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Mesa 13.0.3 released with numerous bugfixes
The open source OpenGL implementation Mesa has a new release 13.0.3 which, as the minor version bump indicates, brings a number of bug fixes to RadeonSI and Intel.
Category: AMD
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is about to get ~70% better performance with RadeonSI
Marek sent in a patch for RadeonSI that will look to increase performance of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by around 70%.
AMD 'Ryzen' is the official name of the Zen processors, more details released today
AMD have released more information about Zen, but the official name is now AMD 'Ryzen' (pronounced as Rye-zen). Their livestream event just finished, so here's a quick overview for you.
AMDGPU-PRO 16.50 actually released, with FreeSync and wider GPU support
As expected (from the leak), AMD has pushed out AMDGPU-PRO 16.50 for Linux which includes FreeSync support along with support for a wider set of cards.
AMD will be showing off their Zen CPU Architecture and letting people play with it on December 13th
On December 13th AMD have said they will be showing off more of their new CPU architecture named Zen.
AMD working on an updated driver that will support FreeSync on Linux and wider GPU support
AMD have announced that they are working on a big driver update. The Linux driver will support FreeSync and have wider support for their different GPUs.
Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR
Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.
Another performance improvement is on the way for AMD users on the radeonsi driver
The AMD developer Marek Olšák sent over a patch to Mesa for the AMD radeonsi driver that he found by luck, and it improves DiRT: Showdown on Ultra settings by 15%. It's likely of course that this can help other games too.
AMD Zen looks like it will release at CES in January 2017
In January 2017 it looks like AMD will finally release their brand new clean-sheet (it's a new design) Zen CPU architecture, and damn it sounds exciting.
The Talos Principle now renders correctly in 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver
Good news for Vulkan and AMD GPU fans, as David Airlie has put up a new blog post letting us know that The Talos Principle now renders correctly in this new open source AMD Vulkan driver.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD can now run Dota 2
A pretty good milestone has been achieved with the open source Vulkan driver for AMD that Dave Airlie has been working on with Bas Nieuwenhuizen. It can now run Dota 2.
Arch users have a kernel available that will allow AMDGPU and the PRO driver on older cards
GOL user nauticalnexus has put up a Linux Kernel for Arch users that will allow you to use AMDGPU and AMDGPU PRO on older AMD cards.
A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress
Marek Olšák has recently sent word to the AMD mailing list that they have found a reason for some games performing poorly using Mesa. Another developer noted that a patch is already in progress.
Mesa patches greatly improve Bioshock Infinite performance for the RadeonSI AMD driver
For those of you using the RadeonSI driver for AMD graphics cards, you may be interested to know that a developer named Marek has sent in patches to significantly improve performance for Bioshock Infinite.
Dave Airlie has been working on an AMD Vulkan driver
Dave Airlie has been working on an open source AMD Vulkan driver and he's ready to show it off a little bit.
The AMD RX 480 seems to have power issues you may want to be aware of
The brand new AMD RX 480 seems to have an issue of drawing too much power through the pci-e port, so you may want to hold off on buying one of the first lot for now.
Check out this AMD video talking about Vulkan (and DirectX12)
AMD have released a nice video talking about Vulkan (and DirectX 12), it's also nice to hear Linux & SteamOS mentioned.
AMD RX 480 released, AMD will possibly open up Radeon Software
The next generation of AMD GPU's have launched, and it begins with the AMD RX 480. Benchmarks are now out there along with plenty of info.
AMD will be hosting a reddit 'ask me anything' and giving away 14 RX 480 graphics cards
AMD are doing something pretty amazing, they will be doing a reddit AMA with the chance of anyone who comments to win one of fourteen of their brand new RX 480 graphics cards.
SteamOS 2.80 beta released, brings the AMD GPU PRO driver for Vulkan and VDPAU support
Probably one of the more interesting releases of SteamOS recently. SteamOS 2.80 is now in beta which brings with it some fun changes for AMD GPU users.
- Let's Build a Dungeon sounds like such a fun idea as it hits 140,000 Steam wishlists
- Pre-Fortress 2 is coming to Steam to bridge the gap between Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2
- Valve announce language-specific user review scores for Steam games
- Valheim: Call To Arms major update announced with new combat mechanics and lots of new items
- Leaks again hint at Valve doing a proper Steam Machine Console
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