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RADV Implements Triangle Pair Compression For AMD RDNA4 GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 08/08/2025 - 20:36
The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics processors...

PCIe Improvements With Linux 6.17: Intel Panther Lake, Qualcomm, Sophgo SG2044 & More

Phoronix - Fri, 08/08/2025 - 18:42
The PCI changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.17 merge window. There is new PCIe controller support and some other additions worth mentioning with the new PCI feature code...

FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding

Phoronix - Fri, 08/08/2025 - 18:20
Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land. Hitting FFmpeg Git today are some Vulkan Video additions...

GCC 15.2 Released With More Than 123 Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Fri, 08/08/2025 - 18:08
Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety of bug fixes back-ported...

LACT 0.8.1 Linux GPU Control Panel Improves Voltage/Clock Controls For Older AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 08/08/2025 - 12:00
LACT 0.8.1 is out with a few important changes for this open-source Linux GPU control application that is written in Rust and rendered using GTK...

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