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RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 23:50
Last week with delivering a number of AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan ray-tracing benchmarks under Linux with the current drivers and using the new "Breaking Limit" benchmark, the question was raised how well does AMD's official "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver handle ray-tracing these days compared to the more popular Mesa RADV Vulkan driver used commonly by Linux gamers and as the default driver on most Linux distributions. Here is a fresh look at the RADV versus AMDVLK Vulkan performance on Linux with a focus on ray-tracing performance.

AMD Core Performance Boost & Fast CPPC Land In Linux 6.11, Intel Lunar Lake Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 21:55
The power management updates have been merged for Linux 6.11 that include some nice improvements for Intel and AMD processors...

spectre_bhi=vmexit Mitigation Merged For Linux 6.11 Cloud Use

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 20:41
The "x86/bugs" code has been merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel that is just three patches this go around but includes a new Spectre BHI mitigation option...

Linux 6.11 EFI Will Fake That It's Booting Apple macOS To Fix Some Dual-GPU Macs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 18:40
The EFI changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel. Notable this cycle on the EFI side is removing support for EFI fake memory maps and then a workaround to get dual GPU support working for some of the older x86-based Apple MacBook Pros by pretending that Apple macOS is booting rather than Linux...

Linux 6.11 Sees New Wired & Wireless Networking Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 18:33
The networking subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 6.11 kernel with support for a variety of new wireless and wired networking hardware...

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