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The Valve-funded shader compiler 'ACO' is being queued up for inclusion in Mesa directly (updated: merged)

By Liam Dawe,
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Back in early July, Valve announced their work on a new AMD GPU shader compiler for Mesa named ACO and now they're trying to get it pulled into Mesa directly. UPDATED.
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Valve's new "ACO" Mesa shader compiler for AMD GPUs now has vertex shader support

By Liam Dawe,
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For our third bit of Valve news today, they also recently announced that their Mesa shader compiler "ACO" had a bit of an upgrade recently as well.
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Valve are asking for help testing "ACO", a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD graphics

By Liam Dawe,
67
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned on Twitter, about a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD graphics named "ACO" and they're calling for testers.
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Mesa 19.0 is officially out, lots of improvements for Linux open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
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Today is the day, for those of you using open source graphics drivers (AMD/Intel and some older NVIDIA GPUs), Mesa 19.0 is now officially out.
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Mesa 18.3.0 for those of you using the open source drivers

By Liam Dawe,
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For those of you using Intel and AMD (and some older NVIDIA cards) Mesa 18.3.0 was officially released today.
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Zink, a new driver project for OpenGL on Vulkan from Collabora

By Liam Dawe,
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Here's one I wasn't aware of, developer Erik “kusma” Faye-Lund from Collabora has been working on Zink. It's a new OpenGL implementation that works on top of Vulkan.
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Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further

By Liam Dawe,
16
Released yesterday, both Mesa 18.1.8 as a bug-fix release and Mesa 18.2.0 as the latest full release of the open source graphics drivers are now out.
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Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile for radeonsi

By Liam Dawe,
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Good news for those of you using an AMD GPU, as Mesa with radeonsi now has support for compatibility profiles up to OpenGL 4.4.
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Mesa 18.1 is out with the shader cache on for Intel

By Liam Dawe,
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Open source drivers on Linux have advanced rather quickly and now we have another fresh release out with Mesa 18.1 which was released yesterday.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider tested on AMD RX 580

By Samsai,
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To go along with Liam’s benchmarks of the game on his Nvidia GPU, I decided to also run some tests on my RX 580 to give you a picture of the AMD performance of the Rise of the Tomb Raider port. So, let’s go!
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Some reflections on radv, the first open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs

By BTRE,
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With recent commits that fix bugs and allow newer Vega cards to pass tests for official conformance, development for radv continues apace. It’s a good time to look back and talk about just how far the driver has come in such a short time.
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Mesa 17.3.0 released to further advance open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
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Mesa 17.3.0 is the latest version of the open source graphics drivers and it has officially released today.
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Feral Interactive continues to contribute to Mesa as one of its developers gets commit privileges

By BTRE,
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Alex Smith of Feral has been granted the right to push code into Mesa, a continuing sign of the commitment of Feral to Mesa and Vulkan.
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The RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs now has a shader cache in Mesa, plus more Mesa news

By Liam Dawe,
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Following on from the OpenGL shader cache, RADV the open source Vulkan driver for AMD cards can also now make use of a shader cache.
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Mesa now has more games in the whitelist for threaded GL

By Liam Dawe,
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The threaded GL dispatch code to speed up some Linux games currently uses a Whitelist and now more games have been added.
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Mesa 17.2 officially released

By Liam Dawe,
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The open source graphics drivers, Mesa, have been updated to 17.2 which is a major new release bringing in many changes.
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Dawn of War III is set to get another small performance improvement with RadeonSI

By Liam Dawe,
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Arriving in the public Mesa-git mailing list just under an hour ago, another small improvement for RadeonSI with Dawn of War III when using OpenGL.
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Mesa has a few more games in the threaded OpenGL whitelist as of today

By Liam Dawe,
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Landing in the public Mesa-git mailing list within the last few minutes, more games have been added to the whitelist to make use of threaded OpenGL for better performance.
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OpenGL multithreading in Mesa is ready for wider testing

By Liam Dawe,
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A Mesa developer wrote into the public Mesa-dev mailing list to ask for testers of OpenGL multithreading in Mesa so that they can grow the whitelist of games that will use it.
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More optimizations on the way for Dawn of War III in Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
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A Mesa developer has put out a set of 42 patches to help improve Dawn of War III performance on Linux using Mesa. It focuses on the use of KHR_no_error to save some more CPU time.
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