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Intel Joins The PyTorch Foundation

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 01:54
As part of Intel's ongoing AI push, the company announced today they have joined the PyTorch Foundation as a premier member...

Open Enterprise Linux Association Brings Together CIQ, Oracle & SUSE

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 00:34
OpenELA has been announced as the Open Enterprise Linux Association that brings together CIQ (Rocky Linux), Oracle, and SUSE for collaborating around RHEL-compatible Linux distributions...

NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For August 2023

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 23:16
After resorting to buying a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card to be able to share Linux performance metrics for that more affordable Ada GPU, last month I posted the Radeon RX 7600 vs. GeForce RTX 4060 benchmarks as well as looking at the GeForce GTX 1060 through RTX 4060 GPU compute and renderer performance across several generations of NVIDIA GPUs. For those considering the RTX 4060 for a Linux gaming system or an upgrade to other recently released AMD or NVIDIA GPUs, here is a fresh round of Linux gaming performance metrics on the newest drivers.

AMD Zen 5 EDAC & Temperature Monitoring Slated For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 21:47
AMD Linux engineers continue work on enabling the Family 1Ah CPU models for the Linux kernel as what would appear to almost surely be the next-gen Zen 5 processors...

Radeon R600g Driver Retires Its SB Optimizer

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 20:54
A decade ago the Radeon R600g SB shader back-end proved useful for boosting gaming performance on pre-GCN graphics cards of the time and proved useful. But in more recent years in the R600g switch to NIR, the SB path hasn't received much attention and its benefits have diminished. The R600g SB code has now been dropped...

Nouveau Kernel Driver Changes For Supporting NVK Vulkan Submitted To DRM-Next

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 18:36
The Nouveau DRM kernel driver changes for new user-space APIs to be used by the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver have now been submitted for pulling to DRM-Next from the current drm-misc-next queue. These Nouveau kernel driver additions for NVK in turn will then premiere with the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle...

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