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Hangover 0.8.1 Released To Run Some x86 Windows Apps On ARM64 Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 06:00
Hangover 0.8.1 was released today as the newest version of this open-source software project that leverages Wine and QEMU for being able to run Windows x86/x64 applications on 64-bit Arm and other CPU architectures...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 / RTX 4090 Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 02:00
Recently we finally received the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards for Linux testing from NVIDIA. For those that have been eager to see how the RTX 40 series hardware performs under Linux, here are my initial Linux gaming benchmarks featuring a variety of Linux native titles as well as with Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux atop Proton + DXVK/VKD3D-Proton. The GeForce RTX 4080/4090 Linux performance is compared against a variety of other graphics cards including the new Radeon RX 7900 XTX with its open-source upstream Linux driver support.

AMD GPUOpen FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2 Published

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 01:00
AMD's GPUOpen team has published the source code for their FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2 update. This update brings improved image quality for more cases, integration enhancements, a new debug API checker, and other refinements over the earlier FSR2 code...

Vulkan 1.3.241 Released With Another Extension To Help VKD3D / Direct3D 12 Emulation

Phoronix - Thu, 02/16/2023 - 23:28
Vulkan 1.3.241 was published today with a range of fixes and clarifications, cleaning up of the XML schema, and also introducing three new Vulkan extensions...

AMD P-State EPP Submitted For Linux 6.3 To Improve CPU Performance/Power

Phoronix - Thu, 02/16/2023 - 22:00
The ACPI, thermal, and power management changes for Linux 6.3 have been submitted early due to traveling next week by ACPI/PM maintainer Rafael Wysocki. Most significant with the Linux 6.3 power management updates is adding of the AMD P-State Energy Preference Performance (EPP) mode for helping to deliver better performance and power efficiency for modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC systems on Linux...

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