NIR Articles & Reviews |
| RadeonSI NIR Benchmarks Show Great Progress With Mesa 20.0 | Display Drivers | 2019-12-06 |
| Running The RadeonSI NIR Back-End With Mesa 19.1 Git | Display Drivers | 2019-02-10 |
NIR Linux & Open-Source News |
| 24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework | Radeon | 2026-05-28 |
| KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics | Mesa | 2026-05-28 |
| Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026 | Radeon | 2026-05-11 |
| Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs | Intel | 2026-04-07 |
| Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support | AI | 2026-01-12 |
| RadeonSI Starts 2026 With NIR Compilation Refactoring For Better Performance, Lower GLSL Compile Times | Radeon | 2026-01-02 |
| At Least Two New Open-Source NPU Accelerator Drivers Expected In 2026 | AI | 2025-11-12 |
| AMD RadeonSI Driver Now Defaults To Enabling ACO For Faster Performance | Mesa | 2025-10-29 |
| Mesa NVK Lands Support For VK_NVX_image_view_handle - Needed For NVIDIA DLSS | Nouveau | 2025-10-16 |
| Tinygrad Gains A Mesa NIR Backend - Initially Supporting NVK/NAK & LLVMpipe Execution | AI | 2025-10-15 |
| CLUDA Posted For Mesa: Gallium3D API Implemented Atop NVIDIA CUDA Driver API | Mesa | 2025-10-12 |
| Mesa 25.3 Lands More Changes To Prepare For OpenGL Mesh Shaders | Mesa | 2025-08-22 |
| AMD RadeonSI Driver Enables OpenGL Sparse Texture Support For RDNA4 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-07-24 |
| RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension | Mesa | 2025-06-25 |
| RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support | Radeon | 2025-06-23 |
| Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 | Intel | 2025-04-29 |
| RadeonSI Driver Wires Up Support For 16-bit NIR Types: Benefits GLES & OpenCL | Mesa | 2025-04-09 |
| NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat16 Support | Nouveau | 2025-03-26 |
| Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Lands OpenCL C Support In Mesa 25.1 | Mesa | 2025-02-11 |
| Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO | Radeon | 2025-01-29 |
| 32 Patches Merged For More Unification Between RadeonSI OpenGL & RADV Vulkan Drivers | Radeon | 2025-01-02 |
| Intel Mesa Code Lands Big Patch Series For Treating Convergent Values As SIMD8 | Intel | 2024-12-25 |
| Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers | Mesa | 2024-11-12 |
| Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2 Sample | Radeon | 2024-11-01 |
| Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker | Mesa | 2024-09-25 |
| Marek Olšák Lands Support In Mesa 24.2 To Vectorize IO In The GLSL Linker | Mesa | 2024-06-18 |
| Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024 | AMD | 2024-01-30 |
| Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable | Mesa | 2024-01-24 |
| Mesa RADV Driver Baking Improvements For VKD3D-Proton With AMD FSR3 | Mesa | 2024-01-07 |
| The Open-Source ATI R300 Graphics Driver Is Still Being Improved Upon In 2024 | Radeon | 2024-01-04 |
| Mesa 24.0 Receives Further TGSI-To-NIR Conversion Work For AMD RadeonSI | Radeon | 2024-01-02 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching | Mesa | 2023-09-28 |
| Radeon R600g Driver Retires Its SB Optimizer | Radeon | 2023-08-10 |
| AMD Linux Graphics No Longer Unusable For Blender Developers: 251 To 9 Seconds Speed-Up | Mesa | 2023-07-25 |
| The Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Improvements For OpenGL, WineD3D Apps/Games | Mesa | 2023-06-13 |
| VMware SVGA Graphics Driver Switches To NIR By Default | Mesa | 2023-06-12 |
| The Old Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D Driver Drops Its TGSI Code Path | Radeon | 2023-04-27 |
| RADV Lands Shader Caching For Graphics Pipeline Libraries | Radeon | 2023-04-04 |
| Mesa Zink Change Leads To 50% Reduction In Memory Utilization | Mesa | 2023-04-03 |
| Pending RADV Driver Change Leads To Much Lower System RAM Use For Some Games | Radeon | 2023-03-27 |
| Mesa 23.0.1 Released With Many Fixes For Intel / AMD / Zink | Mesa | 2023-03-26 |
| Microsoft's Dozen Up To A 98.5% Pass Rate For Vulkan 1.0 | Microsoft | 2023-01-10 |
| The Old Radeon "R600" Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Now Enables SPIR-V | Radeon | 2023-01-02 |
| Mesa 22.3.1 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-12-15 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Making Progress On Portal RTX Support | Mesa | 2022-12-14 |
| Mesa 22.2.5 Released To End Out The Series | Mesa | 2022-12-10 |
| Mesa 22.3 Will Hopefully Be Released Next Week With Improved Vulkan Drivers, Rusticl | Mesa | 2022-11-17 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Starting Work On New Compiler | Nouveau | 2022-11-08 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Wires Up Mesa Shader Disk Cache Support | Mesa | 2022-11-03 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Implements Front-End Shader Caching | Mesa | 2022-11-01 |
| Rusticl Support For AMD RadeonSI Driver Being Worked On | Mesa | 2022-09-26 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D Switches To Modern NIR Backend By Default | Radeon | 2022-09-23 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands A "Bunch" Of Ray Query Fixes | Intel | 2022-09-23 |
| Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2022-09-20 |
| Intel's Open-Source Driver Lands Vulkan Mesh Shader Support | Intel | 2022-09-02 |
| R600 Gallium3D Driver Receives NIR Backend Fixes For Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Series | Radeon | 2022-08-21 |
| RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Graphics Pipeline Library Support | Radeon | 2022-08-17 |
| Mesa 22.2-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA3 & Intel Alchemist Primed, Vulkan Additions | Mesa | 2022-08-03 |
| Mesa's Radeon R600g Driver Adds NIR Support For Pre-Evergreen GPUs | Mesa | 2022-08-01 |
| Rewritten R600g NIR Backend Merged For Mesa 22.2 - Improves Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series | Mesa | 2022-07-07 |
| Microsoft's "Dzn" Vulkan-On-D3D12 Adds Working Pipeline Cache | Microsoft | 2022-06-29 |
| Mesa's Lima Gallium3D Driver Lands 4x MSAA Support | Mesa | 2022-06-28 |
| Linux "RADV" Radeon Driver Gets A Big Speed-Up For 16-bit FidelityFX Super Resolution | Radeon | 2022-06-27 |
| Rewritten NIR Code For Old Radeon "R600" Linux Driver Improves Performance In 2022 | Radeon | 2022-06-22 |
| Mesa 22.1.2 Released With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-06-16 |
| More Old GLSL Code Is Gutted From Mesa 22.2 | Mesa | 2022-06-06 |
| Mesa 22.1.1 Released With Many Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-06-01 |
| Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
| Mesa 22.2 Continues Modernizing With More GLSL IR Code Replaced By NIR | Mesa | 2022-05-16 |
| Improved Vulkan Profiling Support For Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver | Raspberry Pi | 2022-05-09 |
| Mesa 22.2 Lands The Big Removal Of Old GLSL-To-TGSI Path, Now Always Going Through NIR | Mesa | 2022-05-05 |
| VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Getting NIR'ed | Mesa | 2022-05-05 |
| Nouveau Switches Over To NIR Backend By Default | Nouveau | 2022-04-30 |
| Open-Source R600g Driver For Old AMD GPUs Is Seeing New Activity To Improve GPU Compute | Radeon | 2022-04-27 |
| Mesa's New OpenCL Stack "Rusticl" Nearing Formal Support For OpenCL 3.0 | Mesa | 2022-04-22 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc2 Released With Many Zink, Intel, AMD Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-04-21 |
| Mesa Prepares To Drop Old GLSL-To-TGSI - Big Code Removal, Win For Performance & Fixes | Mesa | 2022-04-20 |
| R600 Gallium3D Driver For Old Radeon GPUs To See Rewritten NIR Backend | Radeon | 2022-04-15 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Intel IGC 1.0.10713 Adds Ray-Tracing Support | Intel | 2022-03-24 |
| Imagination Tech Publishes Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver For Mesa | Vulkan | 2022-03-04 |
| Mesa's Virgl Preparing To Transition To Using NIR Over TGSI | Virtualization | 2022-02-20 |
| NVIDIA GeForce FX / 6 / 7 Series GPUs Get Notable Open-Source Driver Improvement In 2022 | NVIDIA | 2022-02-16 |
| Etnaviv Strips Out Its TGSI Backend In Favor Of NIR | Mesa | 2022-02-13 |
| Vulkan Ray-Tracing's VK_KHR_ray_query Lands For Intel's Open-Source Linux Driver | Intel | 2022-02-08 |
| NIR Continues Successfully Serving The Needs Of Mesa, Better Suited Than LLVM | Mesa | 2022-01-29 |
| Mesa 21.3.3 Released With Fixes For Old ATI R300~R500 GPUs, RADV Fixes Too | Mesa | 2021-12-29 |
| Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Gallium3D Code Adds Support For OpenGL SSBOs | Microsoft | 2021-12-28 |
| 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 |
| Radeon R300 Driver Lands NIR-To-TGSI Code, Old NVIDIA Driver Eyes It Too | Mesa | 2021-12-10 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Has A Huge Optimization Two Decades Later For ATI R300~R500 GPUs | Mesa | 2021-12-09 |
| Intel Continues Making Preparations For Ray-Tracing With Their Linux Graphics Driver | Intel | 2021-12-05 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Lands Basic Support For "Clover" OpenCL | Mesa | 2021-11-16 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Switches Over To NIR By Default | Mesa | 2021-11-08 |
| Intel Lands Initial Code For Mesh Shaders Within Mesa | Intel | 2021-08-28 |
| Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support | Mesa | 2021-08-17 |
| AMD Drops Pre-Polaris GPU Support From Their Mainline Radeon Software Driver | Radeon | 2021-06-22 |
| Intel i915g Mesa Driver Now Goes Goes Through NIR, Fixes Some Past Test Failures | Intel | 2021-06-18 |
| Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements | Mesa | 2021-05-05 |
| Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features | Mesa | 2021-04-14 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D Flips On OpenGL 4.5 For NIR Backend | Radeon | 2021-03-03 |
| Mesa's R600 Driver Nears Feature Complete NIR Support For Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series | Radeon | 2021-01-20 |
| Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Sparse Memory Support - Will Help Some D3D12 Games | Radeon | 2021-01-11 |
| Another NVIDIA Engineer Just Made His First Contribution To Mesa | NVIDIA | 2021-01-08 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| Microsoft Adds SPIR-V To DXIL Library In Mesa - With A Focus On WebGPU Support | Microsoft | 2020-12-22 |
| Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2020-12-03 |
| Microsoft Begins Landing Changes For Cross-Platform Support With Their Mesa D3D12 Code | Microsoft | 2020-12-02 |
| Airlie: "Why Sharing Code With Windows Isn't Always A Win" | Mesa | 2020-11-11 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Direct3D 12 Gallium3D Driver | Microsoft | 2020-11-10 |
| Intel Lands Vulkan Ray-Tracing Prep Work In Mesa 20.3 | Mesa | 2020-11-06 |
| NIR-To-TGSI Support Added To Mesa 20.3 | Mesa | 2020-10-20 |
| RADV ACO Lands NGG Geometry Shader Support | Mesa | 2020-10-10 |
| Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support | Mesa | 2020-09-29 |
| Mesa 20.3 Can Now Consume SPIR-V Binaries Generated By LLVM's libclc | Microsoft | 2020-09-26 |
| Open-Source Vivante Driver In Some Cases Outperforming Proprietary Driver | Mesa | 2020-09-21 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Adds On-Disk Shader Cache Support | Mesa | 2020-09-18 |
| Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference | X.Org | 2020-09-17 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support Expectations | NVIDIA | 2020-09-15 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Driver - Performance Is Turning Out Better Than Expected | Vulkan | 2020-09-08 |
| Mesa Softpipe Set To See Better Performance, Introducing New NIR-To-TGSI Path | Mesa | 2020-08-26 |
| Microsoft Doubles Their Commits To Mesa This Week | Microsoft | 2020-08-18 |
| 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 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel Support In Mesa 20.3 | Intel | 2020-08-12 |
| R600 Gallium3D Now Has Compute Shaders Working With NIR | Radeon | 2020-08-10 |
| Mesa 20.2 Development Ends After Many New Features Land | Mesa | 2020-08-06 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D NIR Backend Continues Advancing | Radeon | 2020-07-20 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Enables Working FP16 Support | Mesa | 2020-07-18 |
| RADV ACO SMEM Patches Land - Taking ACO To Feature Parity With AMDGPU LLVM | Mesa | 2020-06-24 |
| Mesa 20.0.8 Released To End Out The Series | Mesa | 2020-06-12 |
| Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For NVIDIA Volta / Turing GPUs | Nouveau | 2020-06-09 |
| Mesa 20.1 Released With Numerous Linux Graphics Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2020-05-27 |
| Mesa 20.1 Features Include Big Improvements For Open-Source Intel, Radeon Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2020-05-27 |
| Mesa 20.1-RC3 Released With Another Week Worth Of Fixes Plus Intel Rocket Lake Support | Mesa | 2020-05-14 |
| Mesa 20.2 Picks Up A New Disk Cache: TGSI-To-NIR Caching | Mesa | 2020-05-13 |
| R600 Gallium3D Driver Lands Tesselation Support In Time For Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-04-28 |
| Mesa 20.0.5 Released With The Latest Batch Of Intel/AMD Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2020-04-22 |
| NIR Vectorization Lands In Mesa 20.1 For Big Intel Graphics Performance Boost | Mesa | 2020-04-03 |
| Mesa 20.0.3 Released With Latest Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2020-04-02 |
| Intel NIR I/O Vectorization Ported From The AMD ACO Back-End - ~10% Performance Boost | Intel | 2020-03-29 |
| Radeon OpenGL Driver Lands Experimental Option To Boost Performance For CAD Software | Radeon | 2020-03-26 |
| Microsoft + Collabora Working To Map OpenGL/OpenCL Over DirectX 12 | Microsoft | 2020-03-24 |
| Mesa 20.1 Sees Big Optimizations To Its Soft FP64 Implementation | Mesa | 2020-03-19 |
| LLVMpipe Tessellation Shader Support Is Now Working - Runs Unigine Heaven | Mesa | 2020-02-28 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-02-10 |
| Mesa 20.0-RC2 Brings Many Intel Vulkan + OpenGL Gallium3D Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2020-02-07 |
| Intel's Linux Graphics Stack Is Close To Landing A Code-Generator Generator | Intel | 2020-02-03 |
| Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving | Nouveau | 2020-02-01 |
