Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...

Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV - Phoronix

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for ...

Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...

Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations - Phoronix

Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platf...

Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too...

Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake - Phoronix

While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support f...

Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee…

Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned - Phoronix

The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous roun...

RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy) Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf…

RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy) - Phoronix

Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy ext...

Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...

Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux - Phoronix

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box

Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as well as the modern OpenGL approach of using Zink for layering OpenGL atop Vulkan. Here are some fresh benchmarks using the very latest Mesa 25.2 code for NVK on the latest u…

Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series - Phoronix

A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan ...

RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioning are continued Vulkan Video improvements for AMD Radeon graphics...

RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing i...

Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...

Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available - Phoronix

Debian's annual Debian Conference 'DebConf' started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France.

AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux. Some of that code hadn't been merged as of writing but fortunately this week the remainder of the NGG improvements were successfully merged to Mesa Git for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 release...

AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching - Phoronix

Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry 'NGG' improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drive...