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NVIDIA 515.57 Linux Driver Released With Fixes, NvFBC Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 06/28/2022 - 21:20
In addition to announcing the GeForce GTX 1630 budget card today (expect our Linux review soon), NVIDIA published 515.57 as their newest stable NVIDIA Linux driver release...

Fedora 37 Gets A Batch Of New Features Approved

Phoronix - Tue, 06/28/2022 - 21:00
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a fresh batch of features for the next Fedora Linux distribution release...

GCC 10.4 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 06/28/2022 - 20:38
For those not yet on the GCC 11 or GCC 12 stable series, GCC 10.4 is out today as the latest in that older stable series...

Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Continues Outperforming AMDVLK For RDNA2 Linux Gaming

Phoronix - Tue, 06/28/2022 - 18:00
With last week seeing AMDVLK 2022.Q2.3 released as an update to AMD's official open-source Vulkan Linux driver and it noting performance improvements, it was time for some fresh benchmarks of that driver up against Mesa's alternative "RADV" Vulkan driver. Here are some fresh benchmarks with an AMD RDNA2 GPU for seeing how RADV continues competing -- and usually outperforming -- AMD's own official open-source driver.

Intel Brews Linux Change For More Efficient Idle CPU Searching Under Heavy System Load

Phoronix - Tue, 06/28/2022 - 17:22
A "sched/fair" scheduler change queued this morning into TIP's sched/core for Linux 5.20 aims to enhance the efficiency when searching for an idle CPU under heavy system load. The change led by Intel should improve the kernel's efficiency when the system is overloaded but as with most low-level tuning does run the risk of regressions...

Mesa's Lima Gallium3D Driver Lands 4x MSAA Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/28/2022 - 16:59
A decade after Luc Verhaegen started the Lima driver effort for reverse-engineering Arm Mali graphics, developers continue occasionally working on improvements to this Gallium3D driver for older generations of Mali hardware. The most recent feature work is finally enabling 4x MSAA support...

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