Mesa 21.0 Released With Many New Features | Linux Today

Mesa 21.0 Released With Many New Features and Improvements

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Marius Nestor
Mar 12, 2021

Coming more than a year after the Mesa 20.0 series, the Mesa 21.0 release introduces many cool features to the Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV), including support for the VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor_type and VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate (RDNA2 only) Vulkan extensions, sparse memory support, and rapid packed math (16bit-vectorization).

Collabora’s Panfrost graphics driver (including Bifrost) for Mali GPUs also received OpenGL 3.1 support for Mali T760+ GPUs, as well as OpenGL ES 3.0 support on Mali G31, G52, and G72 GPUs.

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