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      Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...
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      PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June...
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      Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    Sent out today was a batch of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel drivers that are ready for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 7.2 merge window happens in June. Most notable is the introduction of the AMDGPU DC power module to better align with the Radeon power management behavior under Microsoft Windows...
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      Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.
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      Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!..
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      Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    Yesterday was the OpenCL 3.1 release and today is another exciting development for The Khronos Group standards: the debut of the Vulkan SC SDK for safety-critical applications...
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      Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client...
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      VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API...
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      AMD Expands ROCm Support On Windows WSL To More Ryzen Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May 2026

    Back in March AMD announced the open-source ROCDXG library for improved ROCm support on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The ROCDXG-based solution provides better ROCm compatibility within these Linux confines atop Windows 11 compared to their prior, now-legacy-based WSL support. A new ROCDXG release now available further expands the ROCm WSL2 support to more Ryzen hardware...