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VKD3D-Proton 2.2 Released With Tier 1 Variable Rate Shading, Preps For DXR Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Sat, 02/20/2021 - 04:02
In addition to having DXVK 1.8 released for Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan, Valve's VKD3D-Proton project also is enjoying a new release in time for weekend gamers wanting to run the latest Direct3D 12 titles via Vulkan on Linux with Steam Play...

Linux 5.12 Will Avoid Prematurely Shutting Down Intel Mobile Systems When Running Hot

Phoronix - Sat, 02/20/2021 - 03:43
Linux 5.12 with queued thermal changes will avoid prematurely shutting down mobile Intel workstations when a "critical" thermal threshold is reached that isn't too critical...

Radeon "GFX90A" Added To LLVM As Next-Gen CDNA With Full-Rate FP64

Phoronix - Sat, 02/20/2021 - 01:23
It looks like the open-source driver support to the next-generation CDNA GPU / MI100 "Arcturus" successor is on the way. Hitting mainline AMDGPU LLVM is a new "GFX90A" target adding new interesting features for compute...

LLVM Clang 12 Performance Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Phoronix - Sat, 02/20/2021 - 00:00
With LLVM 12 due for release next month and GCC 11 not being far behind, it's the season for fresh compiler benchmarks. In today's article is a look at the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Zen 3) compiler performance between LLVM Clang 11.1 against the current LLVM Clang 12.0 Git development code in its feature-frozen state.

Experimental Wayland Support For Wine Now Sees More Functionality Working

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 23:36
Back in December there was an experimental driver for native Wayland support within Wine published by Collabora developer Alexandros Frantzis. A new version of the Wayland patches for Wine have now been published...

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