Vulkan is a new graphics API in development by the Khronos Group to succeed OpenGL. Vulkan will be supported by all major graphics vendors along with the SPIR-V intermediate representation.

Vulkan Articles & Reviews

AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp   Display Drivers   2026-10-05
The Performance Benefits To Upgrading Mesa With Intel Arc B390 On Ubuntu Linux   Display Drivers   2026-08-06
Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2026-05-28
Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan   Graphics Cards   2026-04-08
AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software   Operating Systems   2026-04-02
Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2026-03-26
NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2026-03-09
Intel Rendering Toolkit & OpenVINO AI GPU Performance On Intel Panther Lake's Xe3 B390   Graphics Cards   2026-03-03
Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime   Graphics Cards   2026-02-16
Dell Pro Max GB10 vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Framework Desktop For Llama.cpp, OpenCL & Vulkan Compute   Computers   2026-01-07
Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV AMD Radeon Vulkan Drivers   Display Drivers   2025-12-25
Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUs   Display Drivers   2025-12-22
The Significant Performance Gains For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing Performance In 2025   Display Drivers   2025-12-16
Intel Arc B580 vs. AMD Radeon RX 9000 vs. NVIDIA RTX 50 Series For Llama.cpp Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2025-12-08
Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025   Display Drivers   2025-12-03
Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2025-11-28
AMD ROCm 7.1 vs. RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp With The Radeon AI PRO R9700   Display Drivers   2025-11-18
AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2   Display Drivers   2025-07-21
Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series   Display Drivers   2025-07-14
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2   Display Drivers   2025-07-11
RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics   Display Drivers   2025-06-27
ROCm GPU Compute Performance With AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo"   Graphics Cards   2025-05-27
Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Performance For The AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series   Display Drivers   2025-03-20
AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2025-01-22
RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024   Display Drivers   2024-07-17
AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux With Breaking Limit   Display Drivers   2024-07-09
Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2023-08-11
RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel   Display Drivers   2023-06-06
AMDVLK vs. Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance On Linux   Display Drivers   2023-06-02
Intel Arc Graphics Show Good Potential For Linux Workstation OpenGL Performance   Graphics Cards   2023-03-24
The Current Intel Arc Graphics Linux Gaming Performance On Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.1-dev   Linux Gaming   2023-03-20
Radeon Gaming/Graphics Performance: Windows 11 vs. Linux GPU Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2022-12-29
Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Performance Ahead Of Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0   Display Drivers   2022-11-30
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Benchmarks Are Very Competitive To Radeon OpenGL Driver   Display Drivers   2022-08-22
Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Continues Outperforming AMDVLK For RDNA2 Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2022-06-28
Total War: WARHAMMER III Linux Performance Across 24 NVIDIA / AMD GPUs   Linux Gaming   2022-06-21
Upgrading Ubuntu 22.04's Kernel & Mesa For Better AMD RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2022-06-01
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Looking Quite Good & Shining With Mesa 22.1   Display Drivers   2022-05-06
Vulkan 1.3 Released With Dynamic Rendering In Core, New Roadmap Guidance For Modern GPUs   Display Drivers   2022-01-25
HITMAN 3 Runs Well On Linux With Steam Play - Open-Source Radeon Performance Especially Good   Linux Gaming   2022-01-24
AMD Radeon Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Performance: 2020 vs. 2021   Display Drivers   2022-01-07
Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Holds A Narrowing Lead Over AMDVLK With Ubuntu 21.10 On Wayland   Display Drivers   2021-12-30
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive   Linux Gaming   2021-12-15
Zink Is Ending 2021 In Fantastic Shape For OpenGL Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-11-30
Intel Tiger Lake Performance Looking Even Better With Ubuntu 21.10   Operating Systems   2021-10-04
Zink Mesa 21.3-dev Benchmarks - Increasingly Capable Of Running OpenGL Games Atop Vulkan   Display Drivers   2021-08-23
AMD RDNA2 Vulkan: RADV vs. RADV+NGGC vs. AMDVLK vs. PRO Driver Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2021-08-17
GeForce RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Linux   Display Drivers   2021-08-13
Radeon RX 6600/6700/6800 XT: RADV vs. PRO Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-08-11
Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Performance For July 2021   Display Drivers   2021-07-23
Linux Gaming Performance With Radeon Vulkan NGG Culling   Display Drivers   2021-07-16
Left 4 Dead 2 Vulkan Performance With Radeon Graphics On Linux   Linux Gaming   2021-06-23
GravityMark OpenGL/Vulkan Performance For NVIDIA RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series   Display Drivers   2021-06-18
NVIDIA Resizable BAR Performance - A Big Boost For Some Linux Games   Display Drivers   2021-06-17
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - Windows vs. Linux GPU Compute Performance   Display Drivers   2021-05-10
Initial Radeon vs. GeForce Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux   Display Drivers   2021-04-20
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series OpenCL / CUDA / OptiX Compute + Rendering Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2021-04-15
Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance   Display Drivers   2021-04-12
Open-Source Radeon Driver Performance Against NVIDIA Linux Gaming For March 2021   Display Drivers   2021-03-11
Updated Portal 2 Vulkan Rendering Code Yielding Great Radeon Results   Linux Gaming   2021-03-02
OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance For Portal 2 With Radeon Linux Graphics   Linux Gaming   2021-02-20
RADV+ACO Look To Your Help For Improving The Vulkan Driver & Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2021-02-09
Mesa 21.0 Has Many New Features Especially For Radeon Open-Source Graphics   Display Drivers   2021-02-04
Radeon RX 6800 Series Linux Performance Nearly Three Months After Launch   Graphics Cards   2021-02-02
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance As Of January 2021   Display Drivers   2021-01-22
Mesa 21.0-devel RADV vs. AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-01-13
A Preliminary Look At Radeon RX 6800 XT Windows Performance vs. Open-Source Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2020-12-10
Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan   Graphics Cards   2020-10-23
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Vulkan Neural Network Performance With NCNN   Display Drivers   2020-09-25
Mesa 20.3 + Linux 5.9 Is In Great Shape Against AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2020-09-14
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Linux 5.9 + Mesa 20.3-devel Radeon Graphics Performance   Linux Gaming   2020-08-25
Radeon RADV+ACO Vulkan Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 20.2   Display Drivers   2020-07-13
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance On Mesa 20.1 Looking Good With RADV+ACO   Display Drivers   2020-05-04
Radeon Software 20.10 vs. Upstream Linux AMD Radeon OpenGL / Vulkan Performance   Display Drivers   2020-04-24
RADV+ACO Outperforming AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Drivers For X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator   Display Drivers   2020-04-15
X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator With Vulkan Performing Very Well On Linux - NVIDIA/AMD OpenGL vs. Vulkan Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2020-04-08
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension   Display Drivers   2020-03-17
Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2020-03-16
Basemark GPU 1.2 Brings Linux Support - Wins For NVIDIA, Woes For Mesa   Display Drivers   2020-03-09
Mesa 20.0 Is Imminent With New Intel OpenGL Default, Intel + RADV Vulkan 1.2, OpenGL 4.6 For RadeonSI   Display Drivers   2020-02-19
Radeon RX 5600 XT With New vBIOS Offering Better Linux Performance Following Fix   Graphics Cards   2020-01-24
Vulkan 1.2 Arrives With An Eye On Greater Performance, Better Compatibility With Other 3D APIs On Top   Display Drivers   2020-01-15
How The Radeon RX 5700 XT Navi Linux Performance Has Evolved Since Launch   Display Drivers   2019-12-30
The Performance Advancements Of The Radeon Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Over 2019   Display Drivers   2019-12-22
Mesa 20.0's RADV + ACO Vulkan Driver Now Consistently Beating AMD's AMDVLK Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2019-12-19
Mesa 19.3 Is Introducing A Lot Of Open-Source OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Improvements   Display Drivers   2019-12-10
RADV's ACO Back-End Is Helping Radeon Navi Linux Gaming Performance   Display Drivers   2019-11-22
23-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Shadow of the Tomb Raider On Linux   Linux Gaming   2019-11-18
Zink Benchmarks - Mesa OpenGL Running Over Vulkan   Display Drivers   2019-11-17
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux Performance On The Dell Ice Lake Laptop   Operating Systems   2019-11-10
Intel Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake Linux Performance Benchmarks   Processors   2019-10-22
Windows 10 vs. Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Performance With Intel Icelake Iris Plus Graphics   Display Drivers   2019-10-15
Radeon RADV "ACO" Performance On Mesa 19.3 Looking Good   Display Drivers   2019-10-05
NVIDIA RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER Linux Gaming Performance - 26 GPUs Benchmarked   Graphics Cards   2019-09-26
Intel Core i9 9900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-08-29
Benchmarking Valve's RADV+ACO Yields Fastest Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2019-07-08
The Latest Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Radeon Performance Against NVIDIA With Mid-Range GPUs   Display Drivers   2019-06-21
AMDVLK Still Has Some Performance Advantages Over Mesa's Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver, But It's A Good Fight   Display Drivers   2019-05-30
Mesa 19.1's New Features From The Intel Gallium3D Driver To New Drivers & Vulkan Optimizations   Software   2019-05-28
Intel's Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Seeing Minor Performance Gains With Mesa 19.1   Display Drivers   2019-05-26
GeForce GTX 650 vs. GTX 1650 Performance For Linux Gaming, Performance-Per-Watt   Graphics Cards   2019-05-15
Radeon RX 560/570/580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060/1650/1660 Linux Gaming Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-05-06
LG's 4K FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync Display For Just $219 USD   Computers   2019-05-01
AMDVLK vs. RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance For Linux Gaming On Ubuntu 19.04   Display Drivers   2019-04-11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Linux Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2019-03-20
AMDGPU vs. Radeon Kernel Driver Performance On Linux 5.0 For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Computers   2019-03-07
A Final Look At The OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance For Talos Principle   Linux Gaming   2019-02-26
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Linux Gaming Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2019-02-25
AMD Radeon VII Linux Benchmarks - Powerful Open-Source Graphics For Compute & Gaming   Graphics Cards   2019-02-07
Radeon ROCm 2.0 OpenCL Benchmarks With Linux 5.0 On Ubuntu 18.10 vs. NVIDIA's Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2019-01-30
The AMD Radeon RX Vega Launch Performance Compared To 2019 Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2019-01-24
Mesa 18.2 vs. 18.3 vs. 19.0 January Benchmarks For RadeonSI/RADV   Display Drivers   2019-01-21
Mesa 19.0 RADV vs. AMDVLK 2019.Q1.2 vs. Radeon Software 18.50 Linux Vulkan Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-01-17
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760/960/1060 / RTX 2060 Linux Gaming & Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-01-15
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Linux Performance From Gaming To TensorFlow & Compute   Graphics Cards   2019-01-08
NVIDIA's Linux Driver Saw Some Nice Performance Gains In 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-29
The GPU Compute Performance From The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To TITAN RTX   Graphics Cards   2018-12-25
Initial Linux Benchmarks Of The NVIDIA TITAN RTX Graphics Card For Compute & Gaming   Graphics Cards   2018-12-22
RadeonSI Gallium3D Made Some More OpenGL Performance Gains This Year   Display Drivers   2018-12-21
The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018   Display Drivers   2018-12-20
AMD Radeon RX 590 Linux Benchmarks, 18-Way NVIDIA/AMD Gaming Comparison   Graphics Cards   2018-12-07
Radeon Vulkan Driver Benchmarks: AMDVLK 2018.4.2 vs. AMDGPU-PRO 18.40 vs. Mesa 18.2/19.0   Display Drivers   2018-11-25
AMDGPU+RADV Linux Gaming On GCN 1.0/1.1, 25-Way Warhammer II GPU Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2018-11-24
NVIDIA & AMD Linux Gaming Performance For Total War: Warhammer II At 1080p / 1440p / 4K   Linux Gaming   2018-11-22
20-Way AMD / NVIDIA Linux Gaming Benchmarks For The 2018 Holidays   Linux Gaming   2018-11-18
16-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Valve's Steam Play For Windows Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-11-06
RADV vs. AMDVLK vs. Radeon Software Vulkan Driver Performance - October 2018 Linux Gaming   Display Drivers   2018-10-04
12-Way Intel / AMD Integrated Graphics Linux Tests On Ubuntu 18.10   Display Drivers   2018-09-28
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To RTX 2080 Ti Graphics/Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2018-09-20
Initial NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Linux Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2018-09-19
September 2018 Drivers: The Current Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt From NVIDIA Kepler To Pascal vs. AMD   Display Drivers   2018-09-11
The Tighter NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Battle With 396.54 + Mesa 18.3-dev Drivers   Display Drivers   2018-08-28
AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Pro/Open vs. Upstream Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Radeon Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-08-23
A Fresh Look At The NVIDIA vs. Radeon Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt For August 2018   Linux Gaming   2018-08-20
SIGGRAPH 2018: OpenCL-Next Taking Shape, Vulkan Continues Evolving   Software   2018-08-13
20-Way NVIDIA/AMD Vulkan Linux Gaming Performance Comparison   Linux Gaming   2018-07-26
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Linux Games   Linux Gaming   2018-07-14
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux With OpenGL/Vulkan On GTX 1060/1080 Ti & RX 580/Vega 64   Display Drivers   2018-06-28
Radeon Software 18.20 vs. Mesa 18.2 RadeonSI/RADV Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-06-26
Core i7 8700K vs. Ryzen 7 2700X For Vulkan Gaming With Thrones of Britannia   Linux Gaming   2018-06-11
25-Way NVIDIA/AMD Linux Graphics Comparison For Vulkan-Powered Thrones Of Britannia   Linux Gaming   2018-06-10
NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux GPU Performance For THRONES OF BRITANNIA   Linux Gaming   2018-06-07
macOS 10.13 vs. Windows 10 vs. Clear/Fedora/openSUSE/Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2018-06-06
Dota 2 Vulkan Performance Across MacOS, Windows 10 & Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-06-05
Clear Linux Now Offers Radeon Mesa Graphics Support, Yields Speed Advantage In Some Tests   Operating Systems   2018-06-02
Ryzen 7 2700 / Ryzen 7 2700X / Core i7 8700K Linux Gaming Performance With RX Vega 64, GTX 1080 Ti   Linux Gaming   2018-05-21
RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2018-05-08
Radeon Software 18.10 vs. Mesa 18.2 RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2018-05-03
Core i7 8700K vs. Ryzen 7 2700X With Rise of The Tomb Raider On Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-04-26
20-Way NVIDIA GeForce / AMD Radeon GPU Comparison For Rise of The Tomb Raider On Vulkan/Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-04-19

Vulkan Linux & Open-Source News

Vulkan API Improvements Coming For The AMD Polaris GPUs With Mesa RADV   Radeon   2026-10-06
Blender 6.0 May End Up Removing OpenGL Support   Free Software   2026-10-06
YSERVER 1.7 Rust X11 Server Narrows Memory Usage Difference With X.Org Server   X.Org   2026-10-06
The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux   Radeon   2026-10-03
KosmicKrisp Now Conformant To Vulkan 1.4, Improving Performance Against Apple's Metal   Vulkan   2026-10-03
Wine 11.19 Released With Wayland Color Management For Vulkan, DNS Query Caching   WINE   2026-10-02
Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans   Mesa   2026-10-02
Intel Iris Open-Source Driver Now Supports Efficient 64-bit Addressing Mode   Intel   2026-10-02
Apex Compute Developing Open-Source Mesa Vulkan Driver For Their Hardware   Mesa   2026-10-02
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix   Phoronix   2026-10-01
Qualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers   Hardware   2026-10-01
Valve's Work On Foveated Rendering For The Open-Source Turnip Driver On The Steam Frame   Valve   2026-09-30
More AI In Open-Source, CachyOS, Ryzen AI Halo, Framework Laptop 13 Pro & Other Q3 Hits   Phoronix   2026-09-30
Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading, StyleKit In Experimental Form   Qt   2026-09-30
D7VK Reaches Maturity For Older Direct3D APIs Atop Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2026-09-29
"Shiva" Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D   Mesa   2026-09-28
NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls   NVIDIA   2026-09-28
ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games   Operating Systems   2026-09-24
Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan   AI   2026-09-23
Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics   Intel   2026-09-23
Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Shows A Few Improvements With AMD Strix Halo   AMD   2026-09-22
SPEC Releases SPECviewperf 15.0.1 For Linux   Hardware   2026-09-22
Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming   Valve   2026-09-21
Vulkan 1.4.363 Released With New VK_INTEL_device_info Extension   Vulkan   2026-09-20
Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan   Valve   2026-09-18
Mesa 26.2.3 Released With AMD GFX1171 Support, Other Fixes   Mesa   2026-09-16
Firefox 156 Available With Its Built-In PDF Viewer Starting Up To 45% Faster   Mozilla   2026-09-14
Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code   Mesa   2026-09-11
Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs   Radeon   2026-09-10
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope   Nouveau   2026-09-10
NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements   NVIDIA   2026-09-09
Experimental Patches Get Nouveau+NVK Working On NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10   Nouveau   2026-09-09
YSERVER 1.5 Released With Reverse PRIME Support & Other New Features   X.Org   2026-09-09
DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play   NVIDIA   2026-09-08
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support   KDE   2026-09-08
LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default   LLVM   2026-09-06
Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation   WINE   2026-09-04
XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More   X.Org   2026-09-04
Mesa 26.3 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P's New 64-bit GPU Mode   Intel   2026-09-04
Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve   Vulkan   2026-09-04
Lemonade 11.9 Local AI Server Released With Super Exciting AMD ROCm HRX Backend   AMD   2026-09-02
Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake Graphics By Default   Mesa   2026-09-02
The Linux Kernel AI Flood, Linux 7.2 Release & Other August Highlights   Phoronix   2026-09-01
A Faster Merge Sort For Mesa 26.3 Vulkan Drivers To Benefit Ray-Tracing   Mesa   2026-08-31
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.18 Ships More Fixes, Chrome/Chromium Decode On Direct Backend   NVIDIA   2026-08-31
Linux 7.3-rc1 With AMD Zen 6 Additions, Better Btrfs Performance & 2026 Steam Controller   Linux Kernel   2026-08-30
NVIDIA Vulkan Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" Merged To FFmpeg   Multimedia   2026-08-30
DXVK 3.1 Released With DXGI Incremental Presentation, D3D11 Buffer Render Targets   Valve   2026-08-28
Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension   Vulkan   2026-08-28
Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding   Intel   2026-08-27
VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine   WINE   2026-08-24
Linux 7.3 Delivers Graphics Driver Improvements From Old GPUs To Next-Gen Hardware   Linux Kernel   2026-08-23
NVK Vulkan Video Merged For Mesa 26.3   Nouveau   2026-08-22
Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable   Intel   2026-08-20
Mesa 26.2.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes   Mesa   2026-08-20
Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK   Intel   2026-08-18
FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations   Multimedia   2026-08-17
Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO   Radeon   2026-08-15
Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3 Hardware   Mesa   2026-08-15
D7VK 2.1 Brings Faster Load Times, More Performance Tweaks   Vulkan   2026-08-14
Features Coming For Linux 7.3 From Optimizing Intel Hybrid CPUs To Old AMD Athlon XPs   Linux Kernel   2026-08-14
Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs   Intel   2026-08-12
AI Helped Create A DirectX 11 Driver For QEMU VMs   Virtualization   2026-08-08
Vulkan 1.4.359 Expands Cooperative Matrix Capabilities   Vulkan   2026-08-07
Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2026-08-05
FFmpeg 9.0 Released With More Vulkan Acceleration, Animated WebP & More AMD AMF   Multimedia   2026-08-03
NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes   NVIDIA   2026-08-03
Ubuntu Touch Making Progress Toward Ubuntu 26.04, Vulkan & App Updates   Ubuntu   2026-08-02
MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights   Phoronix   2026-08-01
Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default   Nouveau   2026-07-31
Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC   Nouveau   2026-07-31
Vulkan 1.4.358 Released With New Image Tiling Control Extension   Vulkan   2026-07-31
Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2026-07-30
DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve   Radeon   2026-07-29
Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows   Radeon   2026-07-29
Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon   X.Org   2026-07-29
Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3   Free Software   2026-07-24
SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support   Linux Gaming   2026-07-22
AMD Talks Up The Great Opportunities Of SPIR-V IR With ROCm   AMD   2026-07-20
Firefox 153 Available With Support For Vulkan Video Decoding, Experimental JPEG-XL   Mozilla   2026-07-20
NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver   Nouveau   2026-07-18
D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More   Linux Gaming   2026-07-18
DXVK 3.0.2 Released With Improved Hang Debugging, Handful Of Game Fixes   Valve   2026-07-17
Mozilla AI Releases Llamafile 0.10.4 With New Transcribefile Built On Transcribe.cpp   Mozilla   2026-07-17
Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520   Hardware   2026-07-16
Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack   Mesa   2026-07-15
Vocalinux 0.14 Beta Released For Offline Voice Dictation / Speech-To-Text On Linux   Desktop   2026-07-15
Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4   Mesa   2026-07-15
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding   Intel   2026-07-14
Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes   Wayland   2026-07-14
HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit   Intel   2026-07-10
Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode Now Working For Intel Alchemist GPUs On Linux   Intel   2026-07-06
Marek Olšák At Valve Lands RADV Code That Can "Double Performance" With Some VRS Cases   Radeon   2026-07-06
D7VK's Performance Gains Since Its Inception For Older Direct3D Versions On Linux   Linux Gaming   2026-07-06
KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL   KDE   2026-07-04
Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP's Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning   Vulkan   2026-07-03
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder   Multimedia   2026-07-02
RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs   Radeon   2026-07-01
Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode   Apple   2026-07-01
Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights   Phoronix   2026-07-01
Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2   Phoronix   2026-06-30
AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, Improvements For Old GPUs & Other AMD Linux Highlights In Q2   AMD   2026-06-30
RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default   Radeon   2026-06-29
USB4STREAM, Optimizations, Jay & Other Popular Intel Linux News From This Quarter   Intel   2026-06-28
Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning   Wayland   2026-06-27
Shotcut 26.6 Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Display On Linux   Multimedia   2026-06-26
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Enables Descriptor Heaps By Default   Intel   2026-06-26
DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default   Linux Gaming   2026-06-25
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers   Mesa   2026-06-22
Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement   Radeon   2026-06-21
Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland   Mesa   2026-06-21
Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Now Supports DLSS   Mesa   2026-06-19
Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes   Wayland   2026-06-16
Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI   Mozilla   2026-06-15
Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream   WINE   2026-06-13
Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses   Qt   2026-06-12
Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics   Radeon   2026-06-11
AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support   AMD   2026-06-10
RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching   Radeon   2026-06-10
Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline   Hardware   2026-06-09
Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding   Mozilla   2026-06-07
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode   Mesa   2026-06-07
Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver   Valve   2026-06-06
Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language   Vulkan   2026-06-06
Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions   Vulkan   2026-06-05
Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT   Radeon   2026-06-04
Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support   Linux Gaming   2026-06-04
New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers   Mesa   2026-06-03
Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver   Radeon   2026-06-02
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support   Nouveau   2026-06-02
Shotcut 26.6 Beta Brings Many Fixes, OpenFX & VST2 Plugin Support   Multimedia   2026-06-02
Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark   WINE   2026-05-31
Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility   WINE   2026-05-29
Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support   Radeon   2026-05-29
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes   KDE   2026-05-28
KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics   Mesa   2026-05-28
Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2026-05-27
VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support   Valve   2026-05-27
Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland   Wayland   2026-05-26
NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API   NVIDIA   2026-05-26
Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features   Wayland   2026-05-25
Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols   Wayland   2026-05-25
RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma   Radeon   2026-05-25
VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan   WINE   2026-05-21
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video   Multimedia   2026-05-20
Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux   Linux Gaming   2026-05-17
FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration   Multimedia   2026-05-17
Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK_NV_cooperative_matrix_decode_vector   Vulkan   2026-05-15
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules   KDE   2026-05-14
Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers   Radeon   2026-05-13