Radeon Linux News Today

With a few weeks having passed since the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release along with some point releases for addressing initial fall-out, I've been meaning to run some Plasma 6.0 Linux gaming performance benchmarks.

With the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation continuing to prove itself robust and as performant as native hardware OpenGL drivers, the Mesa developers continue exploring new opportunities for it

As yet another open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver change ahead of the upcoming Mesa 23.3 code branching and feature freeze is Vulkan VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix support with the RADV driver for RDNA3 hardware and newer using the GPU's Wavefront Mixed-precision Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) functionality.

AMD has officially brought ROCm to Radeon RX 7000 & Radeon PRO W7000 GPUs with the latest Linux driver release.

In case you missed any of the Phoronix articles in May due to holidays or other factors, here is a look back at the most popular open-source and Linux content among the 239 original articles published on Phoronix during the past month.

Due to the constantly evolving state of the open-source Linux graphics drivers in particular, here is a fresh look at an assortment of AMD Radeon GPUs making use of the Mesa 23.2 development code for the newest RadeonSI and RADV drivers paired with the recently released Linux 6.3 kernel.

A pending change to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' is leading to much lower system RAM use for some games that make use of many Vulkan Graphics Pipeline Libraries (GPL)

Valve is funding more research into open-source Radeon Linux GPU drivers for its new Steam Deck handheld, Linux gamers rejoice!

Here's everything we know about upcoming Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards built on AMD's new microarchitecture