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For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 20:04
In at least one game running on Linux via Proton Experimental, the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver paired with the latest Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel driver is delivering better performance than NVIDIA's proprietary Linux graphics driver...

Cloud Hypervisor 37 LTS Released With Faster VM Restoration From Snapshots

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 19:50
A new Long-Term Support version of Cloud Hypervisor was released this week, which is the open-source project originally started by Intel as a cloud-focused and Rust-written VMM that now has wide industry backing including from multiple other CPU vendors...

Sophgo SG2380 RISC-V SoC To Now Support Up To 96GB RAM, Additional PCIe & 25 GbE

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 19:34
Back in October the Milk-V Oasis mITX board was announced with this RISC-V board being powered by a 16-core Sophgo SG2380 SoC featuring SiFive-designed cores: 12 P cores and four E cores. While that Milk-V Oasis board isn't expected to ship until Q3'2024, Milk-V shared this week that the SG2380 RISC-V SoC has been revised with additional capabilities...

Intel Proposing XeGPU Dialect For LLVM MLIR

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 19:24
As part of Intel's ongoing quest for maximizing the compute performance of their GPUs/accelerators, their compiler engineers have proposed introducing a XeGPU dialect for LLVM's MLIR...

Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 02:50
There was recently a mini DebConf in Cambridge where the Debian GNU/Linux release team held a spring and figured out some items moving forward, including the dim future for i386 moving forward...

xf86-video-modesetting Driver Optimization Helps Conserve Intel Power Consumption

Phoronix - Sat, 12/16/2023 - 21:52
A change merged to the X.Org Server Git for the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver is helping conserve some power consumption at least for Intel graphics by determining the optimal hardware cursor size...

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