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.
Marek Olšák of AMD has recently been working on a number of Next Gen Geometry enhancements for the RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers for benefiting modern AMD RDNA graphics on Linux. But given that Mesa 25.2 code branching is next week that marks the feature freeze for this quarter's Mesa feature release, it remained to be seen if all four sets of NGG patches would be reviewed and merged in time. Fortunately, they have.
All four merge requests are now in Mesa Git in time for the 25.2 branching and stable release in August. The third part merged since the prior article brings RADV performance optimizations with enabling more functionality.
Lastly, part four was merged on Saturday. That last portion of code from Marek brought many RadeonSI Gallium3D driver changes and removing the old LLVM LDS linking code.
The next round of AMD Radeon graphics benchmarks on Phoronix will likely be shortly after the Mesa 25.2 code branching as we wait to see what more feature work may get squeezed in over the next few days. The Mesa 25.2 branching is expected to happen on or around 16 July while the stable release could come as early as early August but could track later into the month depending upon the blocker bug count.
Marek Olšák of AMD has recently been working on a number of Next Gen Geometry enhancements for the RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers for benefiting modern AMD RDNA graphics on Linux. But given that Mesa 25.2 code branching is next week that marks the feature freeze for this quarter's Mesa feature release, it remained to be seen if all four sets of NGG patches would be reviewed and merged in time. Fortunately, they have.
All four merge requests are now in Mesa Git in time for the 25.2 branching and stable release in August. The third part merged since the prior article brings RADV performance optimizations with enabling more functionality.
Lastly, part four was merged on Saturday. That last portion of code from Marek brought many RadeonSI Gallium3D driver changes and removing the old LLVM LDS linking code.
The next round of AMD Radeon graphics benchmarks on Phoronix will likely be shortly after the Mesa 25.2 code branching as we wait to see what more feature work may get squeezed in over the next few days. The Mesa 25.2 branching is expected to happen on or around 16 July while the stable release could come as early as early August but could track later into the month depending upon the blocker bug count.