Mesa 13.0.1 to Add Up to 30% Performance Increase for Intel ANV Vulkan Driver

Today, November 11, 2016, Collabora's Emil Velikov announced the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) development snapshot of the upcoming first point release of the Mesa 13.0.0 3D Graphics Library.

On the first day of November, we reported on the release of the massive Mesa 13.0.0 3D Graphics Library, which introduced a large number of new features and improvements, among which we can mention the long anticipated OpenGL 4.4 and OpenGL 4.5 capability, the new Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) for supported AMD Radeon GPUs by the AMDGPU kernel driver, as well as OpenGL ES 3.2 support for Intel Skylake or later.

There are many great features in the Mesa 13.0.0 3D Graphics Library, but there's room for improvements. For example, the OpenGL 4.4/4.5 support could not have been displayed properly on some Linux systems ... (read more)

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