Mesa 13.0.1 Is Out for Linux with Many Improvements for Intel and Radeon Vulkan Drivers

Posted by hanuca on Nov 14, 2016 12:03 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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After informing us last week about the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) version of the first point release of Mesa 13.0.0, Collabora's Emil Velikov released the final version today.

As noted in our previous report, Mesa 13.0.1 3D Graphics Library is here with a large number of improvements for both the Intel and Radeon Vulkan drivers, thus enhancing our gaming experience once again. For the Intel ANV Vulkan driver, it looks like it adds an up to 30 percent performance increase.

On the other hand, the latest RADV improvements allow you to install and use the Radeon Vulkan driver outside the /usr/lib directory on a Linux-based operating system, which is possible because of the implementation of distinctly named JSON files that contain the full path of the Vulkan driver.

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