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AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For Budget "Krackan Point" Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 22:15
Earlier this month we looked at the Linux laptop performance of AMD's Krackan Point using the Ryzen AI 5 340 within a HP OmniBook 5 that can be found for as low as ~$450 during sales. For six Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics, Krackan Point worked well as a budget Linux laptop option. For those wondering how the Linux vs. Windows 11 performance compares for the budget HP OmniBook, here are some benchmarks.

Linux Driver Under Review For Apple Laptop Lid Events & Power Button

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 21:24
Following the recent Apple SMC driver upstreaming to handle rebooting Apple Silicon Macs under Linux, the latest code volleyed on the kernel mailing list for review is support for handling laptop lid events and power buttons. Plus Apple sensor monitoring driver support too...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.31.34666.3 Continues Prepping For Panther Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 20:35
Released minutes ago was the newest monthly feature release to the Intel Compute Runtime providing open-source OpenCL and Level Zero capabilities on Intel graphics hardware...

VKD3D 1.17 Released With More Improvements For DIrect3D 12 On Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 19:58
VKD3D 1.17 made its debut this morning as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation...

Panthor Open-Source Driver To Support Many More Arm Mali GPUs In Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 18:27
The open-source Panthor Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver providing the modern kernel graphics driver support for recent Arm Mali GPUs will be supporting a number of additional GPU models with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

NVIDIA Begins Linux Kernel Upstreaming Work For Their Vera Rubin NLV144 Platform

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 18:17
The first Linux kernel patches specific to their next-gen Vera Rubin NLV144 "VR144NVL" were posted today to the public Linux kernel mailing list...

RADV Vulkan Video Lands Intra-Refresh Encode

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 17:58
David Rosca who started out as a contractor for AMD working on their open-source video encode/decode capabilities for Linux formally joined the company earlier this summer. He's continued to be quite busy plumbing numerous enhancements into their accelerated video support on Linux, which includes RADV with Vulkan Video...

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