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| RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching | Radeon | 2026-06-10 |
| Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve | Valve | 2026-05-16 |
| RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer | Radeon | 2026-04-21 |
| Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play | Radeon | 2026-04-14 |
| RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension | Mesa | 2026-04-09 |
| RADV Driver Lands Another Optimization: "Missing In RADV For A Very Long Time" | Mesa | 2026-03-16 |
| An Exciting Day With More Performance Optimizations Merged For RADV In Mesa 26.0 | Radeon | 2026-01-20 |
| Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 | Mesa | 2026-01-05 |
| AMD RDNA4 With RADV Now Support New Performance Counters For Better Profiling | Radeon | 2026-01-05 |
| RADV Adds Support For New Performance Counters To Help Game Developers | Radeon | 2025-12-22 |
| Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension | Vulkan | 2025-11-14 |
| RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy) | Radeon | 2025-07-15 |
| Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users | Mesa | 2025-06-07 |
| More Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA4" Open-Source Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.1 | Mesa | 2025-04-16 |
| AMD RDNA4 Paired Context Reg Feature Merged For RADV To Potentially Help Performance | Radeon | 2025-04-14 |
| RADV Lands Workaround For Buggy HiZ/HiS On AMD RDNA4 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-04-08 |
| Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler | Radeon | 2025-03-14 |
| RADV Driver Expands Use Of Performance-Helping DCC Fast Clears On RDNA3 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-02-28 |
| RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-02-17 |
| Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer | Radeon | 2025-02-07 |
| Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough" | Radeon | 2025-01-29 |
| Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Seeing More RDNA4 Work In Recent Days | Mesa | 2025-01-21 |
| In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators | Radeon | 2025-01-17 |
| 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 |
| NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support | Mesa | 2024-12-02 |
| Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs | Radeon | 2024-11-07 |
| Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2 Sample | Radeon | 2024-11-01 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Device Generated Commands Support | Mesa | 2024-10-29 |
| RADV Merges Vulkan Pipeline Binary Support | Mesa | 2024-09-10 |
| Vulkan 1.3.294 Introduces New Pipeline Binary Extension | Vulkan | 2024-08-23 |
| RADV Driver Enables Device Generated Commands Task Shader Support | Radeon | 2024-07-03 |
| VCN5 AV1 Encode & More AMD RDNA4 RADV Support Land In Mesa 24.2 | Radeon | 2024-06-01 |
| Valve's AMD Shader Compiler "ACO" Makes More Preparations For Radeon RDNA4 | Mesa | 2024-05-29 |
| Valve's Linux Graphics Engineers Begin Prepping RADV Driver For AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" | Mesa | 2024-05-16 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1 | Mesa | 2024-04-08 |
| RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs | Mesa | 2024-04-03 |
| RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG | Radeon | 2024-03-06 |
| RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For AMD Phoenix APUs | Radeon | 2024-02-16 |
| Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way | Mesa | 2023-11-27 |
| Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine 4 & 5 | Mesa | 2023-11-15 |
| RADV Adds Knobs To Force Shader Re-Compilation - Helping Games On The Steam Deck | Valve | 2023-11-13 |
| AMDVLK Dropped Vega While Mesa's RADV Is Continuing To Make Vega Faster In 2023 | Radeon | 2023-11-02 |
| RADV Driver Drops NGG Stream-Out Code For RDNA1/RDNA2 GPUs | Radeon | 2023-10-30 |
| RADV Hooks Up Image Compression Control To Workaround Game Bugs | Radeon | 2023-10-27 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Initial Support For GFX11.5 "RDNA3 Refresh" | Radeon | 2023-10-24 |
| Mesa 23.3 Will Enable More Efficient MSAA Anti-Aliasing Use With Radeon RDNA3 GPUs | Mesa | 2023-10-03 |
| Mesa 23.3 Restores DCC With Mipmaps Performance Optimization For AMD RDNA3 GPUs | Valve | 2023-10-01 |
| Valve Still Making RADV Driver Improvements To AMD GCN 1.0 Era Hardware | Radeon | 2023-06-21 |
| Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve | Vulkan | 2023-06-16 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Implements Smooth Lines For Zink | Radeon | 2023-05-22 |
| RADV Adds Support For VK_EXT_tooling_info | Radeon | 2023-05-15 |
| Vulkan 1.3.250 Released With Another New Extension From Valve | Vulkan | 2023-05-04 |
| Valve Lands Another Radeon Vulkan Performance Optimization For An "Upcoming Game" | Radeon | 2023-04-21 |
| RADV Optimized By Valve For An Upcoming Game - Nearly Matching The Windows Performance | Valve | 2023-04-20 |
| RADV Driver Enables Graphics Pipeline Library Support By Default | Mesa | 2023-04-10 |
| RADV Lands Shader Caching For Graphics Pipeline Libraries | Radeon | 2023-04-04 |
| Pending RADV Driver Change Leads To Much Lower System RAM Use For Some Games | Radeon | 2023-03-27 |
| Intel, RADV & NVIDIA Jump On Supporting Vulkan's New VK_KHR_map_memory2 | Vulkan | 2023-03-22 |
| RADV Lands Another Feature For Helping VKD3D-Proton Tier 3 Functionality | Mesa | 2023-03-21 |
| RADV Enables Variable Rate Shading For RDNA3, RadeonSI Lands More Fixes | Radeon | 2023-03-08 |
| RADV Working Toward D3D12 FL 12.2 Support With VKD3D-Proton | Mesa | 2023-02-27 |
| More Of Valve's RADV Optimizations Around Fast-Linking Reach Mesa 23.1 | Mesa | 2023-02-02 |
| RADV Graphics Pipeline Library Support Becoming Speedy, Aims For Mesa 23.1 Promotion | Radeon | 2023-01-29 |
| Valve Fixes RAGE 2 Breaking For Recent Mesa RADV Driver | Mesa | 2023-01-29 |
| RADV Receives Patches To Help With Less Stuttering For Zink | Radeon | 2023-01-20 |
| RADV Lands A Few More Improvements To Reduce CPU Overhead | Radeon | 2023-01-04 |
| Mesa Open-Source 3D Drivers Experienced Record Growth In 2022 | Mesa | 2022-12-29 |
| RADV Lands Dynamic Rasterization Samples & Line Rasterization Mode | Mesa | 2022-12-08 |
| RADV Mesa Driver Lands Several NGG Stream-Out Fixes | Radeon | 2022-11-26 |
| Mesa 22.3 RADV Driver Now Allows Enabling NGG Stream-Out Functionality | Radeon | 2022-11-01 |
| Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands APU Fix For Red Dead Redemption 2 | Radeon | 2022-10-01 |
| More Zink Improvements Arrive For Mesa 22.3, Less Stuttering For RADV | Mesa | 2022-09-13 |
| RADV Ray-Tracing Now Works With AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler | Radeon | 2022-09-09 |
| RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Graphics Pipeline Library Support | Radeon | 2022-08-17 |
| RADV Adds EXT_primitives_generated_query To Help Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan | Radeon | 2022-06-09 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Continues At Full-Speed Preparing For RDNA3/GFX11 GPUs | Radeon | 2022-05-19 |
| Valve Developer Starts Poking At Open-Source "RADV" Driver Support For GFX11/RDNA3 | Radeon | 2022-05-13 |
| Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands Dynamic VRS To Help With Power Savings - Helps The Steam Deck | Radeon | 2022-02-16 |
| Valve Working On Radeon Dynamic VRS For The Steam Deck To Increase Power Savings | Mesa | 2022-01-26 |
| Mesa's RADV Driver Lands Workaround For Flickering Issue With F1 2021 | Linux Gaming | 2022-01-01 |
| Mesa Open-Source GPU Drivers Enjoyed Near-Record Growth In 2021, Valve Dev Top Contributor | Mesa | 2021-12-26 |
| Sparse Mapping Improvements Help Radeon RADV Driver With Some Games | Mesa | 2021-12-16 |
| RADV Driver Improvement Yields More Reasonably Sized Captures For Radeon GPU Profiling | Radeon | 2021-12-02 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Finally Adds VK_KHR_synchronization2 Support | Radeon | 2021-11-27 |
| RADV Lands Fast Clear Improvements, Helping RDNA With VKD3D-Proton | Radeon | 2021-08-10 |
| RADV Lands Another Navi Optimization In Mesa 21.1 To Help With MSAA Performance | Radeon | 2021-03-17 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Enables NGG For AMD VanGogh APUs | Radeon | 2020-11-30 |
| Older Radeon GPUs With RADV Vulkan Driver Now Have Trap Handler For Helping Catch Issues | Radeon | 2020-08-24 |
| RADV Driver Lands Support For Vulkan Extended Dynamic State | Radeon | 2020-07-13 |
| Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For Sienna Cichlid | Mesa | 2020-06-19 |
| Radeon RADV Driver Merge Request Opened To Use ACO By Default | Radeon | 2020-06-15 |
| RADV Picks Up A Performance Boost For id Tech Vulkan-Powered Games On Linux + AMD APUs | Radeon | 2020-04-28 |
| Mesa 20.1's RADV Lands More Performance Improvements For Recent id Tech Games | Linux Gaming | 2020-04-09 |
| RADV SQTT Profiling Support Expanded To Support GFX10/Navi | Radeon | 2020-03-02 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Wiring Up Support For Radeon's SQ Thread Trace Block | Radeon | 2020-02-28 |
| Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Adding Compatibility For Use With The AMD Radeon GPU Profiler | Mesa | 2020-02-21 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Option For Zeroing Out Video Memory | Mesa | 2020-02-20 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Makes A Few More Improvements For GCN 1.0/1.1 Hardware | Radeon | 2020-02-17 |
| Radeon "sisched" Scheduler Is Made Obsolete By RADV's ACO Back-End | Radeon | 2020-02-13 |
| RADV Re-Enables NGG Geometry Shader Support | Mesa | 2020-01-30 |
| 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 |
| RADV Lands VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control For Exposing Wave32 On Navi/GFX10 | Radeon | 2019-11-06 |
| RADV Lands More Fixes + Performance Improvements Into Mesa 19.3 | Radeon | 2019-10-23 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Several GFX10/Navi Fixes, Including To Address Random Hangs | Mesa | 2019-10-03 |
| Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Tackling NGG Stream-Out | Radeon | 2019-09-16 |
| Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wave32 Support For More Shaders | Vulkan | 2019-08-03 |
| Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Navi Wave32 Support For Compute Shaders | Radeon | 2019-07-31 |
| RADV's Navi Support Gets Patches For Vulkan Transform Feedback | Mesa | 2019-07-24 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Manages Launch-Day Support For AMD Navi 10/12/14 GPUs | AMD | 2019-07-07 |
| AMD "GFX8" Hardware Now Has Expanded DCC Support With RADV Vulkan Driver | Radeon | 2019-07-02 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Fixes For Vega M Hardware | Radeon | 2019-06-13 |
| Mesa 19.2 RADV Driver Now Fully Supports EXT_sample_locations For Possible AA Benefits | Mesa | 2019-06-07 |
| Mesa Is About To Crack 2.7 Million Lines | Mesa | 2019-04-29 |
| RADV Driver Tacks On VK_AMD_gpu_shader_half_float Support In Mesa 19.1 | Radeon | 2019-04-10 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Patches For VK_KHR_8bit_storage | Mesa | 2019-03-19 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Memory Budget Information For Mesa 19.0 | Mesa | 2019-01-15 |
| RADV Driver Patches Revive shaderStorageImageMultisample - Useful For DXVK | Mesa | 2018-12-20 |
| Mesa 19.0 RADV Vulkan Driver Gets New Fixes To Help DXVK Gaming | Mesa | 2018-12-13 |
| RADV Lands Another Fast Clear Optimization, Helping An Operation 18x | Radeon | 2018-11-19 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver To Enable Vega Primitive Binning By Default - Helps Performance | Radeon | 2018-11-15 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Transform Feedback For Mesa 18.3 | Mesa | 2018-10-29 |
| DXVK Already Lands Vulkan Transform Feedback Support, RADV Posts Patches | Vulkan | 2018-10-13 |
| Valve Has Been Working On A HUD For The RADV Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2018-09-24 |
| RADV's Iffy 16-bit Integer Support Merged Into Mesa | Mesa | 2018-09-18 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Finally Picking Up 16-Bit Integer Support In Shaders | Radeon | 2018-09-14 |
| RADV Finally Picking Up Support For Conservative Rasterization | Radeon | 2018-09-12 |
| AMD's Marek Olšák Is Dominating Mesa Open-Source GPU Driver Development This Year | Mesa | 2018-09-12 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Minor CPU Overhead Reductions, Conditional Rendering Patches | Radeon | 2018-07-09 |
| VK_KHR_8bit_storage Gets Wired Into Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver, Patches Available | Intel | 2018-07-09 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Should Now Work Much Better With DXVK For Direct3D 11 Wine Gaming | Radeon | 2018-06-09 |
| RADV Gets Fix For DXVK With World of Warcraft & Other Games | Radeon | 2018-05-22 |
| RADV Gets Support For 32-bit GPU Pointers For User SGPRs, Benefiting Performance | Mesa | 2018-05-19 |
| RADV Enables OoO Rasterization By Default For A 1% Gain | Radeon | 2018-05-02 |
| VK_AMD_shader_core_properties Now Supported By RADV | Vulkan | 2018-04-09 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Out-of-Order Rasterization Support, Small Performance Boost | Radeon | 2018-04-04 |
| Valve & RADV Developers Are Topping Contributions To Mesa This Year | Mesa | 2018-04-01 |
| RADV In Mesa 18.1 Git Receiving New Vulkan Extension Work | Radeon | 2018-03-29 |
| AMD Vega 12 GPU Support Lands In Mesa 18.1-devel | Mesa | 2018-03-28 |
| A Valve Linux Developer Managed Another Small Performance Optimization For RADV | Mesa | 2018-03-23 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Improvements Coming For Wolfenstein 2 On Wine | WINE | 2018-02-24 |
| Vega Gets Its Last Fix For Dawn of War III On Linux With Vulkan | Radeon | 2018-02-20 |
| Valve Has Hired Another Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Developer | Valve | 2018-02-08 |
| Mesa Grew By Nearly 250,000 Lines Of Code In 2017 Across 10k Commits | Mesa | 2018-01-02 |
| RADV Has Cleared Out Its F1 2017 Vulkan Driver Bugs | Radeon | 2017-12-19 |
| Remaining RADV Vulkan Driver Bugs for Vega Being Addressed | Vulkan | 2017-12-05 |
| The Top Mesa News Of 2017 | Mesa | 2017-12-03 |
| RADV Will Now Enable "Sisched" For The Talos Principle, Boosting Frame Rates | Radeon | 2017-11-14 |
