Graphics
AMD has announced plans to bring its FSR 4.1 graphics upscaling technology to older Radeon graphics cards starting this July. The rollout begins with RDNA 3 and 3.5 based GPUs before expanding further in 2027.
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Online reactions to Nvidia's DLSS 5 announcement have spawned memes redefining the acronym with 'slop' and skepticism mistaking it for an April Fool's prank, despite occurring in March.
Recent benchmarks show Intel's newer Xe driver surpassing the veteran i915 driver in performance on Arc Alchemist GPUs under Linux kernel 6.19. Tests conducted by Phoronix on an Intel Arc A770 reveal significant gains in compute tasks and mixed results in graphics applications. This shift highlights Intel's efforts to enhance open-source graphics support for discrete hardware.
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The open-source Mesa 26.0 graphics driver has received an update to its NVK Vulkan driver, enhancing performance for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 20 series Turing GPUs. This improvement aims to bolster compatibility in Linux environments. Phoronix reports the change as a key advancement in open-source graphics support.
Linux 7.1 adds AMDGPU driver updates for DCN 4.2 and GFX 12.1
Jumamosi, 28. Mwezi wa pili 2026, 23:06:09Verisilicon DC8200 and Coreboot framebuffer drivers submitted for Linux 7.1
Jumapili, 8. Mwezi wa pili 2026, 18:07:10D7VK 1.3 released with Direct3D 5 support on Vulkan
Alhamisi, 5. Mwezi wa pili 2026, 20:09:16Intel Arc B390 graphics benchmarked on Linux with Panther Lake
Jumapili, 1. Mwezi wa pili 2026, 03:54:53Linux 7.0 adds cTGP graphics power setting for Uniwill and TUXEDO laptops
Alhamisi, 18. Mwezi wa kumi na mbili 2025, 15:58:14NVIDIA releases 590.48.01 stable graphics driver for Linux, BSD, and Solaris
Jumapili, 14. Mwezi wa kumi na mbili 2025, 10:13:57CentOS Kmods SIG provides NVIDIA open GPU kernel modules
Alhamisi, 11. Mwezi wa kumi na mbili 2025, 08:23:33D7VK 1.0 released for production-ready Direct3D 7 on Vulkan
Ijumaa, 5. Mwezi wa kumi na mbili 2025, 15:11:02Intel graphics gain key features in Linux 6.19
Alhamisi, 4. Mwezi wa kumi na mbili 2025, 11:39:06Intel Arc B580 GPU achieves 50% performance boost on Linux in 2025