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Toshiba Looks To Upstream DNN Image Processing Accelerator Driver For Their Visconti SoC

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 18:00
Toshiba's Visconti SoC provides an optimized image recognition processor and geared for advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) solutions for automobiles and similar modern use-cases. Toshiba engineers are now publishing patches for their DNN image processing accelerator driver with hopes of getting the code upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel...

Toshiba Looks To Upstream DNN Image Processing Accelerator Driver For Their Visconti SoC

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 18:00
Toshiba's Visconti SoC provides an optimized image recognition processor and geared for advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) solutions for automobiles and similar modern use-cases. Toshiba engineers are now publishing patches for their DNN image processing accelerator driver with hopes of getting the code upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel...

Microsoft Extends Mesa's D3D12 Video Acceleration To Support Video Engine Based Effects

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 17:42
Since last year Microsoft has been working on Direct3D 12 video acceleration for Mesa so that Windows Subsystem for Linux can run common applications targeting the VA-API video acceleration API and ultimately enjoy GPU-based video acceleration by way of Direct3D 12. After the initial video encode/decode support for D3D12 was merged to Mesa earlier this year, the latest Microsoft contribution is now handling of video engine based effects...

Microsoft Extends Mesa's D3D12 Video Acceleration To Support Video Engine Based Effects

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 17:42
Since last year Microsoft has been working on Direct3D 12 video acceleration for Mesa so that Windows Subsystem for Linux can run common applications targeting the VA-API video acceleration API and ultimately enjoy GPU-based video acceleration by way of Direct3D 12. After the initial video encode/decode support for D3D12 was merged to Mesa earlier this year, the latest Microsoft contribution is now handling of video engine based effects...

AMD ROCm 5.2.1 Released For The Open-Source Radeon GPU Compute Stack

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 17:17
Released last month was AMD ROCm 5.2 for the company's open-source Linux GPU compute stack while out today is the v5.2.1 point release...

AMD ROCm 5.2.1 Released For The Open-Source Radeon GPU Compute Stack

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 17:17
Released last month was AMD ROCm 5.2 for the company's open-source Linux GPU compute stack while out today is the v5.2.1 point release...

Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 4.0 With Even Faster Performance

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 16:43
When it comes to compressing textures using the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) format that is supported by the OpenGL / OpenGL ES / Vulkan APIs, Arm's ASTC Encoder has long reigned supreme. Out today is ASTC-Encoder 4.0 as the latest performance-boosting update to this open-source compressor...

Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 4.0 With Even Faster Performance

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 16:43
When it comes to compressing textures using the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) format that is supported by the OpenGL / OpenGL ES / Vulkan APIs, Arm's ASTC Encoder has long reigned supreme. Out today is ASTC-Encoder 4.0 as the latest performance-boosting update to this open-source compressor...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver For Ray-Tracing Gets "Like A 100x Improvement"

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 07:00
Intel's Linux graphics driver developers continue to be very busy polishing the DG2/Alchemist graphics card support for forthcoming Intel Arc Graphics hardware... Merged today to the open-source Intel Mesa Vulkan driver was a ray-tracing focused fix that yields "like a 100x (not joking) improvement." Even more of a kicker? The change is one line of code for the massive improvement...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver For Ray-Tracing Gets "Like A 100x Improvement"

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 07:00
Intel's Linux graphics driver developers continue to be very busy polishing the DG2/Alchemist graphics card support for forthcoming Intel Arc Graphics hardware... Merged today to the open-source Intel Mesa Vulkan driver was a ray-tracing focused fix that yields "like a 100x (not joking) improvement." Even more of a kicker? The change is one line of code for the massive improvement...

Qualcomm Working On Vulkan Image Processing With New v1.3.222 Extensions

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 02:00
Released today was Vulkan 1.3.222 as the newest Vulkan spec with various clarifications/corrections plus two new extensions coming out of Qualcomm...

Qualcomm Working On Vulkan Image Processing With New v1.3.222 Extensions

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 02:00
Released today was Vulkan 1.3.222 as the newest Vulkan spec with various clarifications/corrections plus two new extensions coming out of Qualcomm...

Feral Releases GameMode 1.7

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 00:20
The Linux game porters at Feral Interactive have released GameMode 1.7 as the newest version of their daemon that can ensure your CPU frequency scaling governor is set to "performance" mode, among other system performance optimizations, automatically when launching games...

Feral Releases GameMode 1.7

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 00:20
The Linux game porters at Feral Interactive have released GameMode 1.7 as the newest version of their daemon that can ensure your CPU frequency scaling governor is set to "performance" mode, among other system performance optimizations, automatically when launching games...

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U "Rembrandt" Linux Benchmarks

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 21:30
I've begun testing the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U "Rembrandt" SoC under Linux and have some preliminary benchmarks of this Zen 3+ chip up against a variety of Intel and AMD notebooks on hand. Here is the first of several articles looking at the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U Linux performance using a Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen3.

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U "Rembrandt" Linux Benchmarks

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 21:30
I've begun testing the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U "Rembrandt" SoC under Linux and have some preliminary benchmarks of this Zen 3+ chip up against a variety of Intel and AMD notebooks on hand. Here is the first of several articles looking at the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U Linux performance using a Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen3.

AMD Posts New Linux Audio Driver Code For Raphael

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 18:00
AMD today posted new open-source Linux driver code for enabling the audio co-processor (ACP) with the upcoming Raphael platform with the Ryzen 7000 series processors...

AMD Posts New Linux Audio Driver Code For Raphael

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 18:00
AMD today posted new open-source Linux driver code for enabling the audio co-processor (ACP) with the upcoming Raphael platform with the Ryzen 7000 series processors...

RADV Continues Getting Ready For Vulkan Mesh Shader Support

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 17:33
Merged yesterday into RADV for Mesa 22.2 is implementing task/mesh shader draw support...

RADV Continues Getting Ready For Vulkan Mesh Shader Support

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 17:33
Merged yesterday into RADV for Mesa 22.2 is implementing task/mesh shader draw support...

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