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      Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:00

    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 • 13:53

    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 • 13:22

    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 • 13:10

    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 • 12:30

    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 • 11:43

    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...
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      AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:35

    For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs...
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      Intel Kernel Graphics Driver Brings Panel Replay Tunneling For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:22

    Now that the Linux v7.1 merge window is well past, Intel kernel graphics driver engineers are busy prepping new feature code for introduction for targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...
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      GCC Git Lands Fix For Missing AVX-512 Optimizations On AMD Zen 6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:06

    Last week marked the release of GCC 16.1 as the first GCC 16 stable release. While that release introduces initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" support well in advance of those next-generation AMD processors debuting, it's not yet in perfect shape with just today two missing optimizations around AVX-512 having been merged...