Mesa 17.1.4 Brings More Intel Skylake and AMD Radeon Performance Improvements

Mesa developer Andres Gomez is pleased to inform the Linux community about the immediate availability of the fourth maintenance update to the Mesa 17.1 3D Graphics Library for GNU/Linux distributions.

Yes, that's right, Mesa 17.1.4 is now available and it brings a bunch of performance improvements for Intel and AMD Radeon users. This seems to be the biggest update of the series so far, and includes a large number of patches for the Intel i965 OpenGL graphics driver.

These should add proper color interpolation for 3rd generation Intel processors, fix the Broxton 2x6 l3 configuration, improve compatibility with OpenGL 4.1 or later on 7th generation Intel processors, add some corrections to avoid hangings on Intel Haswell CPUs, and allow Intel Skylake CPUs get in-range clear colors.

The Intel ANV Vulkan driver was updated as well with better support for L3 cache programming on In... (read more)

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