LLVMpipe Articles & Reviews |
| LLVMpipe vs. OpenSWR Software Rendering On A 40 Core / 80 Thread Tyan Server | Display Drivers | 2017-08-27 |
| Gallium3D LLVMpipe Performance In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | Display Drivers | 2014-04-10 |
| Gallium3D LLVMpipe Compared To Nine Graphics Cards | Display Drivers | 2013-04-30 |
| Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Driver Is Now Much Faster | Display Drivers | 2013-04-14 |
| Mesa 9.1-devel LLVMpipe With LLVM 3.1/3.2 | Display Drivers | 2012-11-30 |
| Gallium3D LLVMpipe On Mesa 9.0 | Display Drivers | 2012-10-11 |
| Unity 6.8 Doesn't Change Much For Performance | Operating Systems | 2012-10-07 |
| Ubuntu's Unity Decision Affects 2D Performance Too | Software | 2012-08-20 |
| LLVMpipe On Mesa 8.1 Performance | Display Drivers | 2012-08-07 |
| TitaniumGL: A Faster Multi-Platform Graphics Driver Architecture? | Display Drivers | 2012-03-09 |
| Intel Sandy Bridge Shines With Mesa 8.0 | Display Drivers | 2012-01-18 |
| Nouveau For Open-Source NVIDIA In Mesa 8.0 Is Mixed | Display Drivers | 2012-01-16 |
| Gallium3D LLVMpipe On The Sandy Bridge Extreme | Display Drivers | 2011-12-13 |
| LLVMpipe Performance On AMD Bulldozer, Intel Sandy Bridge | Processors | 2011-11-04 |
| Gallium3D LLVMpipe Starts To Smoke | Display Drivers | 2011-09-23 |
| Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Under LLVM 2.9 | Software | 2011-03-26 |
| A Batch Of Graphics Cards On Gallium3D | Graphics Cards | 2011-02-11 |
| Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Is Speeding Up | Display Drivers | 2011-01-17 |
| LLVMpipe Scaling With Intel's Core i7 Gulftown | Processors | 2010-11-01 |
| Gallium3D / LLVMpipe With LLVM 2.8 | Display Drivers | 2010-10-08 |
| Nouveau With Mesa 7.9 Is Better, But Still Slow | Display Drivers | 2010-10-06 |
| LLVMpipe With Intel's GLSL2 Compiler | Display Drivers | 2010-08-11 |
| Intel Core i3 LLVMpipe Performance | Processors | 2010-07-05 |
| LLVMpipe Still Is Slow At Running OpenGL On The CPU | Display Drivers | 2010-06-29 |
| ATI R500 Gallium3D Performance In June 2010 | Display Drivers | 2010-06-07 |
| LLVMpipe: OpenGL With Gallium3D on Your CPU | Display Drivers | 2010-04-30 |
LLVMpipe Linux & Open-Source News |
| Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2026-05-06 |
| Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan | Mesa | 2026-05-05 |
| Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations | Mesa | 2026-04-15 |
| Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe | Mesa | 2026-04-05 |
| Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04 | Ubuntu | 2026-03-14 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Now Exposes Mesh Shader Support | Mesa | 2026-03-14 |
| Apple M3 Progress On Linux: Asahi Can Boot To KDE Desktop - But No GPU Acceleration Yet | Apple | 2026-01-27 |
| Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support | AI | 2026-01-12 |
| Mesa 25.2.7 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-11-12 |
| Tinygrad Gains A Mesa NIR Backend - Initially Supporting NVK/NAK & LLVMpipe Execution | AI | 2025-10-15 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For 8x MSAA | Mesa | 2025-08-28 |
| Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| Intel Iris Linux Driver Lands Shared Virtual Memory Support | Intel | 2025-06-11 |
| Mesa's Rusticl Lands OpenCL FP16 Half-Float Support | Mesa | 2025-06-05 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Wires Up More Features Used By VKD3D-Proton | Mesa | 2025-05-09 |
| Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols | Wayland | 2025-04-20 |
| Rusticl OpenCL Driver Nearing Cross-Vendor Shared Virtual Memory Support | Mesa | 2025-01-04 |
| Mesa 24.2-rc3 Released With More Intel Xe2 Graphics Fixes | Mesa | 2024-07-31 |
| Rusticl In Mesa 24.2 Now Supports OpenCL Read-Write Images | Mesa | 2024-07-19 |
| Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines | Mesa | 2024-04-10 |
| Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling | Mesa | 2024-02-29 |
| Rusticl OpenCL Still Striving For Better Performance, SYCL & HIP Features | Mesa | 2023-10-20 |
| LLVMpipe Now Exposes Shared Virtual Memory Support | Mesa | 2023-07-22 |
| Mesa's Rusticl Implements OpenCL Subgroups | Mesa | 2023-07-08 |
| Lavapipe Lands Vulkan Descriptors Support, Can Run Some VKD3D-Proton Games | Mesa | 2023-07-01 |
| Tracking The OpenCL Support Status With Mesa Drivers | Mesa | 2023-06-13 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Adds Vulkan Task/Mesh Shader Support | Mesa | 2023-06-06 |
| Linux VGEM Driver Rewritten In Rust Sent Out For Review | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-21 |
| Linux's VGEM Kernel Driver Being Rewritten In Rust | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-01 |
| Mesa 23.1 Gets Basic LoongArch Support | Mesa | 2023-02-27 |
| Intel Open-Sources Its OpenCL CPU-Based Runtime | Intel | 2023-02-17 |
| Mesa 22.3-rc2 Released With A Few AMD RDNA3 Fixes, V3DV Fixes For Raspberry Pi | Mesa | 2022-11-09 |
| Mesa 22.3-rc1 Released With Rusticl, Many Intel & Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-11-02 |
| Mesa 22.2.1 Released With Dozens Of OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-10-12 |
| Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2022-09-20 |
| Latest Mesa AGX Work Points To More Apple M1/M2 Similarities With PowerVR Graphics | Apple | 2022-09-07 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Begins Experimenting With AVX-512 Optimizations Ahead Of Zen 4 | Mesa | 2022-09-02 |
| Asahi Linux May Pursue Writing Apple Silicon GPU Driver In Rust | Apple | 2022-08-11 |
| Lavapipe Vulkan Software Implementation Now Compliant With Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-07-20 |
| Oh GuC: Intel ADL-P Graphics On Linux 5.19 Will Break Unless You Also Upgrade Firmware | Intel | 2022-07-14 |
| Asahi Linux Celebrates First Triangle On The Apple M1 With Fully Open-Source Driver | Apple | 2022-06-05 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Now Officially Vulkan 1.2 Conformant | Vulkan | 2022-05-27 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc5 Released With Dozens Of Fixes For Zink, RADV & Intel Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2022-05-11 |
| Mesa 22.0.1 Released With Many Fixes, AMD GFX1037/GFX1036 Backported | Mesa | 2022-03-29 |
| Mesa's CPU-Based Software Vulkan Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 | Vulkan | 2022-03-21 |
| Patches Pending That Bring Vulkan 1.3 To Lavapipe | Mesa | 2022-03-19 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Vulkan Software Implementation Adds More Extensions | Mesa | 2022-03-16 |
| LLVMpipe/Lavapipe Patches Land To Allow For Greater CPU Saturation | Mesa | 2022-02-21 |
| LLVMpipe Patches Pending For Faster Vertex/Fragment Processing | Mesa | 2022-02-18 |
| GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Can 2x The Desktop Performance For Intel Graphics, Raspberry Pi | GNOME | 2022-02-13 |
| Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan Now Offers Broader OpenGL Coverage Than RadeonSI, Intel | Mesa | 2022-01-20 |
| Intel's SWR Removed From Mainline Mesa, More Classic Code Cleaning Continues | Mesa | 2021-12-07 |
| Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink | Mesa | 2021-11-17 |
| Mesa 22.0 Zink Speeds Up OpenGL-Over-Vulkan On CPUs | Mesa | 2021-11-10 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling | Mesa | 2021-10-13 |
| Lavapipe Mesa Software Driver Enables Vulkan 1.2 Support | Mesa | 2021-09-27 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe + Lavapipe Land FP16 Support | Mesa | 2021-09-16 |
| Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-08-31 |
| Linux On The Apple M1 Can Now Boot To The GNOME Desktop But Lacking Acceleration | Apple | 2021-08-23 |
| Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support | Mesa | 2021-08-17 |
| X.Org Server Adds "Fake Screen FPS" Option | X.Org | 2021-08-04 |
| Lavapipe Keeps Tacking On Features, LLVMpipe Lands New Rasterizer With 2~3x Faster 2D | Mesa | 2021-07-29 |
| Mesa 21.2-rc3 Offered For Testing, Mesa 21.1.6 Reaches Stable | Mesa | 2021-07-28 |
| LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported | Mesa | 2021-07-21 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver For Open-Source Arm Mali Graphics Now Has OpenGL ES 3.1 | Mesa | 2021-06-10 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Driver Re-Released | Radeon | 2021-05-13 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Brings Minor Improvements But No Vulkan Ray-Tracing Yet | Radeon | 2021-04-28 |
| Mesa 21.1 Squeezes In Improvements For Direct3D 9 (Gallium Nine) | Mesa | 2021-04-14 |
| Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Ported To Windows | Mesa | 2021-02-25 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Flips On ARB_gl_spirv, Help Sought For Lavapipe Windows Port | Mesa | 2021-02-11 |
| LibreSOC Still Striving To Produce An Open-Source Hybrid CPU/GPU Built On OpenPOWER | Hardware | 2021-02-06 |
| Zink Can Now Run On Lavapipe But You Really Want To Avoid It | Mesa | 2021-02-05 |
| Mesa 21.0 Is Now Working With Haiku OS For Software OpenGL Rendering | Mesa | 2021-01-10 |
| Mesa 21.0 Has Finally Killed The Classic "SWRAST" Software Rasterizer | Mesa | 2020-12-31 |
| Lavapipe Continues Advancing CPU-Based Vulkan - Now Supports Transform Feedback | Mesa | 2020-12-21 |
| Classic OSMesa Retires In Mesa 21.0 As The Worst Of The Software Rendering Paths | Mesa | 2020-12-11 |
| Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2020-12-03 |
| Mesa 20.3 Is Near With Lavapipe Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV, Better AMD RDNA2 Support | Mesa | 2020-11-30 |
| Godot Game Engine Has Been Backing "Betsy" As A GPU-Based Texture Compressor | Linux Gaming | 2020-11-26 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Is Officially Vulkan Conformant, Lavapipe Also Nearing 1.0 Conformance | Vulkan | 2020-11-24 |
| Airlie: "Why Sharing Code With Windows Isn't Always A Win" | Mesa | 2020-11-11 |
| Mesa 20.3-RC1 Released With Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV Added | Mesa | 2020-11-11 |
| Mesa 21.0 Feature Development Opens For Release In Q1-2021 | Mesa | 2020-11-09 |
| LLVMpipe Is Now Officially Conformant With OpenGL 4.5 | Mesa | 2020-10-30 |
| Nouveau + LLVMpipe Drivers Enable OpenCL Image Support | Mesa | 2020-10-21 |
| Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe | Vulkan | 2020-10-01 |
| Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support | Mesa | 2020-09-29 |
| Mesa 20.2 Aiming For Release Next Week As Big Advancement For Open-Source GPU Drivers | Mesa | 2020-09-03 |
| Mesa 20.2 Should Be Released In About Two Weeks - LLVMpipe OpenGL 4.5 Enabled | Mesa | 2020-08-28 |
| Mesa Softpipe Set To See Better Performance, Introducing New NIR-To-TGSI Path | Mesa | 2020-08-26 |
| Some Ugly Code Can Get NVIDIA's Linux Driver Working With Accelerated XWayland | NVIDIA | 2020-08-23 |
| Why VALLIUM Is Just For Software-Based Vulkan & Not GPU Hardware Drivers | Vulkan | 2020-08-20 |
| OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2 | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| VALLIUM Merged Into Mesa 20.3 As Vulkan Front-End To Gallium3D | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| LLVMpipe Has Patches Bringing It To OpenGL 4.5 Support | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| Mesa 20.2-RC2 Released With Many Fixes For RadeonSI + RADV Drivers | Mesa | 2020-08-12 |
| Mesa 20.2 Development Ends After Many New Features Land | Mesa | 2020-08-06 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3 | Mesa | 2020-07-22 |
| Mesa 20.1.3 Brings More Fixes To The Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers | Mesa | 2020-07-09 |
| LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs | Mesa | 2020-07-06 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0 | Mesa | 2020-07-02 |
| Mesa 20.0.8 Released To End Out The Series | Mesa | 2020-06-12 |
| LLVMpipe Gains Support For On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2020-06-10 |
| Mesa 20.1 Features Include Big Improvements For Open-Source Intel, Radeon Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2020-05-27 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support | Mesa | 2020-05-06 |
| Mesa "Vallium" - Software/CPU-Based Vulkan Based On LLVMpipe | Vulkan | 2020-04-24 |
| Intel Working On OpenGL 4.x Support For Their OpenSWR Software Rasterizer In Mesa | Intel | 2020-03-24 |
| GNOME 3.36 Set To Be Released Today With Ongoing Wayland + Performance Improvements | GNOME | 2020-03-11 |
| LLVMpipe Tessellation Shader Support Is Now Working - Runs Unigine Heaven | Mesa | 2020-02-28 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter See Changes For Tracking Software Rendering, VNC To Toggle Animations | GNOME | 2020-02-20 |
| Mesa 20.0-rc1 Released With Intel Gallium3D Default, OpenGL 4.6 for RadeonSI, Vulkan 1.2 | Mesa | 2020-01-30 |
| Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support | Intel | 2020-01-24 |
| Mesa 20.0 Feature Development Is Ending Next Week | Mesa | 2020-01-23 |
| Gallium3D's Software Rasterizers Are Close To Having OpenGL Tessellation Support | Mesa | 2019-12-30 |
| Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU | Mesa | 2019-12-27 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Driver Now Uses NIR By Default | Mesa | 2019-12-21 |
| Ten Years Past GNOME's 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare | GNOME | 2019-12-14 |
| Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code | Intel | 2019-12-11 |
| Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Lands NIR Support Plus Radeon R600g NIR Support Is Forthcoming | Mesa | 2019-11-28 |
| Mesa 19.2.6 Released Due To POWER Fallout | Mesa | 2019-11-22 |
| Mesa 19.2.5 Released With Intel Vulkan + RadeonSI Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2019-11-20 |
| GNOME Mutter Adds Intermediate ShadowFB For Faster Software Rendering | GNOME | 2019-11-04 |
| Khronos Opens Door For Allowing More Open-Source Drivers To Reach Conformance Status | Mesa | 2019-10-16 |
| Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support | Mesa | 2019-09-04 |
| Google's SwiftShader Now Supports Vulkan 1.1 | Vulkan | 2019-08-28 |
| Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions | Mesa | 2019-08-27 |
| LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Implementation Picks Up More GL4 Extensions | Mesa | 2019-07-08 |
| Libre RISC-V Snags $50k EUR Grant To Work On Its RISC-V 3D GPU Chip | RISC-V | 2019-06-05 |
| XWayland Receive An EGL-Based GLX Provider, Helping Various Games On Linux | X.Org | 2019-05-24 |
| Softpipe Improvements Land In Mesa 19.1 Allowing For More OpenGL 4.x Bits | Mesa | 2019-05-01 |
| Redox OS 0.5 Released With New C Library Written In Rust | Operating Systems | 2019-03-24 |
| Chamferwm: A Vulkan-Powered X11 Window Manager | Vulkan | 2019-02-18 |
| Nouveau Open-Source Driver Will Now Work With NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti On Linux 5.0 | Nouveau | 2019-01-18 |
| GNOME 3.32 Will Do A Better Job Picking The Primary GPU - Helping Out USB Displays, Etc | GNOME | 2019-01-13 |
| GNOME On Wayland Is No Longer Frustratingly Slow With ASpeed Graphics | GNOME | 2019-01-04 |
| A Look At The LLVMpipe OpenGL Performance On Mesa 19.0 With A 64C/128T Server | Mesa | 2018-12-16 |
| The Libre RISC-V Vulkan Accelerator Will Be Targeting 25 FPS @ 720p, 5~6 GFLOPs | RISC-V | 2018-12-05 |
| The EOMA68 Libre Computer Developer Wants To Tackle A Quad-Core RISC-V Libre SoC Design | RISC-V | 2018-11-29 |
| The Open-Source AMD Linux Driver Stack Hitting Problems With The Radeon RX 590 | Radeon | 2018-11-16 |
| The Kazan Vulkan CPU/Software-Based Implementation Being Rewritten In Rust | Vulkan | 2018-10-04 |
| There's A New Libre GPU Effort Building On RISC-V, Rust, LLVM & Vulkan | RISC-V | 2018-09-28 |
| KDE Plasma 5.14's Lock Screen Will No Longer Eat Your CPU Resources On Old Hardware | KDE | 2018-08-12 |
| Collabora's Work On KMS_SWRAST For Android Graphics Fallback | Mesa | 2018-08-02 |
| TI Posts Open-Source DRI3 WSEGL Plug-In For PowerVR SGX Graphics | X.Org | 2018-04-16 |
| Mesa's Gallium HUD Gets A Simple Option | Mesa | 2018-04-14 |
| POCL 1.1 Released With Experimental SPIR/SPIR-V Support | Standards | 2018-03-09 |
| Mesa 18.1 Receives OpenGL 3.1 With ARB_compatibility For Gallium3D Drivers | Mesa | 2018-02-23 |
| OpenSWR Rasterizer Improvements Land Ahead Of Mesa 18.0 | Intel | 2018-01-20 |
| Linux Graphics Trends Over The Past Five Years | Hardware | 2018-01-13 |
| Even With An Intel Core i9 7980XE, LLVMpipe Is Still Slow | Mesa | 2018-01-02 |
