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Radeon RADV Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Achieves 100% Pass Rate

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 05:00
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" supports native hardware ray-tracing with RDNA2 and RDNA3 graphics cards where it's matured quite nicely over the past number of months. With the upcoming Mesa 23.2, RADV RT support is enabled by default for all supported GPUs. RADV also has emulated ray-tracing support for older generations of AMD GPUs and as of today it's finally hit a 100% pass rate...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 To RTX 4060 GPU Compute & Renderer Performance On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 02:52
Earlier this month I provided some initial GeForce RTX 4060 vs. Radeon RX 7600 Linux gaming benchmarks for this new sub-$300 graphics card. For those considering this latest Ada Lovelace graphics card for 3D rendering or compute purposes, here are some benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 on that front by looking at the generational performance of the x060 series graphics cards from the RTX 4060 back to the GTX 1060.

AMD's Compressonator 4.4 Adds AVX-512 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 01:28
The AMD Compressonator open-source tool suite that is under the GPUOpen umbrella has now added AVX-512 support alongside other enhancements in its v4.4 update...

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