Marek Articles & Reviews |
| Benchmarking The New RadeonSI/Gallium3D Threaded Support | Display Drivers | 2017-05-11 |
| Radeon HyperZ R300g Performance | Display Drivers | 2012-12-04 |
| AMD R600g Performance Patches Yield Mixed Results | Display Drivers | 2012-11-02 |
Marek Linux & Open-Source News |
| RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching | Radeon | 2026-06-10 |
| Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver | Radeon | 2026-06-02 |
| Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve | Valve | 2026-05-16 |
| RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026 | Radeon | 2026-03-29 |
| AMD Lands Fresh Performance Improvements For RDNA4 In RadeonSI Driver | Radeon | 2026-01-22 |
| Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 | Mesa | 2026-01-05 |
| RadeonSI Starts 2026 With NIR Compilation Refactoring For Better Performance, Lower GLSL Compile Times | Radeon | 2026-01-02 |
| The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 | Mesa | 2025-12-30 |
| Mesa 26.0 Bringing Support For 64K x 64K Textures With AMD RDNA4 GPUs | Mesa | 2025-12-06 |
| GCC Compiler Developers Begin Considering C++20 Default | GNU | 2025-11-14 |
| AMD RadeonSI Driver Now Defaults To Enabling ACO For Faster Performance | Mesa | 2025-10-29 |
| AMD RadeonSI Driver Enables OpenGL Sparse Texture Support For RDNA4 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-07-24 |
| Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting | Mesa | 2025-07-22 |
| AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching | Mesa | 2025-07-13 |
| Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Radeon | 2025-07-06 |
| 16-bit Medium Precision Improvements Merged For AMD Radeon Mesa Code | Mesa | 2025-06-15 |
| AMDGPU High Priority Graphics User Queue Support Merged For Mesa 25.2 | Radeon | 2025-05-30 |
| More Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA4" Open-Source Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.1 | Mesa | 2025-04-16 |
| RadeonSI Driver Wires Up Support For 16-bit NIR Types: Benefits GLES & OpenCL | Mesa | 2025-04-09 |
| Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-03-30 |
| RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL | Radeon | 2025-03-27 |
| New Round Of Driver Optimizations For AMD RadeonSI In Mesa 25.1 | Mesa | 2025-03-07 |
| Christoph Hellwig Steps Down From One Of His Kernel Roles Following Rust Drama | Linux Kernel | 2025-02-25 |
| Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO | Radeon | 2025-01-29 |
| Cloudflare Talks Up Multi-Path TCP But Dings Linux's Less Than Ideal Support | Linux Networking | 2025-01-03 |
| 32 Patches Merged For More Unification Between RadeonSI OpenGL & RADV Vulkan Drivers | Radeon | 2025-01-02 |
| Mesa Saw Fewer Patches This Year But Valve's Contributions Took The Top Spot | Mesa | 2024-12-31 |
| RadeonSI Driver Now Uses ACO By Default For Pre-RDNA GPUs | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| Intel Mesa Code Lands Big Patch Series For Treating Convergent Values As SIMD8 | Intel | 2024-12-25 |
| AMD GPU Driver Engineer Marek Olšák Lands Mesa 25.0 Optimizations For Christmas | Mesa | 2024-12-24 |
| Mesa's Zink Driver Now Supports OpenGL VR Extensions | Mesa | 2024-09-18 |
| Idea Raised For Reducing The Size Of The AMDGPU Driver With Its Massive Header Files | Radeon | 2024-09-16 |
| Mesa 24.3 Sees "Substantial Improvement" To AMD Clear/Copy-Buffer Compute Shader | Mesa | 2024-08-10 |
| RadeonSI Driver Sees GPU Hang Fixes - RDNA4 Fixes, Optimally Programming "OREO MODE" | Radeon | 2024-08-06 |
| Marek Olšák Lands Support In Mesa 24.2 To Vectorize IO In The GLSL Linker | Mesa | 2024-06-18 |
| Marek Lands 40 Patch Series To Further Enhance The Open-Source AMD Graphics Driver | Mesa | 2024-06-12 |
| VCN5 AV1 Encode & More AMD RDNA4 RADV Support Land In Mesa 24.2 | Radeon | 2024-06-01 |
| New AMD RDNA3 APUs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver Along With RDNA4 Fixes | Radeon | 2024-05-24 |
| AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Support Merged For Mesa's RadeonSI Driver | Radeon | 2024-05-12 |
| Radeon OpenGL Linux Driver Massively Improves 3D Texturing Performance For Older GPUs | Radeon | 2024-04-30 |
| RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1 | Radeon | 2024-04-24 |
| The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers | Mesa | 2024-03-19 |
| RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1 | Radeon | 2024-03-16 |
| Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls | Mesa | 2024-02-26 |
| Mesa Eyes Pulling libdrm Into Its Codebase | Mesa | 2024-01-17 |
| AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024 | Radeon | 2024-01-08 |
| GCC Preparing To Introduce "-fhardened" Security Hardening Option | GNU | 2023-09-15 |
| AMD Isn't Done Yet Optimizing The Mesa RadeonSI Driver For Workstation OpenGL | Radeon | 2023-08-17 |
| GCC 14 Adds Initial "-std=c++26" Plumbing | GNU | 2023-06-24 |
| AMD Is Hiring For Another Open-Source Linux/Mesa Developer | Radeon | 2023-05-08 |
| Open-Source AMD OpenGL Driver Drops Support For Smart Access Memory / ReBAR | Radeon | 2023-03-08 |
| RADV Enables Variable Rate Shading For RDNA3, RadeonSI Lands More Fixes | Radeon | 2023-03-08 |
| Many Radeon RX 7000 Series "RDNA3" Fixes Land In Mesa 23.1 | Radeon | 2023-02-25 |
| Many Small Updates To The Radeon RX 7000 Series / AMD RDNA3 Support Land In Mesa | Radeon | 2023-02-03 |
| AMDGPU Linux 6.3 Addition To Help With Optimized Buffer Placement | Radeon | 2023-01-21 |
| Mesa Open-Source 3D Drivers Experienced Record Growth In 2022 | Mesa | 2022-12-29 |
| 22 Patches From AMD Further Along Mesa's Workstation Performance | Mesa | 2022-12-16 |
| Mesa 22.3 Lands Open-Source Radeon Driver CPU Overhead Optimizations | Radeon | 2022-09-27 |
| AMD Radeon Linux OpenGL Driver Makes More Optimizations, Eyes GL Threading By Default | Radeon | 2022-08-28 |
| AMD Lands A Number Of RadeonSI RDNA NGG Fixes Ahead Of RDNA3 Enabling | Radeon | 2022-06-12 |
| Mesa 22.2 RadeonSI Adds Option To Disable AMD Infinity Cache Usage, Other Changes | Radeon | 2022-05-17 |
| GCC 12's Shiny New C++ Features - More Of C++23 Implemented | GNU | 2022-05-01 |
| LibreOffice Sees New Activity For Compiling To WebAssembly | LibreOffice | 2022-01-19 |
| It's 2022 But AMD's Open-Source OpenGL Driver Isn't Done Being Optimized | Mesa | 2022-01-05 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Adds Option To Limit Number Of Enabled CUs | Radeon | 2022-01-05 |
| The Most Exciting AMD Linux / Open-Source News Of 2021 | AMD | 2021-12-29 |
| Mesa Open-Source GPU Drivers Enjoyed Near-Record Growth In 2021, Valve Dev Top Contributor | Mesa | 2021-12-26 |
| Intel's Lead Developer Of Their Linux Vulkan Driver Has Left The Company | Intel | 2021-12-19 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Wires Up Wave32 Improvements For RDNA GPUs | Radeon | 2021-12-13 |
| Minecraft Now 30% Faster With Open-Source AMD Radeon Driver On Linux | Radeon | 2021-11-26 |
| More RadeonSI Optimizations Land In Mesa 22.0 | Mesa | 2021-11-20 |
| GCC & LLVM Patches Pending To Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks | Linux Security | 2021-11-01 |
| RadeonSI Lands Yet Another Round Of Optimizations That Further Reduce CPU Overhead | Mesa | 2021-10-29 |
| RadeonSI Enables NGG Shader Culling For Navi 1x Consumer GPUs | Radeon | 2021-10-19 |
| Radeon Gallium3D Picks Up A Nice Performance Optimization For iGPU/dGPU PRIME Setups | Radeon | 2021-10-07 |
| RadeonSI Lands Another Big Overhead Optimization - "Substantially" Helps In Some Cases | Mesa | 2021-10-04 |
| RadeonSI Lands Big Batch Of Improvements To Lower CPU Overhead | Radeon | 2021-09-14 |
| Another Batch Of RadeonSI Optimizations Land In Mesa 21.3 | Radeon | 2021-09-11 |
| AMD Just Squeezed More Workstation Performance Out Of Its RadeonSI Driver | Radeon | 2021-09-10 |
| RadeonSI Enables DCC Stores For RDNA2 APUs To Squeeze Out More Performance | Radeon | 2021-09-01 |
| AMD's Open-Source Mesa Driver Continues To Be Ruthlessly Optimized For Workstation Performance | Radeon | 2021-08-24 |
| AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm | AMD | 2021-07-04 |
| Mesa's Exciting Milestones So Far In 2021 From Zink To Great Intel/AMD Open-Source Work | Mesa | 2021-06-27 |
| Mesa Lands Work Around Async glFlush - Should Help Workstation Performance | Mesa | 2021-06-20 |
| Mesa 21.1.2 Released - RadeonSI Now Disables DFSM For Vega To Fix Performance Drop | Mesa | 2021-06-02 |
| Qualcomm Adreno 660 Support Published For Open-Source MSM DRM Driver | Hardware | 2021-05-13 |
| Mesa Fixes Up The Recent L3 Cache Pinning Rework | Mesa | 2021-05-04 |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April | Phoronix | 2021-05-01 |
| AMD Proposing Redesign For How Linux GPU Drivers Work - Explicit Fences Everywhere | Mesa | 2021-04-20 |
| The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021 | Mesa | 2021-03-29 |
| AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead | Radeon | 2021-03-24 |
| Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly | LibreOffice | 2021-02-10 |
| Mesa Continues With More Optimizations For Workstation OpenGL Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-31 |
| More OpenGL Threading Improvements Land For Mesa 21.1 | Mesa | 2021-01-21 |
| Radeon Linux Drivers Now Only Officially Support Smart Access Memory On Zen 3 + RDNA2 | Mesa | 2021-01-05 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| Mesa 21.0 Begins Landing Optimizations For AMD Smart Access Memory | AMD | 2020-12-09 |
| RadeonSI Finally Sees Experimental ACO Patches As Alternative To LLVM Shader Compiler | Radeon | 2020-12-07 |
| Mesa Now 2~5x Faster For SPECViewPerf Following OpenGL Optimizations | Mesa | 2020-12-01 |
| RadeonSI Lands Optimization For Uber Shaders | Mesa | 2020-10-30 |
| Mesa 20.3 Lands Rewritten AMD Zen L3 Cache Optimization | Mesa | 2020-10-30 |
| Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe | Vulkan | 2020-10-01 |
| RadeonSI Resorts To Disabling SDMA For GFX9/Vega Due To APU Issues | Radeon | 2020-08-05 |
| RadeonSI Lands Bits In Mesa 20.2 For Better Dealing With GPU Virtualization | Mesa | 2020-07-22 |
| RadeonSI Switches To Make Greater Wave64 Use On Navi | Radeon | 2020-07-01 |
| GCC 11 Proposal Would Default To C++17 Level Features | GNU | 2020-05-17 |
| AMD's Marek Olšák Lands Even More OpenGL Threading Improvements Into Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-04-06 |
| Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps | Mesa | 2020-04-02 |
| RadeonSI Experimenting With Compute-Based Culling For Navi/GFX10 | Radeon | 2020-03-28 |
| Radeon OpenGL Driver Lands Experimental Option To Boost Performance For CAD Software | Radeon | 2020-03-26 |
| OpenGL Threading "GLTHREAD" Seeing Improvements For Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-03-21 |
| Mesa 20.1 Lands OpenGL Threading Improvements | Mesa | 2020-03-06 |
| RadeonSI Introduces A Live Shader Cache With Mesa 20.0 | Mesa | 2020-01-25 |
| RADV's Next-Gen Geometry Code Continues To Be Revised For Navi GPUs | Radeon | 2020-01-13 |
| Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2020-01-03 |
| The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s | Radeon | 2019-12-18 |
| RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs | Mesa | 2019-12-10 |
| The Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Important Performance Feature | Mesa | 2019-12-10 |
| Mesa Developers Weigh Renaming Gallium "State Tracker" To "API" | Mesa | 2019-12-05 |
| Mesa Devs Discuss Potentially Dropping Non-Gallium Drivers Or Forking Code For Gallium | Mesa | 2019-12-04 |
| 7 Days To Die Is Another Game Seeing A Big Bump From Mesa OpenGL Threading | Mesa | 2019-11-19 |
| Mesa 19.3 Adds Support For New AMDGPU Reset Interface | Mesa | 2019-10-29 |
| Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3 | Mesa | 2019-10-18 |
| Libdrm 2.4.100 Released With Bits For Intel Elkhart Lake, Tiger Lake Graphics | Mesa | 2019-10-17 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Gets MSAA Working | Mesa | 2019-10-16 |
| Mesa's DRM Library Looking To Change Its Versioning Scheme | Mesa | 2019-10-11 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Is Back To Seeing Activity | Mesa | 2019-09-27 |
| AMD To Land Support For Navi 14 Into The Upcoming Mesa 19.2 Driver Stack | Radeon | 2019-08-27 |
| TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI | Mesa | 2019-08-12 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Picks Up A NIR Compiler | Mesa | 2019-08-07 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds Navi Wave32 Support | Radeon | 2019-07-20 |
| More RadeonSI Navi Improvements Are Pending | Mesa | 2019-07-06 |
| Libdrm 2.4.99 Released With Navi Support, AMDGPU Changes | Mesa | 2019-07-03 |
| Radeon Navi Support Pending For RadeonSI OpenGL Driver With 47k Line Worth Of Changes | Radeon | 2019-06-26 |
| RadeonSI Gets Some Tidying Ahead Of Navi/GFX10 Support (Radeon RX 5700 Series) | Radeon | 2019-06-20 |
| ATI R300 Gallium3D Driver Seeing A Big Performance Fix After Being Regressed For Years | Radeon | 2019-06-05 |
| RadeonSI Primitive Culling Lands In Mesa 19.2 | Mesa | 2019-05-20 |
| Mesa Is About To Crack 2.7 Million Lines | Mesa | 2019-04-29 |
| AMD's Marek Has A Patch Helping To Reduce Gallium3D Input Lag | Mesa | 2019-04-27 |
| Mesa 19.1 To Expose EXT_gpu_shader4 Support | Mesa | 2019-04-25 |
| AMD Lands Displayable DCC Support For Raven APUs In Mesa 19.1's RadeonSI | Mesa | 2019-04-04 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D In Mesa 19.1 Enables Parallel Shader Compile Support | Radeon | 2019-04-01 |
| RadeonSI Driver Adding Displayable DCC For Raven Ridge | Radeon | 2019-03-01 |
| RadeonSI Gets Patches To Finally Tap The Parallel Shader Compile Extensions | Radeon | 2019-02-25 |
| RadeonSI Gets NIR Improvements, Enabled By Default For Civilization VI | Radeon | 2019-02-19 |
| RadeonSI Primitive Culling Yields Mixed Benchmark Results | Radeon | 2019-02-14 |
| RadeonSI Picks Up Primitive Culling With Async Compute For Performance Wins | Mesa | 2019-02-13 |
| AMD_DEBUG Can Now Be Used In Place Of R600_DEBUG For RadeonSI Options | Radeon | 2019-02-13 |
| Starcraft 2 In Wine & Select Games Could See Nice Performance Win With RadeonSI Patches | Radeon | 2019-02-07 |
| Libdrm 2.4.97 Released With AMDGPU Updates, Other Minor Work | Mesa | 2019-01-22 |
