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Valve Boosts AMD GPU Performance by 30% in Linux

1/3/2026

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  • Valve's Linux graphics team, led by Timur Kristóf, will move AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 GPUs to the AMDGPU driver with Linux Kernel 6.19, delivering nearly 30% performance gains.
  • Recent patches address virtual memory faults that affect these GPUs during Vulkan operations.
  • Previously, these VM faults could occur thousands of times per second, causing instability.
  • Mesa 26.0 is expected later this quarter.