• Some Fresh Tests With Mesa's Continuing KHR_no_error Work

  Given the continued flow of KHR_no_error patches hitting Mesa 17.2 Git by Valve developers, here is a fresh comparison using the just-updated Padoka PPA with comparing the impact of using this support via the MESA_NO_ERROR=1 switch.

• AMD's GPUOpen Releases Baikal Renderer

  The Baikal renderer is a newly-released, open-source implementation of the AMD Radeon ProRender API. Baikal has evolved into a fully-functional rendering engine and its only hardware requirement is on OpenCL 1.2.

• Marek Takes To RadeonSI Tweaking For Unigine Superposition

• Vulkan vs. OpenGL On Linux With Core i5, Core i7, Ryzen 7

  For those curious about the state of the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) vs. OpenGL (RadeonSI) performance with different Intel and AMD CPUs, here are some fresh benchmark results with the current Vulkan-supported prominent Linux game titles of Dota 2, Mad Max, Talos Principle, and Dawn of War III. During this opportunity for the tests across Core i5 / Core i7 / Ryzen 7 hardware were also CPU usage analytics.

Here is some more complementary data to this week's Vulkan vs. OpenGL On Linux With Core i5, Core i7, Ryzen 7.

With having the Intel Xeon Skylake + Radeon RX 470 box powered up yesterday/today with the latest Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev stack for the new Mesa KHR_no_error testing, afterwards I kicked off some fresh benchmarks with that system for OpenGL vs. Vulkan using the Phoronix Test Suite.

• Intel KVMGT/XenGT GVT-g Updated For 2017-Q2

  Intel developers have issued their quarterly official update to their GVT-g graphics virtualization technology stack for Linux KVM and Xen virtualization.

• Radeon Instinct Accelerators Get Ready To Ship

  Not only is AMD getting ready to take on Intel in the server space with their just-launched EPYC 7000 series, they are looking to battle NVIDIA now in the GPU server arena. Following their announcement at the end of last year, Radeon Instinct accelerators for GPU compute servers are getting ready to ship.

• Intel Preps Another Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 4.13

  Intel has queued up another round of feature changes slated for the Linux 4.13 kernel.

  Intel open-source developers had already queued up a fair amount of work already this cycle in DRM-Next while today's pull request will likely be their last batch of real feature work with the DRM-Next window closing around this week.

• GSoC Work On Nouveau Instruction Scheduling Advances

  Student open-source developer Boyan Ding has been working this summer on an instruction scheduler for the Nouveau driver in order to achieve greater performance with more efficient shader code.

• AMD Radeon Linux Gamers Get Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Improves inc

  Collabora's Emil Velikov announced today the release and immediate availability of the third maintenance update to the Mesa 17.1 stable series of the open-source graphics stack for GNU/Linux operating systems.

  If you're a Linux gamer using AMD Radeon or Intel graphics cards, then you must have the latest Mesa 3D Graphics Library installed on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, and today's Mesa 17.1.3 point release is the most advanced one adding multiple improvements across several of the included open-source drivers.

• Trying the experimental GCN 1.0 support in AMDGPU

  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.

  Before I get to the actual testing I think I should first write down a couple of words about the kernel drivers and why this testing was done to begin with.