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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:18
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.

RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 21:53
Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative matrix support ended up being merged earlier this month while hitting Mesa Git today is the DCC support that is important for RDNA4 performance...

Intel PyTorch Extnesion 2.6 Brings More Xeon 6 Optimizations

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 21:47
Intel software engineers overnight released the newest version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch. The v2.6 release brings new optimizations for current-generation Xeon 6 processors as well as new large language model (LLM) performance optimizations...

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