Sea Islands Articles & Reviews |
| Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUs | Display Drivers | 2025-12-22 |
| AMDGPU vs. Radeon Kernel Driver Performance On Linux 5.0 For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs | Computers | 2019-03-07 |
| AMDGPU+RADV Linux Gaming On GCN 1.0/1.1, 25-Way Warhammer II GPU Benchmarks | Linux Gaming | 2018-11-24 |
| AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM Driver Performance On Linux 4.15 | Display Drivers | 2017-12-21 |
| AMDGPU vs. Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 Benchmarks With Linux 4.10 | Display Drivers | 2017-01-03 |
| Catalyst vs. AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM On A R9 290: Experimental AMDGPU Can Be Faster | Display Drivers | 2016-01-29 |
Sea Islands Linux & Open-Source News |
| Linux 7.1 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Merged With Intel & AMD Leading The Way | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-20 |
| Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux | Radeon | 2026-04-19 |
| AMD & Valve Deliver Better Kaveri / Kabini APU Experience With Upcoming Linux 7.1 | AMD | 2026-04-05 |
| AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs | Radeon | 2026-04-03 |
| AMD DCN 4.2 IP, GFX 12.1 Updates For AMDGPU Driver In Linux 7.1 Plus GCN 1.1 APU DC | Radeon | 2026-03-05 |
| Yet Another Fix Coming For Older AMD GPUs On Linux - Thanks To Valve Developer | Radeon | 2026-02-22 |
| Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic | Radeon | 2026-01-29 |
| DragonFlyBSD Now Allows Optional AMD GCN 1.1 Support In AMDGPU Driver | BSD | 2026-01-20 |
| New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs | Radeon | 2026-01-19 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights | Phoronix | 2026-01-02 |
| Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1 | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-04 |
| Features Expected For Linux 6.19: ASUS Armoury, Many Intel Bits, AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Enhanced | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-30 |
| AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs Will Default To AMDGPU Driver In Linux 6.19, SMART POWER OLED Added | Radeon | 2025-11-14 |
| Valve's Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver "Love Song For Gamers With Old GPUs" | Valve | 2025-11-12 |
| Patches Proposed For Radeon GCN 1.1 GPUs To Use AMDGPU Linux Driver By Default | Radeon | 2025-11-10 |
| Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs | Valve | 2025-07-23 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds Sparse Texture Support For GFX9/Vega & Newer | Mesa | 2021-12-30 |
| AMD Radeon Graphics Driver "AMDGPU" Ported To DragonFlyBSD | Radeon | 2021-11-03 |
| Mageia 8 RC1 Brings AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1, NVIDIA GLVND, Linux 5.10 LTS | Operating Systems | 2021-02-07 |
| AMD Has Some Last Minute Updates For The AMDGPU Driver In Linux 5.11 | Radeon | 2020-12-10 |
| AMD Sends In Green Sardine Support For Linux 5.10, Hawaii BACO Reset | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-04 |
| AMD Sends In More Radeon "Navi 2" Updates For Linux 5.10 Kernel | Radeon | 2020-09-04 |
| Defaulting Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs To Better Linux Driver Is Held Up By Analog Outputs | Radeon | 2020-08-04 |
| DC Display Support Continues To Be Worked On For Radeon GCN 1.0 With AMDGPU Driver | Radeon | 2020-07-16 |
| The Experimental GCN 1.0 GPU Support Might Be Dropped From AMDGPU Linux Driver | Radeon | 2019-12-31 |
| The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s | Radeon | 2019-12-18 |
| RADV's ACO Compiler Back-End Now Supported For Older AMD "Sea Islands" GPUs | Radeon | 2019-12-07 |
| AMD Sends In Another Batch Of Feature Changes For Linux 5.5 AMDGPU Driver Code | AMD | 2019-10-26 |
| AMD Linux Driver Bringing BACO Support To Older Sea Islands / Volcanic Islands GPUs | Radeon | 2019-10-11 |
| DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Radeon Graphics Code From The Linux 4.7 Kernel | BSD | 2019-08-25 |
| Stadia, Web Browsers, GNOME 3.32 & Jetson Nano Dominated Linux Interest In March | Phoronix | 2019-04-01 |
| Orbital: A PlayStation 4 Emulator That Is Emulating The PS4's AMD GPU Using Vulkan | Free Software | 2019-03-19 |
| AMD Submits Initial AMDGPU Graphics Driver Improvements Ahead Of Linux 5.1 | Radeon | 2019-01-25 |
| Vega 10 & Newer Getting More Fine-Grained PowerPlay Controls On Linux | AMD | 2019-01-21 |
| FreeSync Support Lands In Linux 4.21 With Other DRM Updates In Christmas Day Merge | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-26 |
| AMD Squeezes In Some Final AMDGPU Changes To DRM-Next For Linux 4.21 | Radeon | 2018-12-13 |
| Coreboot's Flashrom Moves On To Flashing AMD GPUs Up Through Polaris | Coreboot | 2018-10-22 |
| The Biggest Features Of Linux 4.19: Intel/AMD, CoC, 802.11ax, EROFS, GPS & GASKET | Linux Kernel | 2018-10-16 |
| DRM Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 With New VKMS Driver, Intel Icelake Work | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-15 |
| The DRM Changes Coming With The Linux 4.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-25 |
| Initial AMDGPU Driver Changes Submitted For Linux 4.19 | Radeon | 2018-06-21 |
| GCN 1.1 On AMDGPU DRM Driver To Now Default To PowerPlay | Radeon | 2018-06-03 |
| RADV In Mesa 18.1 Git Receiving New Vulkan Extension Work | Radeon | 2018-03-29 |
| RADV Now Exposes Async Compute Support For Southern Islands | Radeon | 2018-02-27 |
| WattMan Support Coming For Radeon Polaris GPUs On Linux | Radeon | 2018-02-08 |
| GPU Voltage Control Support Coming To AMDGPU Driver | Radeon | 2018-01-16 |
| RADV Is Now Effectively Conformant For Vega GPUs With Vulkan 1.0 | Vulkan | 2017-12-29 |
| The Many Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver Advancements Of 2017 | Radeon | 2017-11-30 |
| Linux 4.15 Is A Huge Update For Both AMD CPU & Radeon GPU Owners | AMD | 2017-11-18 |
| AMDGPU DC Pull Request Submitted For Linux 4.15 Kernel - 132,395 Lines Of Code | Radeon | 2017-11-17 |
| DRM Updates Land For Linux 4.15; Torvalds: "There's Something Odd About DRM People" | Linux Kernel | 2017-11-16 |
| Feral Releases F1 2017 For Linux, More Details On The Vulkan Driver Requirements | Linux Gaming | 2017-11-02 |
| RADV Is Now Considered A Vulkan Conformant Driver | Radeon | 2017-10-04 |
| AMD Submits Initial AMDGPU DRM Updates Slated For Linux 4.15 | AMD | 2017-09-26 |
| Early Work Bringing VCE1 Video Encode To AMDGPU DRM | Radeon | 2017-09-08 |
| Work-In-Progress Porting Of GCN 1.0/1.1 UVD To AMDGPU DRM Driver | Radeon | 2017-09-03 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Fixed Up For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Hardware | Radeon | 2017-08-14 |
| Several RADV Radeon Vulkan Fixes Land In Mesa Git | Mesa | 2017-08-07 |
| AMD Developers Discuss Better Switching Of Radeon/AMDGPU CIK Support | Radeon | 2017-04-11 |
| RadeonSI ARB_sparse_buffer Lands For Mesa 17.1 | Mesa | 2017-04-05 |
| ARB_sparse_buffer Support Updated For RadeonSI | Mesa | 2017-03-28 |
| Ten Exciting Features Of The Linux 4.10 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-12 |
| AMDGPU Gets More Power-Related Fixes In Linux 4.11 | Radeon | 2017-02-09 |
| Details On The PS4's Radeon GPU With Linux Driver Modifications | Radeon | 2016-12-28 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Patches To Support Compute Queues | Vulkan | 2016-12-18 |
| RADV Lands More Improvements & Other New Patches Pending | Radeon | 2016-11-24 |
| Mesa Fixes Random GPU Hangs On AMD Hawaii & Fiji GPUs | Mesa | 2016-10-27 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Re-Enables SDMA For Sea Islands, Carrizo | Radeon | 2016-10-26 |
| Here's An Ubuntu/Debian Kernel To Play With AMDGPU On GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs | Radeon | 2016-10-06 |
| AMDGPU SI Winsys Support, Other Radeon Changes Hit Mesa Git | Mesa | 2016-08-26 |
| RadeonSI Performance Improvement For DRI PRIME Offloading | Mesa | 2016-08-18 |
| Some Of The AMDGPU Changes Being Worked On For Linux 4.8 | Radeon | 2016-06-26 |
| The AMDGPU Additions For Linux 4.7 Are Enormous | Radeon | 2016-05-11 |
| RadeonSI's New SDMA Texture Copy Code Lands In Mesa | Mesa | 2016-05-10 |
| Here Is My Linux 4.5-rc3 Kernel Spin With AMDGPU PowerPlay & CIK Enabled | Ubuntu | 2016-02-08 |
| Here Is A Linux 4.5-rc2 Kernel To Play With The New AMDGPU Functionality | Linux Kernel | 2016-02-01 |
| Running The Radeon R7 260X With The Experimental AMDGPU Driver | Radeon | 2016-01-31 |
| Trying To Run The AMDGPU Driver With A Hawaii GPU On Linux 4.5 | Radeon | 2016-01-27 |
| A Linux 4.5-rc1 Kernel With AMDGPU PowerPlay Enabled For Ubuntu Systems | Radeon | 2016-01-25 |
| You Can Help Bring Vulkan Support To Older AMD GCN GPUs | AMD | 2016-01-15 |
| AMD Releases Open-Source VCE 1.0 Support | AMD | 2015-05-12 |
| AMD Releases New "AMDGPU" Linux Kernel Driver & Mesa Support | Radeon | 2015-04-20 |
| AMD's GPU LLVM Backend Gains Support For Assembler & Inline Assembly | AMD | 2015-04-08 |
| Open-Source AMD Linux Developers Already Thinking About API Improvements | AMD | 2014-10-09 |
| The Slides Announcing The New "AMDGPU" Kernel Driver | Radeon | 2014-10-08 |
| AMD Publishes Open-Source Linux HSA Kernel Driver | AMD | 2014-07-10 |
| AMD Has A New Radeon DRM Performance Patch | Radeon | 2014-05-02 |
| Radeon Gallium3D Tiling Turned Back On For "CIK" GPUs | Radeon | 2014-03-11 |
| AMD VCE Encode Engine Code Moves Ahead For Linux 3.15 | Linux Kernel | 2014-02-18 |
| AMD Mainlines Its VCE OpenMAX Support In Gallium3D | AMD | 2014-02-13 |
| AMD Publishes New Code For Open-Source VCE Video Encode | AMD | 2014-02-11 |
| AMD Open-Sources VCE Video Encode Engine Code | AMD | 2014-02-04 |
| The Big RadeonSI Performance Patch To Land In Linux 3.13 | Radeon | 2014-01-01 |
| RadeonSI Performance Patch Sharply Improves Frame-Rates | Radeon | 2013-12-23 |
| Radeon DPM Is Now Working Well For New AMD GPUs | Radeon | 2013-12-20 |
| A Roadmap For FreeBSD Graphics Support | BSD | 2013-12-05 |
| LLVM Clang 3.4 Is On Track To Arrive This Month | LLVM | 2013-12-02 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D CIK Gets 2D Tiling, MSAA | Radeon | 2013-11-20 |
| AMD Hawaii Code Published For X.Org DDX, Mesa | AMD | 2013-11-13 |
| AMD Lands Open-Source "Hawaii" GPU Driver Code | AMD | 2013-11-10 |
| Linux 3.12, Ubuntu Spooked Users This Month | Phoronix | 2013-10-31 |
| Sea Islands Improvements Come To AMD GPU LLVM Back-End | AMD | 2013-10-29 |
| Features Coming For The LLVM 3.4 Compiler Stack | LLVM | 2013-10-27 |
| AMD Releases New 3D/Compute GPU Documentation | AMD | 2013-10-24 |
| Sea Islands Gets AMD R600 LLVM Compute Support | AMD | 2013-10-23 |
| Mesa 9.2.2 Is Now Available | Mesa | 2013-10-19 |
| AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation | AMD | 2013-10-01 |
| Gallium3D OpenCL Is Starting To Show Progress | AMD | 2013-09-26 |
| Stream Out / Transform Feedback Now In RadeonSI | Radeon | 2013-09-12 |
| Recapping The Linux 3.11 Kernel Features | Linux Kernel | 2013-08-31 |
| Linux 3.12 To Support AMD "Berlin" HSA APU | AMD | 2013-08-30 |
| The Most Exciting Linux 3.11 Kernel Features | Linux Kernel | 2013-08-20 |
| AMD's Initial Radeon Driver Changes For Linux 3.12 | Radeon | 2013-08-13 |
| AMD/ATI X.Org Driver Brings New GPU Support | AMD | 2013-08-07 |
| Haswell Perf Doesn't Change Much On Linux 3.11 | Intel | 2013-07-20 |
| Some Of The New Features Coming For Mesa 9.2 | Mesa | 2013-07-13 |
| The New & Best Features Of The Linux 3.11 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2013-07-12 |
| The Extraordinary DRM Pull Request For Linux 3.11 | Linux Kernel | 2013-07-09 |
| Testing Radeon DPM Using Sysfs/Debugfs | Radeon | 2013-07-06 |
| Nouveau Changes Pulled For Linux 3.11 Kernel | Nouveau | 2013-07-01 |
| June Was A Very Diverse Month For Linux Enthusiasts | Phoronix | 2013-06-30 |
| DRM Changes In Linux 3.11 Might Be The Biggest Ever | Linux Kernel | 2013-06-30 |
| AMD Sea Islands Support Comes To Radeon Gallium3D | Radeon | 2013-06-28 |
| Radeon In Linux 3.11 Is Fantastic With PM, Sea Islands | Radeon | 2013-06-28 |
| A New DRM Driver Is Coming To Linux 3.11 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2013-06-27 |
| AMD Has Massive Radeon Patch Set - Power Management! | Radeon | 2013-06-26 |
| AMD Has Open-Source Driver For HD 8000 Series | AMD | 2013-02-04 |
| 2013: A Good Year For Open-Source AMD? | AMD | 2012-05-24 |
