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Intel XeSS 1.2 Released - Xe Super Sampling Still Driven By Some Windows Binary Blobs

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 06:57
Intel this afternoon released the Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) v1.2 SDK as this gaming image upscaling tech that leverages AI deep learning for better performance and less image degradation on Intel Arc Graphics as well as from other GPU vendors...

Chrome 116 Released With Document Picture-In-Picture API

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 04:42
Chrome 116 is out today as the newest stable version of Google's web browser...

Benchmarking The Performance Impact To AMD Inception Mitigations

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 22:30
Last week the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public as a speculative side channel attack affecting Zen processors and different mitigation options based on the CPU generation. There wasn't too much communication around the performance implications of mitigating Inception while over the past week I have begun benchmarking the software and microcode updates on Ryzen and EPYC processors.

Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 22:26
Devuan is still alive and well for those wanting to run Debian GNU/Linux but without systemd. Devuan 5.0 is out today as the newest distro release that is now rebased atop Debian 12 Bookworm...

Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 21:53
Mozilla developers are celebrating that they are now faster than Google Chrome with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, although that test has been superseded by the JetStream benchmark...

Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 18:20
Maíra Canal with Igalia has sent out a set of patches for exposing GPU usage statistics for the Broadcom graphics processor found within the Raspberry Pi 4 single b oard computers...

AMD P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux Updated, Will Be Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 17:55
AMD's Preferred Core feature continues working its way toward the Linux kernel for this functionality that's been around since Zen 2...

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