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Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Highlights of Mesa 26.0 include KosmicKrisp, a new Vulkan to Metal layered driver for macOS, significant raytracing performance improvements to the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, and support for ACO by default for the RadeonSI driver for better GPU performance and better compile times.
RADV also received support for new Vulkan extensions, including VK_KHR_maintenance10, VK_EXT_shader_uniform_buffer_unsized_array, VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion, and VK_EXT_custom_resolve, while the ANV Intel Vulkan driver received support for VK_KHR_maintenance10 and VK_EXT_shader_uniform_buffer_unsized_array.
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Mesa 26.0 is out bringing ray tracing performance improvements for AMD RADV | GamingOnLinux
Mesa 26.0 has arrived as the latest new-feature release of open source graphics drivers, and there's a whole lot to be excited about in this one. For AMD GPU owners especially, as the RADV driver had a number of ray tracing performance improvements.
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Linux Gamers on Radeon Graphics Get Ray Tracing Performance Boost in Mesa 26.0.0 Update
Mesa 26.0.0, the latest update to the open-source Linux graphics driver stack, has officially been released, and the new release promises a number of improvements to stability and performance, especially for gamers on AMD Radeon GPUs via Vulkan ray tracing in the RADV driver. There has also been done to the open-source NVK driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Intel Iris and ANV drivers, and support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics for Snapdragon X2 SoCs has been added. In a recent blog post ahead of the official driver release, Natalie Vock, a developer working on Mesa, explained the more technical aspects of the update and their implications.
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Video Cardz ☛ Mesa 26.0 Brings Ray Tracing Updates for AMD Radeon on Linux
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Mesa 26.0 Rolls Out, Bringing Major Vulkan And Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon GPUs On Linux
Mesa, which is the foundational open-source graphics library for hardware acceleration on Linux systems, has hit its next major milestone with the release of Mesa 26.0. With the release of Mesa 26.0, significant performance improvements, API support expansions, and driver improvements for Linux can be expected on platforms that rely on Mesa's OpenGL, Vulkan, and Gallium3D implementations.
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Mesa 26.0: RADV catapults Radeon ray tracing forward on Linux | igor´sLAB
With Mesa 26.0, the free Linux graphics stack is experiencing one of the biggest ray tracing upgrades in recent years. Anyone running a Radeon based on RDNA 3, RDNA 3.5, or RDNA 4 and using the Vulkan driver RADV will see dramatic performance gains in some cases – without the need for new hardware. This is not marketing speak, but a clear shift in the performance landscape.
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