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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 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.

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.

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.

Mesa 23.2.1 drivers out now

By Liam Dawe,
After a longer period of waiting than usual, the Mesa 23.2.1 driver release is out now as the first in the Mesa 23.2 series.

Mesa 23.2 aims for release this week, with a point release next week

By Liam Dawe,
It's been quite a while overdue but Mesa 23.2 is getting set to finally released, with a fourth Release Candidate now available for testing.

Mesa getting Vulkan performance upgrades for submission merging

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz, who is one of many under contract by Valve, has released another blog post highlighting another fun optimization from their ongoing Mesa driver work.

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.

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.

Mesa graphics drivers 23.1.0 out now with RADV GPL enabled

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh release of Mesa is now available, the set of open source graphics drivers for Linux and Steam Deck with v23.1.0 out now.

Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game (update: Jedi Survivor)

By Liam Dawe,
Here's something interesting for you. Valve developers seem to be improving the Mesa graphics drivers right now towards a secret game. Update: It was for Jedi Survivor.

AMD RADV driver will soon stop eating RAM with some games

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has continued blogging about Linux graphics driver improvements, with a fix from developer Samuel Pitoiset landing to stop the AMD RADV (Vulkan) driver eating up RAM.

Steam Deck OS 3.4.6 Beta adds DOOM Eternal Ray Tracing, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has updated the Steam Deck Preview update branch to bring with it Steam Deck OS 3.4.6 Beta and it's quite an exciting one.

Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 23.0.0 has been released today upgrading open source graphics drivers for Linux. As usual you should wait for the first point release for stability.

Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan gets a 10x performance boost for DOOM 2016

By Liam Dawe,
A really small change to the Zink driver, that gives OpenGL support on top of Vulkan, has given an ~10x speed boost for DOOM (2016).

NVK is a new open source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
Jason Ekstrand of Collabora just announced NVK, a brand new open source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs.

NVIDIA Linux driver 515.76 is out, as is Mesa 22.2 for AMD / Intel

By Liam Dawe,
Two new driver releases are now available for desktop Linux users with NVIDIA 515.76 and Mesa 22.2 for AMD / Intel.

Intel's Linux Vulkan Driver readying up a 60%+ speed boost "in draw throughput"

By Liam Dawe,
In another nice win for open source graphics, the Vulkan Driver for Intel on Linux is looking set to get a nice speed boost.
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