is done with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, with another free upgrade out now. It's good news for Steam Deck and desktop Linux players too.

Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT revealed, plus more details on FSR 3

By Liam Dawe,
AMD just announced the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT Graphics Cards, and they're giving out more details on FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3).

Linux kernel gets an AMD Zenbleed fix for the Steam Deck APU

By Liam Dawe,
One security issue I somehow missed back in July was Zenbleed, an issue with AMD CPUs that's getting patched up in the Linux kernel and now the Steam Deck is getting a kernel fix for it too.

AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
With some work currently pending to be pulled into Mesa, the open source AMD RADV driver could be about to get much faster with Ray Tracing which is exciting to see.

Downfall is a new 'severe' flaw in Intel CPUs, while AMD deal with INCEPTION

By Liam Dawe,
Uh oh! Another rather serious security flaw has been found in Intel CPUs named Downfall, so here's a bit of info on it. Additionally, AMD are also dealing with INCEPTION.

The modular Framework Laptop 16 opens up for pre-orders

By Liam Dawe,
Framework have now put up the modular and customizable Framework Laptop 16 for pre-order featuring the latest AMD Ryzen CPUs and AMD Radeon GPUs.

AMD opens up the FidelityFX SDK and it's now on GitHub

By Liam Dawe,
Helping game developers integrate various AMD FidelityFX technologies into their games, AMD yesterday open sourced the FidelityFX SDK.

AMD reveals initial open source openSIL code to replace AGESA Firmware

By Liam Dawe,
AMD is moving even further into open source, with their plans to have openSIL replace AGESA for their processors and they've now put up the initial open source code on GitHub.

AMD GPUs to get Ray Tracing turned on for Mesa 23.2

By Liam Dawe,
The RADV driver in Mesa for AMD GPUs on Linux and Steam Deck is set to get Ray Tracing turned on by default for the upcoming Mesa 23.2 release.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 announced for $269 with 8GB VRAM

By Liam Dawe,
Even with all the talk about 8GB VRAM simply not being enough now for all the new games coming out, we're still seeing multiple launches with it. Now with the AMD Radeon RX 7600 priced at $269.

HDR and Colour Management for AMD / Steam Deck and KDE Plasma coming along

By Liam Dawe,
With all the work going on right now to get Linux to properly support HDR, another patch set has landed to hopefully get some of it hooked up.
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