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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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The Mesa OpenGL threaded dispatch code seems to now use a whitelist, improving some games performance

By Liam Dawe,
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It seems the OpenGL threaded dispatch code to speed up some games in Mesa now uses a whitelist, with a few games now able to make use of it.
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The Witcher 2 & Rocket League have fixes ready in Mesa-git

By Liam Dawe,
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The Witcher 2 & Rocket League now have some fixes available in Mesa-git ready for Mesa 17.2 that should give you a better experience.
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Trying the experimental GCN 1.0 support in AMDGPU

By Samsai,
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Inspired by the recent release of Dawn of War 3, I decided to try out the experimental GCN 1.0 support in the new AMDGPU kernel driver and share my experiences.
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Dawn of War III should now work on Mesa-git with OpenGL as Bindless Texture support is in

By Liam Dawe,
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A large patchset from Mesa developer Samuel Pitoiset landed in Mesa-git early today to hook up Bindless Texture support for AMD radeonsi.
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Mesa has a big patch set in the Mesa-dev list to improve Dawn of War III performance, also Mesa 17.1.2 released

By Liam Dawe,
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With the big Dawn of War III release getting closer, one Mesa developer has put some serious effort into getting Mesa ready to game on.
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Mesa 17.1.1 officially released

By Liam Dawe,
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The Mesa team has officially released Mesa 17.1.1 which is a bug fix release to provide better stability in the open source graphics drivers.
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SteamOS updated, Valve drops AMDGPU-PRO for Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
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Valve haven't been sitting on their hands, as they have pushed out a fresh update for SteamOS that's currently in Beta. It's been a while and it's a good one.
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RadeonSI has a large patch set in Mesa-dev for ARB_bindless_texture, allows Dawn of War III to work on Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
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Mesa developer Samuel Pitoiset sent in a set of 65 patches to the Mesa-dev list to enable ARB_bindless_texture for RadeonSI (AMD), this will allow Dawn of War III to work on Mesa.
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The Mesa fixes needed for Dying Light and Dead Island Definitive Edition are now in Mesa-git

By Liam Dawe,
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Dying Light and Dead Island Definitive Edition were previously broken on Mesa, but as of today a patch has landed in Mesa-git to fix them both ready for Mesa 17.2.
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