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AMD RadeonSI HD 7000 Gallium3D Still Being Raised

phoronix.com: While the Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" series is nearly six-months old, the open-source support for these new "GCN" graphics cards remains largely unusable...

AMD Releases New gDEBugger For Linux

phoronix.com: AMD has brought back the gDEBugger software to Linux...

AMD Catalyst 12.4 Linux Graphics Driver Released

phoronix.com: Yesterday while the Phoronix server infrastructure was being hammered by the exclusive Valve Linux work, AMD released their Catalyst 12.4 Linux driver...

AMD R600/R700 Gallium3D Confirms GLSL 1.30

phoronix.com: Just one day after the Radeon HD 5000 series on Gallium3D gained GLSL 1.30 compliance by default, the R600 (Radeon HD 2000/3000 series) and R700 (Radeon HD 4000 series) now have GL Shading Language 1.30 support advertised by default...

AMD Evergreen Gallium3D Officially Does GLSL 1.30

phoronix.com: The AMD Radeon HD 5000 "Evergreen" graphics cards, which at the hardware level is capable of OpenGL 4.2 / GLSL 4.20, is finally advertising GLSL 1.30 compliance by default with the Mesa Gallium3D "R600g" driver. GLSL 1.30 is the GL Shading Language revision introduced at the time of OpenGL 3.0...

AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support

phoronix.com: In what will certainly be controversial and disappointing to some Radeon Linux desktop users, AMD will soon announce that they will effectively be discontinuing support for several Radeon product families from their proprietary Catalyst driver. After that point, for future Linux distribution updates, the open-source Radeon Linux driver will be your only option for accelerated graphics.

AMD Fusion On Gallium3D Leaves A Lot To Be Desired

phoronix.com: It's been a few months since last running any AMD Fusion tests under Linux, so here's a look at the AMD A8-3870K "Llano" APU performance under both the latest Catalyst driver and the open-source Radeon Gallium3D stack with Ubuntu 12.04. Besides the open-source driver being handily beaten by the Catalyst binary driver, the power efficiency is also a disappointment.

AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series Gallium3D Merged

phoronix.com: Even if you're not a NVIDIA graphics customer and not interested in the state of the Nouveau driver and its big advancements today, there still is some Mesa Gallium3D news of importance to share. AMD has merged their Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" Gallium3D driver to mainline...

GCC 4.7 Compiler Performance On AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer

phoronix.com: While we have seen that Intel's Sandy Bridge is doing well on the new GCC 4.7 compiler, has AMD's Bulldozer CPU architecture advanced at all for this leading multi-platform compiler? Up today are benchmarks of GCC 4.7.0 -- with comparative benchmarks going back to GCC 4.4 -- from an AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core Bulldozer setup.

AMD Finally Publishes New Gallium3D Driver (RadeonSI)

phoronix.com: AMD has finally made public its new Gallium3D driver, which is called "RadeonSI" and provides the user-space acceleration support for their latest-generation AMD Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" graphics cards under Linux...

AMD Radeon HD 7950 On Linux Redux

phoronix.com: Here are some updated benchmarks of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 "Southern Islands" graphics card under Linux with the proprietary Catalyst driver.

AMD Catalyst 12.3 For Linux Officially Released

phoronix.com: AMD has officially released Catalyst 12.3 for Linux as its March 2012 update for those relying upon this binary graphics driver...