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AMD HIP vs. NVIDIA CUDA vs. NVIDIA OptiX On Blender 3.2

Phoronix - Tue, 06/14/2022 - 21:00
Last week with the release of Blender 3.2 bringing AMD HIP support for Linux to provide for Radeon GPU acceleration, I posted some initial benchmarks of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series with HIP against NVIDIA RTX with OptiX. There was interest by some Phoronix readers in also seeing NVIDIA CUDA results even though OptiX is in good shape with RTX GPUs, so with that here are results of NVIDIA CUDA vs. NVIDIA OptiX vs. AMD HIP with Blender 3.2 on Ubuntu Linux.

KDE Plasma 5.25 Released With Wayland Improvements, Improved Gestures

Phoronix - Tue, 06/14/2022 - 20:30
KDE Plasma 5.25 is now shipping as the latest half-year major update to the KDE desktop...

GitLab Now The Main Development Platform For Wine

Phoronix - Tue, 06/14/2022 - 19:30
Earlier this year Wine began experimenting with GitLab to improve their development workflow for this open-source project that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux. It's now been decided that the GitLab workflow is useful and will now be their path forward...

Performance-Boosting MGLRU Patches Updated Against Current Linux 5.19 State

Phoronix - Tue, 06/14/2022 - 18:00
While there are many exciting new features coming with Linux 5.19, one of the features that wasn't submitted this cycle unfortunately was the Multi-Gen "MGLRU" code led by Google. As covered in several prior Phoronix articles, the MGLRU support has exciting performance implications for making the Linux kernel's page reclaim code far more efficient...

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