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Upstream Mesa Close To Supporting The Experimental Xe DRM Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 04/13/2023 - 05:30
While we are still waiting for the Intel Xe kernel driver to be upstreamed as the modern alternative to the long-used i915 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver, upstream Mesa Git is nearly ready in supporting the Xe kernel driver and its new/changed interfaces...

Ryzen Mobile Power/Performance With Linux 6.3's New AMD P-State EPP Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 04/13/2023 - 01:00
With Linux 6.3 there is the new AMD P-State EPP driver code for supporting the ACPI Energy Performance Preference (EPP) to further enhance the power efficiency and performance of modern AMD systems on Linux. Last week I ran some benchmarks of AMD EPYC with the new AMD P-State EPP mode while in today's article is a look at the laptop impact with Ryzen Mobile when comparing ACPI CPUFreq, the existing AMD P-State driver, and the new AMD P-State EPP mode and its multiple different preferences.

NVIDIA RTX-Remix 0.1 Released For Adding Path Tracing To Classic Games

Phoronix - Wed, 04/12/2023 - 22:30
In addition to releasing the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card today (unfortunately, no launch day Linux review, still waiting on hardware...), NVIDIA has released as open-source the RTX Remix software for helping to add path tracing support to classic games...

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