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AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 21:30
Last week AMD launched the Radeon RX 6650 XT / RX 6750 XT / RX 6950 XT models as RDNA2 refreshed for 2022 with higher clock speeds as an interim launch until RDNA3 graphics cards debut later in 2022. Up for Linux benchmarking today is a look at the Radeon RX 6750 XT open-source driver performance using an ASRock Challenger Pro Radeon RX 6750 XT 12GB.

Mesa 22.2 RadeonSI Adds Option To Disable AMD Infinity Cache Usage, Other Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 18:53
AMD's Radeon open-source Linux graphics driver developers remain very busy preparing for next-generation RDNA3 GPU support...

AMD Posts Latest Coherent Device Memory Mapping Linux Code - Designed For Frontier

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 18:07
For over the past year we've seen various patches posted by AMD engineers with a state effort around preparations for the Frontier supercomputer. Most of these patches have involved memory handling under Linux and the special purpose memory handling between the CPU/GPUs. Published on Monday was their latest work on coherent device memory mappings for the Linux kernel...

Microsoft's Newest Linux Driver Contribution Is Enabling MANA RDMA

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 17:33
Microsoft has another open-source driver they are working to get upstreamed into the Linux kernel...

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Nears Release, RCs Now Available

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 17:17
OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 betas began rolling out in March and now this distribution with shared sources to SUSE Linux Enterprise has advanced to the release candidate period...

Radeon Software for Linux 22.10.2 Brings RX 6650/6750/6950 XT Support, RHEL 9 Compatible

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 15:00
Last week AMD quietly released a new Radeon Software for Linux driver package focused on providing their fully open-source "Open" and "PRO" (featuring some proprietary components, OpenGL / Vulkan) for enterprise Linux distributions...

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