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RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 00:20
It's been a while since last looking at the Zink performance for this OpenGL implementation built atop the Vulkan APIs, but with all of the Zink progress by Valve's Mike Blumenkrantz and others, here is a fresh round of testing. This article is seeing how for Mesa Git the performance of Zink on the RADV Vulkan driver compares to that of the native RadeonSI driver while testing with both the Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards.

Intel Announces Faster Arc Pro A60 & A60M Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 00:14
Intel today announced the Arc Pro A60 graphics card and the A60M as the mobile variant of this new faster class of Arc Pro Graphics...

Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 23:35
Experimental driver code available via the Asahi Linux "edge" packages allow for OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0 to be exposed for Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs under this Arch Linux based OS...

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 21:30
The soon-to-be-released openSUSE Leap 15.5 was going to be the last of the openSUSE Leap 15 series, but now openSUSE/SUSE has decided there will be an openSUSE Leap 15.6 release to allow additional time for their Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) to be developed...

Spend to save? - The Register

Google News - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 21:23
Spend to save?  The Register

Dav1d 1.2.1 Released With More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 20:54
Dav1d 1.2.1 was released and while the version number may not be significant, it does have some useful performance optimizations and other tuning for this CPU-based open-source AV1 video decoder...

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