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Intel Outlines Arc A750 Graphics Card For $289, More Arc Graphics Details

Phoronix - Fri, 09/30/2022 - 05:00
Earlier this week at the Intel Innovation event it was announced the Arc Graphics A770 would be launching 12 October and the base model costing $329 USD. Today the embargo lifts on more details around Intel's forthcoming higher-end Arc Graphics hardware...

Google Shutting Down Its Stadia Game Streaming Service

Phoronix - Fri, 09/30/2022 - 00:30
Back in 2019 Google announced Stadia as their cloud gaming service using Linux, embracing Vulkan, and leveraging AMD graphics. While promising at first, it's been dwindling down and Google announced today they are in the process of shutting down this streaming service...

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Linux Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 09/29/2022 - 23:40
Earlier this week I published my AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and Ryzen 9 7950X Linux review as well as an extensive Zen 4 AVX-512 analysis and Linux gaming performance tests. Since then I have received the Ryzen 7 7700X from AMD for Linux testing and out today are those initial Linux benchmarks. The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X is available in-stock at $399 USD from Internet retailers and is an 8-core / 16-thread processor with a maximum boost clock speed of 5.4GHz.

Apple M1 Linux GPU DRM Driver Now Running GNOME, Various Apps

Phoronix - Thu, 09/29/2022 - 20:50
It was just yesterday that reverse-engineering, open-source driver developer Asahi Lina got the display output working and running Wayland's Weston. After a long day hacking away on this first Rust-written Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver, the GNOME desktop is even running off this Apple M1 graphics driver as well as applications like Firefox complete with YouTube...

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