Vulkan 1.4.344 introduces a Valve-developed extension for mixed precision dot product operations in shaders, supporting various combinations of low-precision inputs with higher precision accumulation.
RADV lands VK_EXT_descriptor_heap in Mesa 26.1, a Vulkan extension designed to improve descriptor management for DXVK and VKD3D-Proton translation layers used by Steam Play.
A Valve engineer's kernel and KDE patches give foreground games priority VRAM access, dramatically improving Linux gaming on 8 GB GPUs.
Linux 7.1 switches GCN 1.1 APUs like Kaveri and Kabini to the modern AMDGPU driver, bringing better performance and Vulkan support to these older AMD chips.
Valve-backed Mesa developers are exploring per-game optimization profiles and shader tuning for Linux graphics drivers, a technique long used on Windows to boost gaming performance.
Valve developer Timur Kristóf fixed a bug preventing AMD Radeon GPUs in decade-old Intel iMacs from working with Linux's AMDGPU driver, enabling better performance and Vulkan support.
Wine 10.20 bundles VKD3D 1.18 and fixes 31 bugs as the project prepares for next week's Wine 11.0 code freeze.