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      Meta Engineer's Linux Patches For Boosting AMD P-State / Steam Deck Gaming Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:21

    Back in July I wrote about AMD P-State driver patches boosting 1%-low frame rates for gaming by as much as 31%. That work was done by David Vernet who is a Linux kernel engineer/hacker at Mesa. This week Vernet presented on the topic at the Linux Plumbers Conference happening in Prague...
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      NVIDIA Vera HPC Performance Benchmarks Take On AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:00

    While most everyone understandably likes to talk about AI these days, one of the areas of NVIDIA's Vera CPU I have been most eager to test has been for conventional high performance computing (HPC) workloads. HPC was talked up as one of Vera's strengths thanks to its 1.2TB/s LPDDR5x memory bandwidth and custom Olympus cores. Vera is seeing deployments at HPC labs like Los Alamos. With recently having unfettered remote access to a dual NVIDIA Vera server, I ran through a variety of HPC workloads and similar performance benchmarks. Here is a look at how NVIDIA Vera performs against AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, including with CPU power and frequency metrics.
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      Vulkan API Improvements Coming For The AMD Polaris GPUs With Mesa RADV

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:21

    Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has done an incredible job improving older AMD GPU support under Linux with migrating GCN 1.0/1.1 era hardware to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver and an assortment of other improvements for various older Radeon GPUs. The newest work is on enhancing the RADV Vulkan driver support for old Radeon RX 400/500 "Polaris" graphics cards...
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      IBM & Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:23

    IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries...
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      The Importance Of Intel's LPMD For Linux Gaming Performance & Power Efficiency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:11

    Intel's LPMD project as the Low Power Mode Daemon for modern Intel Core Ultra desktops and laptops is quite important for achieving peak performance and optimal power efficiency. Here are some of Intel's own findings on the importance of LPMD for Linux gaming..
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      Blender 6.0 May End Up Removing OpenGL Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:11

    With Blender 5.0 having nice Vulkan API support that's now grown mature, Blender developers are contemplating on potentially removing OpenGL support in Blender 6.0...
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      Meta Developing Compressed RAM "CRAM" For Linux: Better Than ZRAM & Zswap

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM "CRAM" for Linux. This hardware-offloaded compression still allows cacheline/byte access to compressed memory and in turn a better implementation than the likes of ZRAM and Zswap. Very promising is that there is near-native performance to raw DRAM speeds with CRAM...
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      Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Run On Very Large Servers, Experimental Sparse VHD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:05

    Microsoft yesterday released WSL 3.0.2 as their latest WSL update since last week's WSL3 release with "WSLC" for promoting Linux containers on Windows to general availability. Some notable changes in WSL 3.0.2 include automatic virtual NUMA support and experimental support for sparse VHD storage...
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      Intel Compiler Engineer Shares Latest Project Gains For APX

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:54

    Last week at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 conference in Prague there was an x86 BOF with presentations both by AMD and Intel compiler engineers. There are a few interesting nuggets out of that with both Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AI Compute Extensions (ACE) talked about as part of their ongoing enablement in the GCC compiler...