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35-Way Linux GPU Graphics Comparison, Initial NVIDIA RTX 40 SUPER Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 22:00
Here's a fresh look at the AMD Radeon versus NVIDIA GeForce Linux graphics/gaming performance across a variety of workloads as well as our first look at the GeForce RTX 4070 series and RTX 4080 SUPER performance. With recently receiving the rest of the GeForce RTX 40 series line-up currently released, we're now able to share a comprehensive look at how the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series versus AMD Radeon RX 7000 series performance is under Linux.

KDE Megarelease 6 RC2 Available For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 21:51
Releasing at the end of February is the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop where the Wayland session is the default. Plasma 6.0 will be joined by KDE Frameworks 6.0 and the Qt6-ported KDE Gear apps too. Out today for closing out January is the second release candidate of these packages...

LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 20:48
LibreOffice 24.2 is now available as the latest major update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite to compete with the likes of Microsoft Office...

EROFS Lands Big Optimization In Linux 6.8 For Low-Memory Scenarios

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 19:55
Merged overnight for Linux 6.8 is enhancing the EROFS read-only open-source file-system to perform better in low-memory scenarios. Not just better, but significantly better performance...

AMD P-State Linux Driver Gets Fixed Up For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 19:43
The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for improved thermal/power/performance behavior under Linux works for Zen 2 and newer systems where the platform exposes ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Controls (CPPC) support. There's been a caveat though of the "amd_pstate" driver having issues for the Zen2-based Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series. With a newly-published set of patches, that issue should be resolved...

Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 19:18
The newest feature tacked onto the Godot 4.3 open-source game engine is featuring native support for Wayland on Linux...

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