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NVIDIA Publishes DLSS Super Resolution SDK 3.1, Including Updated Linux Demo

Phoronix - Sat, 02/11/2023 - 03:00
NVIDIA just published to GitHub the DLSS Super Resolution SDK v3.1, their first software development kit update made public since last May when DLSS v2.4 was the latest and greatest...

systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 02/11/2023 - 01:30
Systemd 253 is gearing up for release while out today is the third and possibly final release candidate...

Intel Enables Compute-Based Transcoding To DXT5 With Mesa

Phoronix - Fri, 02/10/2023 - 23:00
An Intel engineer has implemented compute-based transcoding support to the DXT5 texture format as part of S3TC texture compression. This new path yields a 56% decrease in upload time for a texture upload micro-benchmark when tested on an Intel Ice Lake system with the Iris Gallium3D driver...

Embree 4.0 Is Running Well On Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids"

Phoronix - Fri, 02/10/2023 - 22:00
This week Intel released Embree 4.0 as the newest version of their open-source, high performance ray-tracing library. While the headline feature is now having support for GPU acceleration with SYCL to take advantage of Arc Graphics and other GPU hardware with SYCL support, for those that have long been using Embree on CPUs its performance has also improved. Here are some initial CPU-based benchmarks I did this week on Embree 4.0 with Intel's new 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors.

Another Attempt Made To Upstream An Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 02/10/2023 - 19:38
Apple introduced the Touch Bar to their MacBook Pro laptops a half-decade ago as a dynamic touchscreen to replace the function keys on the keyboard. While some MacBook Pro models have already dropped the Touch Bar for not catching on, some community developers in the open-source Linux community continue work on enabling the functionality for the upstream Linux kernel...

Zstd 1.5.4 Released With Many Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 02/10/2023 - 19:16
After being in development for nearly one year , Zstd 1.5.4 has been released with many "significant performance improvements across multiple scenarios" for this increasingly-used data compression algorithm...

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