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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.

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time

By Liam Dawe,
The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.

NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has revealed new GPU driver security issues in their latest bulletin, so here's what you need to know if you're using an NVIDIA GPU on Linux.

NVIDIA 550.54.14 driver released as stable

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA today launched the 550.54.14 Linux driver as stable coming with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements, so here's all that's changed.

NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs

By nwildner,
A recent merge request on the Mesa Git repository added the initial support for allowing drivers to chose Zink as the translation layer for handling OpenGL.

Apple M1 gets OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2 support on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig announced in a blog post that support for the Apple M1 has been improved, with the latest updates bringing full conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1.

Mesa 24.0 out now with AMD RADV ray-tracing improvements, more NVIDIA NVK improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Eric Engestrom announced the latest open source graphics drivers release with Mesa 24.0 bringing with it a great many improvements and new drivers.

NVIDIA 550.40.07 Beta driver released with fixes for VRR and Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has today launched the 550.40.07 Beta driver for Linux which includes numerous important fixes, so you might want to jump in and give this one a thorough gaming test.

NVIDIA 535.154.05 for Linux brings a few bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA released driver version 535.154.05 for Linux bringing with it a few useful sounding bug fixes, so here's what's new for the first NVIDIA update of 2024. NOTE: ARTICLE UPDATED.

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.

Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.

Mesa 23.3 is out now with the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Eric Engestrom announced yesterday the fresh release of the Mesa 23.3 open source graphics drivers.

NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux driver released with Source 2 game fix

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has today released the 545.29.06 Linux stable driver. A small one with only a few useful sounding fixes.

Intel Vulkan drivers on Linux should run more games with Mesa 24.0

By Liam Dawe,
While work is ongoing to provide brand new Intel Xe Vulkan drivers on Linux with their newer driver, work is still happening to improve the current driver.

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK hits Vulkan 1.0 conformance

By Liam Dawe,
A big step for the in-development open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK, as Collabora have announced how it's hit Vulkan 1.0 conformance.

Polychromatic app for managing Razer devices v0.8.3 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Need help managing various Razer devices on Linux? Polychromatic v0.8.3 is out now with improved hardware support powered by OpenRazer.

OpenRazer 3.7 brings even more Razer device support to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRazer 3.7.0 is out now bringing with it plenty of code clean-up and lots of new device support to Linux for Razer hardware fans this is an essential.

NVIDIA driver 545.29.02 out for Linux plus other releases due to security issues

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA today launched four new stable Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues.

NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe,
After being a little quiet for a while, NVIDIA released Beta driver 545.23.06 which includes a bunch of new features and a few bug fixes too.
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