Mesa 23.1 Launches with Free Opengl & Vulkan

Free implementation of the API Opengl and Vulkan, mesa 23.1.0, has been released and is now available for use. The first production of the Mesa 23.1.0 branch has an experimental status, and after code stabilization, a stable version 23.1.1 will be released.

Mesa 23.1 supports the graphic API Vulkan 1.3 in ANV drivers for GPU Intel, RADV for GPU AMD, Tu for GPU Qualcomm, and emulator mode (VN). The Lavapipe (LVP) software rasterizer implements support for Vulkan 1.1, while the V3DV driver for GPU Broadcom Videocore VI from Raspberry Pi 4 has Vulkan 1.0 support.

Moreover, Mesa ensures driver support for full Opengl 4.6 for i965, IRIS (Intel), Radeonsi (AMD), Zink, and Llvmpipe. Opengl 4.5 is available for GPU AMD (R600), NVIDIA (NVC0), and Qualcomm Adreno (Freedreno), Opengl 4.3 for Virgl (Virtual GPU Virgil3D for QMU/KVM), and OpenGL 4.2 for D3D12 driver (MIRE Organization of Opengl work on top of DirectX 12).

Basic tests conducted show Rustical driver with the implementation of the OpenCl 3.0 specification written in the Rust language, supported GPU AMD. In VULKAN-drivers ANV (Intel) and RADV (AMD), there is initial support for expansion vulkan video, which determines the possibilities for hardware acceleration of video decoding.

Radeonsi Opengl Driver and RADV Vulkan drive support GPU AMD based on the RDNA3/GFX11 architecture (Radeon RX 7900). Also, initial support GPU AMD GFX940 (AMD Instinct Mi300) has been added. The Vulkan Driver Radv (AMD) supports the expansion of Graphics Pipeline Library (GPL), ensuring the compilation of four different parts of the graphic conveyors (Pipeline) to accelerate the loading of the conveyor in applications that re-use the same shaders. In the RADV (AMD) Vulkan Driver for the GPU GFX11, support for the Radeon GPU Profiler (RGP) profile tool has been implemented.

Furthermore, the RADV Vulkan drive comes with Valve optimization aimed at improving game performance on Steam Deck. The Vulkan Driver Radv now has support for a compact disc cache located in one file, which reduces the total cache by 60%, and amendments have been made to improve EGL support surrounded by Haiku Os. The ASAHI OPENGL Driver for the GPU Apple AGX used in the Apple M1

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