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NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 40 Series With Much Better Ray-Tracing Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 23:22
Jensen Huang's GTC keynote is exciting as always and he just announced the GeForce RTX 40 series along with a host of other announcements for marking this week's NVIDIA event...

System76 Launches Redesigned Thelio Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 22:30
Four years ago System76 launched their Thelio line of Linux desktop computers that are built from scratch and wonderfully by them in their Colorado facility. Today the Linux-focused vendor is announcing their most significant overhaul of the Thelio desktop chassis design to date...

AMD RDNA 3 Being Announced On 3 November

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 21:34
AMD is expected to announce their Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA 3" graphics cards on 3 November...

OpenJDK Java 19 Released With RISC-V Linux Port, Foreign Function API

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 21:00
Out today is OpenJDK Java 19 in its general availability form while adding a number of new features...

RADV Driver Lands Ray-Tracing Optimizations To Boost Quake II RTX By ~10%

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 19:25
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver co-founder Bas Nieuwenhuizen has landed a set of micro-optimizations to the open-source driver for benefiting Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

Firefox 105 Now Available - Better Linux Performance Under Memory Pressure

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 18:21
While a number of recent Firefox releases have been rather "boring" on the Linux front with not many notable changes, Firefox 105.0 is out this morning and this time around is a bit more significant...

OpenMandriva Speeding Up Their AArch64 Linux Development With Ampere Altra

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 18:05
Ampere Computing has provided a 160-core Ampere Altra server with 128GB of RAM to the OpenMandriva project to help in speeding up their AArch64 Linux packaging and development efforts...

AMD Releases AOMP 16.0-0 As Their Radeon GPU OpenMP Offloading Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 17:53
AMD engineers today released AOMP 16.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler where they stage their latest development patches focused on Radeon GPU OpenMP offloading...

LLVM 15.0.1 Released With Nearly Three Dozen Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 17:37
It's been two weeks since the release of LLVM 15.0 and its sub-projects like Clang 15.0 so per their rapid release rhythm, out today is LLVM 15.0.1 with the initial batch of fixes...

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