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Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 08:51
The latest notable feature addition for Mesa 24.0 worth mentioning is to NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver for providing increasingly robust Vulkan API support on this alternative to NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver...

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 03:23
Beyond the usual new wired/wireless network hardware support and the other routine churn in the big Linux networking subsystem, the Linux 6.8 kernel is bringing some key improvements to the core networking code that can yield up to a ~40% improvement for TCP performance when encountering many concurrent network connections...

Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 01:25
Arch Linux is finally going the way of Fedora and others in making Dbus-Broker its default D-Bus daemon implementation...

RADV Driver Lands "Highly Experimental" Transfer Queue Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 00:34
Thanks to Valve's open-source developers, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has landed experimental support for transfer queues for facilitating SDMA image copies...

System76 Thelio Ramps Up AI & Creator Performance With New AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/09/2024 - 23:30
System76 has opted to offer new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors in their Thelio Major desktop line-up to provide for greater performance from AI and creator workloads to all common code compilation and other tasks leveraging many CPU cores/threads. The new System76 Thelio Major powered by Zen 4 Threadripper is being shown off this week at CES 2024 in Las Vegas at AMD's booth. A review on the new Thelio Major workstation will also be forthcoming on Phoronix...

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