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AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 21:30
Last week AMD launched the Radeon RX 6650 XT / RX 6750 XT / RX 6950 XT models as RDNA2 refreshed for 2022 with higher clock speeds as an interim launch until RDNA3 graphics cards debut later in 2022. Up for Linux benchmarking today is a look at the Radeon RX 6750 XT open-source driver performance using an ASRock Challenger Pro Radeon RX 6750 XT 12GB.

Mesa 22.2 RadeonSI Adds Option To Disable AMD Infinity Cache Usage, Other Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 18:53
AMD's Radeon open-source Linux graphics driver developers remain very busy preparing for next-generation RDNA3 GPU support...

AMD Posts Latest Coherent Device Memory Mapping Linux Code - Designed For Frontier

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 18:07
For over the past year we've seen various patches posted by AMD engineers with a state effort around preparations for the Frontier supercomputer. Most of these patches have involved memory handling under Linux and the special purpose memory handling between the CPU/GPUs. Published on Monday was their latest work on coherent device memory mappings for the Linux kernel...

Microsoft's Newest Linux Driver Contribution Is Enabling MANA RDMA

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 17:33
Microsoft has another open-source driver they are working to get upstreamed into the Linux kernel...

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Nears Release, RCs Now Available

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 17:17
OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 betas began rolling out in March and now this distribution with shared sources to SUSE Linux Enterprise has advanced to the release candidate period...

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