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Intel's Open-Source Compute Runtime Performing Increasingly Well Against NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 22:56
Given the recent launch of the Intel Arc Graphics A580 for under $200, I've been working on a fresh round of Intel / AMD Radeon / NVIDIA GeForce Linux gaming/graphics and compute benchmark results. Next week that fresh arsenal of Linux graphics benchmarks on the very latest drivers will be published but for today is a look at the most surprising aspect: the OpenCL-focused GPU compute benchmarks.

Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 22:04
The Servo open-source web browser engine continues progressing as a community project under the leadership of Linux Foundation Europe. Over the course of October more features were implemented and additional fixes merged...

Experimental Zero-Copy Support For Nouveau With GNOME Mutter

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 20:04
Ubuntu desktop developer Daniel Van Vugt has been working on enabling zero-copy support for discrete GPUs within GNOME's Mutter compositor to deliver faster performance. This appears to be working so far with the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...

File Searching On KDE Plasma 6.0 To Use Less CPU Resources & Better Usability

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 18:48
Adding to the long list of improvements to find with next year's KDE Plasma 6.0 release is better file/folder searching with the "Recent Files" search area...

Blender 4.1 To Support Cycles Renderer On AMD RDNA3 APUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 18:35
Blender 4.0 will be releasing in early November but already there is something to look forward to with Blender 4.1 next year...

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