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      Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August 2026

    Merged today to Mesa 26.3-devel is a nice performance boost for Intel graphics with Valve's Steam Play when using DXVK for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over the Vulkan API. The open-source Intel ANV driver is seeing up to 5% better performance with DXVK...
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      XFS Lands FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August 2026

    The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES...
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      EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August 2026

    Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system...
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      Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video memory management is set to be introduced in the Linux 7.3 kernel. While that's a celebration on its own, Vock is pursuing more improvements still for bettering the Linux GPU driver video memory management behavior...
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      FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed...
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      Offloading Rust To GPUs Proves Capable Of High Performance With Memory Safety

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    A new research paper published on LLVM offloading to GPU accelerators using the Rust programming language is talking up the prospects of making use of safe Rust code for GPU kernels while retaining Rust's memory safety and other advantages over C++ / CUDA / HIP...
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      ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers for peripherals directly but the sad fact is most often it's left up to the open-source community to reverse engineer and create such drivers for Linux. Making it all the more surprising besides it coming from ARCTIC Cooling directly was that at the time they didn't even have a fan controller product with USB interface. Well, now it's launched and in turn is a great USB fan controller for Linux systems and retails for just $9 USD.
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      AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...
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      Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the SMP code are some enhancements for helping reduce latency and ultimately enhancing real-time Linux performance...