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Intel Arc Graphics A770: Windows 11 vs. Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 23:00
Following the year-end looks at Windows 11 vs. Linux graphics/gaming performance for AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, today's article is my first look at the Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for Intel Arc Graphics with the flagship A770 graphics card.

NVIDIA 525.78.01 Linux Driver Released With Support For The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 21:28
NVIDIA this morning released the NVIDIA 525.78.01 Linux driver as a minor update to the R525 driver series with a few fixes and support for the new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card...

LLVM Lands Support For Intel's Emerald Rapids

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 21:20
Merged today for the LLVM 16 compiler stack is support for Intel's next-generation Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" processors with -march=emeraldrapids now being supported...

More AMD Zen 4 Compiler Code Merged For GCC 13

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 19:38
Following the recent Zen 4 tuning patches that were merged to GCC 13 (Git) just ahead of Christmas, today an AMD patch adding the Zen 4 automatons have been merged ahead of this next open-source compiler release...

Blumenkrantz Back To Working On Zink Improvements For 2023

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 19:20
After enjoying a two month holiday, Valve-funded Mike Blumenkrantz is back to working on Mesa's Zink code that implements OpenGL (and via Clover even OpenCL) atop the Vulkan API. Zink has shown it can be quite competitive in its OpenGL performance atop Vulkan compared to dedicated OpenGL drivers and in 2023 should be maturing into even better shape...

A Prominent Linux Kernel Developer Re-Joins AMD

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 19:05
Those paying close attention to the Linux kernel development may have noticed a small change to how a key Linux developer is marking his kernel patches...

Google Moves Forward With HugeTLB HGM For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 18:27
Sent out last year as "request for comments" were two rounds of patches by Google engineer James Houghton for introducing the concept of HugeTLB High Granularity Mapping (HGM) to the Linux kernel. In kicking off the new year, the set of 46 patches in their post-RFC state have been mailed out for review...

AMD Announces Ryzen 7040/7045HX Mobile CPUs, Ryzen 7000 Series X3D, Instinct MI300

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 16:52
Tonight during Lisa Su's keynote for CES 2023, a number of exciting AMD announcements were made...

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