shader cache Articles & Reviews |
| Mesa 18.0 Features Include Many OpenGL/Vulkan Improvements, Intel Shader Cache & Extras | Display Drivers | 2018-01-28 |
| Intel's Mesa GLSL Shader Cache Is Speeding Up Game Load Times | Linux Gaming | 2017-11-16 |
| The Grand Features Of Mesa 17.1: Vega, RadeonSI Shader Cache, Maturing Vulkan, New OpenGL Extensions | Display Drivers | 2017-04-21 |
| Radeon Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.1-dev vs. NVIDIA 378.13 Graphics Performance | Display Drivers | 2017-03-08 |
| Linux 4.11-rc1 + Mesa 17.1 Git Tests With AMDGPU+RadeonSI/RADV | Display Drivers | 2017-03-07 |
| RadeonSI's Mesa Shader Cache Can Be A Big Help To Modern Linux Games | Linux Gaming | 2017-03-04 |
shader cache Linux & Open-Source News |
| PanVK Mali Vulkan Driver Lands In-Memory Cache & On-Disk Shader Cache Support | Mesa | 2025-10-27 |
| Mesa Falling Back To Its Multi-File Cache Due To Performance Reasons | Mesa | 2025-04-24 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker | Mesa | 2024-09-25 |
| Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache | Mesa | 2024-08-14 |
| Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-07-19 |
| Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache | Nouveau | 2024-01-09 |
| OBS Studio 30.0 Released With Intel QSV AV1 On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output | Multimedia | 2023-11-11 |
| OBS Studio 30 Beta Brings Intel QSV On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output | Multimedia | 2023-08-17 |
| Mesa 23.1 RADV Change Leads To ~60% Smaller Single File Disk Cache | Mesa | 2023-04-11 |
| Asahi Gallium3D Driver Enables Mesa Shader Disk Cache Support | Apple | 2023-02-04 |
| More Of Valve's RADV Optimizations Around Fast-Linking Reach Mesa 23.1 | Mesa | 2023-02-02 |
| Mesa 23.1 Lands Improvement For Better Handling Steam's Shader Cache | Mesa | 2023-02-01 |
| Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics | Mesa | 2022-11-30 |
| Mesa 22.3-rc2 Released With A Few AMD RDNA3 Fixes, V3DV Fixes For Raspberry Pi | Mesa | 2022-11-09 |
| Steam For Chromebooks Reaches Beta With Initial DX12 Games, AMD C-Series Support | Valve | 2022-11-03 |
| DXVK 1.10.2 Released With Many Game Fixes, Performance Optimizations | Vulkan | 2022-07-13 |
| Intel's ANV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier - Important For VKD3D-Proton | Intel | 2022-07-09 |
| RADV Lands VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier, VKD3D-Proton Prepares Usage | Valve | 2022-07-06 |
| 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 22.1-rc2 Released With Many Zink, Intel, AMD Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-04-21 |
| Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3D" OpenGL Driver Improving Performance With On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2022-03-18 |
| Mesa Shader Cache Environment Variable Controls Renamed | Mesa | 2022-03-17 |
| Lutris 0.5.10 Beta Linux Game Manager Adds New Features | Linux Gaming | 2022-02-12 |
| Steam Will Now Flush Its Stale Shader Cache To Help Save Space | Valve | 2022-02-05 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q4.1 Released As First Code Drop In Over A Month | Radeon | 2021-11-05 |
| Steam Continues Improving Its Shader Pre-Caching Support, Other Beta Improvements | Valve | 2021-10-22 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Sees Reworked Shader Cache So It Actually Works | Mesa | 2021-06-01 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q2.3 Released With CPU Optimization, Faster Shader Compile Times | Radeon | 2021-05-18 |
| Daemon Engine 0.52 Beta Continues Advancing The id Tech 3 Open-Source Code In 2021 | Linux Gaming | 2021-05-11 |
| 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 |
| Mesa 21.1 Wires Up Lima Shader Disk Cache | Mesa | 2021-03-25 |
| Steam Adds Support For The Single-File Mesa Shader Cache | Valve | 2021-03-17 |
| Mesa Lands New Single File Cache To Help Steam's Pre-Compiled Shaders, Space Savings | Mesa | 2021-02-21 |
| Mesa's Lima Driver Finally Implements OpenGL Shader Cache Support | Mesa | 2021-01-17 |
| Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2020-12-03 |
| 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 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Shader Disk Cache Lands For Speeding Up Game Load Times | Nouveau | 2020-08-25 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel Support In Mesa 20.3 | Intel | 2020-08-12 |
| Freedreno Lands On-Disk Shader Cache Support In Mesa 20.2 | Mesa | 2020-06-27 |
| LLVMpipe Gains Support For On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2020-06-10 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Option For Zeroing Out Video Memory | Mesa | 2020-02-20 |
| Nouveau Gallium3D Finally Seeing Mesa Shader Disk Cache For Faster Game Load Times | Nouveau | 2020-02-17 |
| Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving | Nouveau | 2020-02-01 |
| RadeonSI Introduces A Live Shader Cache With Mesa 20.0 | Mesa | 2020-01-25 |
| Mesa 19.2.5 Released With Intel Vulkan + RadeonSI Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2019-11-20 |
| Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3 | Mesa | 2019-10-18 |
| Mesa 19.2 Picks Up The Radeon R300~R500 Series On-Disk OpenGL Shader Cache | Mesa | 2019-06-12 |
| R300 Gallium3D Driver Finally Wired Up For On-Disk Shader Cache | Radeon | 2019-06-10 |
| AMDVLK 2019.Q2.4 Brings Steam Play Game Fixes, New Vulkan Extensions | Radeon | 2019-05-27 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Gets On-Disk Shader Cache Support | Intel | 2019-05-22 |
| DXVK 1.0.3 Released Following The Recalled DXVK 1.1 | Vulkan | 2019-04-15 |
| AMDVLK 2019.Q1.8 Enables Six More Vulkan Extensions, Fixes Bugs | Radeon | 2019-03-15 |
| Mesa 19.0 Can Cut In Half The Amount Of Memory For Team Fortress 2 | Mesa | 2019-01-19 |
| Godot 4.0 Game Engine To Work On Vulkan Port, Big Rendering Improvements | Linux Gaming | 2019-01-14 |
| Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers | Mesa | 2018-12-26 |
| Intel's OpenGL Driver Will Now Make Better Use Of KHR_debug For Shader Debugging | Intel | 2018-12-08 |
| Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SSD - A Great Drive For A Growing Steam Linux Game Collection | Hardware | 2018-11-04 |
| Mesa 18.2.3 Released With Latest Driver Workarounds For Steam Play / Proton | Mesa | 2018-10-19 |
| DXVK Picking Up A Shader Cache To Help Reduce Stuttering, Boost Performance | Vulkan | 2018-09-22 |
| Mesa 18.2 Released With Vega 20 Support, OpenGL 4.4 Compat Profile & A Lot More | Mesa | 2018-09-07 |
| Mesa 18.2 Is Releasing Soon With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2018-08-21 |
| RADV Now Supports On-Demand Compilation Of Built-In Shaders | Radeon | 2018-08-14 |
| Mesa 18.2 Is On The Final Days Of Development With Many New Features Coming | Mesa | 2018-07-26 |
| More Intel ARB_gl_spirv Code Lands In Mesa, But Still Not Ready To Finish Up OpenGL 4.6 | Mesa | 2018-07-03 |
| Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Automatic On-Disk Shader Cache | Intel | 2018-07-02 |
| RadeonSI Compute Shaders Now Supported By The Mesa Shader Cache | Radeon | 2018-06-30 |
| PPSSPP Adds Vulkan On Linux Support | Vulkan | 2018-06-04 |
| Mesa 18.1 Released With Intel Shader Cache Default, OpenGL 3.1 ARB_compatibility | Mesa | 2018-05-18 |
| The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides | Mesa | 2018-05-04 |
| DXVK Now Has An On-Disk Shader Cache | Vulkan | 2018-03-21 |
| RadeonSI NIR Support Is Getting Squared Away, A Call For More Game Testing | Mesa | 2018-02-28 |
| Intel GLSL On-Disk Shader Cache Enabled By Default | Intel | 2018-02-21 |
| RadeonSI Now Offers NIR Shader Cache Support | Radeon | 2018-02-20 |
| Gallium3D Now Supports NIR Shader Disk Cache | Mesa | 2018-02-10 |
| Dead Island Should Now Work With The Gallium3D Drivers | Mesa | 2018-01-17 |
| Mesa Gets Patches For EGL_ANDROID_blob_cache | Mesa | 2018-01-15 |
| The Vulkan Moments Of 2017: More Games, Better Drivers & Continued Open-Source Adoption | Vulkan | 2017-12-27 |
| Mesa 17.3.1 Is Being Prepped With Around Three Dozen Fixes | Mesa | 2017-12-18 |
| Latest Steam Client Update Rolls Out Shader Pre-Caching For OpenGL/Vulkan | Valve | 2017-12-14 |
| ARB_get_program_binary Implementation Lands In Core Mesa, Intel Driver | Mesa | 2017-12-08 |
| Intel Wants You To Help Test The i965 Mesa Shader Cache, Not Yet Enabled By Default | Intel | 2017-12-06 |
| The Top Mesa News Of 2017 | Mesa | 2017-12-03 |
| The Many Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver Advancements Of 2017 | Radeon | 2017-11-30 |
| Steam Client Update Fixes Linux Shortcuts, Adds Vulkan Pre-Compiled Shaders | Valve | 2017-11-07 |
| Intel i965 Mesa Driver Finally Lands Its On-Disk Shader Cache | Intel | 2017-11-01 |
| i965 Shader Cache Revised As It Still Might Squeeze Into Mesa 17.3 | Mesa | 2017-10-22 |
| Intel OpenGL Shader Cache Revised Once More | Intel | 2017-10-19 |
| Another Minor Performance Optimization For RADV | Radeon | 2017-10-12 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Gets An On-Disk Shader Cache | Vulkan | 2017-10-11 |
| Mesa 17.2.1 Released With Restored RADV Vulkan RX Vega Support | Mesa | 2017-09-17 |
| Intel Gets Back To Working On Their OpenGL Shader Cache | Intel | 2017-08-19 |
| Arceri Is Still Working To Improve GLSL Compile Times For Mesa | Mesa | 2017-08-07 |
| Qt 5.9 LTS Released With Its OpenVG Back-End & Much More | Qt | 2017-05-31 |
| Mesa 17.1 Released, Adds RADV Vulkan Conforming Patches | Mesa | 2017-05-10 |
| Mesa 17.1 RC3 Released To Kick Off May | Mesa | 2017-05-01 |
| Mesa 17.1 Will Use A 1GB Shader Cache Limit | Mesa | 2017-04-28 |
| Mesa's Shader Cache Will Now Occupy Less Disk Space | Mesa | 2017-04-27 |
| Mesa 17.1 RC2 Packs In Over A Dozen More Fixes | Mesa | 2017-04-24 |
| Qt 5.9 Beta 2 Now Available For Testing | Qt | 2017-04-21 |
| Today Is The Last Day Of Feature Development For Mesa 17.1 | Mesa | 2017-04-14 |
| Nouveau Gets Patches For OpenGL AZDO ARB_shader_ballot | Nouveau | 2017-04-08 |
| Additional Mesa Shader Cache Optimizations En Route | Mesa | 2017-04-05 |
| Nouveau TGSI Shader Cache Enabled In Mesa 17.1 Git | Mesa | 2017-03-23 |
| An On-Disk Cache Is Coming To The RADV Vulkan Driver | Radeon | 2017-03-15 |
| RADV Now Advertises Vulkan 1.0.42; Shader Cache Thread Queue Lands In Mesa | Mesa | 2017-03-14 |
| Arceri Is Working To Further Improve Mesa's Shader Cache Startup Performance | Mesa | 2017-03-12 |
| Nouveau Patch For Enabling The GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2017-03-11 |
| Mesa 17.1 Expected In Early May, Feature Freeze In One Month | Mesa | 2017-03-09 |
| Timothy Arceri Takes To Revising Mesa OpenGL Threaded Dispatch | Mesa | 2017-03-07 |
| Mesa's Shader Disk Cache Now Enabled By Default | Mesa | 2017-03-05 |
| RadeonSI On-Disk Shader Cache Lands In Mesa Git | Mesa | 2017-03-02 |
| Collabora's Graphics Work So Far In 2017, They Are Working On Soft FP64 For Mesa | X.Org | 2017-03-01 |
| RadeonSI Shader Cache May Be Flipped On By Default | Radeon | 2017-02-23 |
| GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache Lands In Mesa For R600g/RadeonSI | AMD | 2017-02-22 |
| R600/Radeon TGSI Shader Cache Gets Closer To Merging | Mesa | 2017-02-20 |
| A Lot Of The OpenGL Shader Cache Code Has Landed In Mesa | Mesa | 2017-02-17 |
| Valve Has Another Linux Graphics Driver Developer Working On Open-Source AMD | Valve | 2017-02-14 |
| R600/RadeonSI GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache Revised | Mesa | 2017-02-13 |
| Mesa 17.0.0 Officially Released | Mesa | 2017-02-13 |
| TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache For Mesa: Caching Comes To R600g/RadeonSI | Mesa | 2017-02-07 |
| OpenGL Shader Cache Support For RadeonSI Is Making Progress | Mesa | 2017-02-04 |
| Shadow of Mordor Updated For Linux With Performance Improvements | Linux Gaming | 2017-01-26 |
| Timothy Arceri To Tackle RadeonSI OpenGL Shader Caching | Mesa | 2017-01-24 |
| On-Disk Shader Cache Revised For Mesa, Close To Landing | Mesa | 2017-01-23 |
| Mesa 17.0-RC1 Released | Mesa | 2017-01-19 |
| It's Getting Close Whether The OpenGL On-Disk Shader Cache Will Happen For Mesa 17.0 | Mesa | 2017-01-11 |
| VC4 Gallium3D Thread Switching Work, Reviewing On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2017-01-03 |
| GLSL Copy Propagation Optimizations For Mesa | Mesa | 2017-01-02 |
| Mesa Saw More Than 10,000 Commits This Year From Record Number Of Contributors | Mesa | 2016-12-31 |
| 70 Patches Of Cleaning & Bug Fixes For Mesa | Mesa | 2016-12-20 |
| Developers' Planned Changes Still Coming To Mesa 13.1 / Mesa 17.0 | Mesa | 2016-12-02 |
| ARB_gpu_shader_int64 Sounds Like It's Ready For Mesa | Mesa | 2016-11-29 |
| Mesa's On-Disk Shader Cache Revised For The 7th Time | Mesa | 2016-11-29 |
| GTX 1060 vs. RX 480 - The ~$200 GPU Decision For Linux Gamers | Hardware | 2016-11-19 |
| NVIDIA 375.20 Adds X.Org Server 1.19 Support, Stabilizes Other Changes | NVIDIA | 2016-11-18 |
| Testing Deus Ex On Linux With RadeonSI Mesa, AMDGPU-PRO | Linux Gaming | 2016-11-03 |
| Features You Will Not Find In The Mesa 13.0 Release | Mesa | 2016-10-22 |
| Mesa Preps For Landing The On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2016-09-27 |
| The Mesa On-Disk Shader Cache Has Been Revised Again (V5) | Mesa | 2016-09-24 |
| Intel Mesa Soon Having OpenGL 4.5, Collabora To Focus On Performance | Intel | 2016-08-05 |
| Intel's Mesa On-Disk Shader Cache Maturing, Radeon Devs Not Yet Convinced | Mesa | 2016-07-13 |
| The On-Disk Shader Cache For Mesa's Intel Driver Has Been Revived | Mesa | 2016-06-21 |
| An On-Disk Shader Cache Revised For Intel's Mesa Driver | Mesa | 2016-04-29 |
| RadeonSI Quietly Landed A Shader Cache As A Last Feature For Mesa 11.2 | Radeon | 2016-02-23 |
| Mesa's Shader Cache Is In The Process Of Landing | Mesa | 2015-01-16 |
