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Blender 3.3 CPU-Based Performance Looking Nice For AMD & Intel

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 00:53
With yesterday's release of Blender 3.3 much of the excitement has been about the new Intel oneAPI back-end for Arc Graphics acceleration and also improvements to AMD's HIP back-end for supporting GPUs back to Vega. However, even if you are using CPU-based rendering, Blender 3.3 LTS is looking like a nice upgrade for better performance...

AMD Releases FidelityFX Super Resolution FSR 2.1

Phoronix - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 21:37
AMD's GPUOpen group has released an updated version of FidelityFX Super Resolution 2. The new FSR 2.1 brings quality enhancements and a reduction in artifacts as the primary benefits over the original FSR2 that was unvelied earlier this year and open-sourced during the summer...

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D - Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 18:10
With the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D as the first consumer processor with AMD 3D V-Cache technology that launched earlier this year, the Linux performance has been fantastic for a variety of workloads especially in areas of technical computing and other non-gaming workloads -- similar to the great results we've enjoyed with AMD EPYC Milan-X processors too. One of the areas I hadn't had a chance to look at until recently was how the Windows 11 vs. Linux performance is looking for this Ryzen CPU with its 96MB L3 cache. Here are those quick benchmarks.

Distrobox 1.4 Released - Easier Container Upgrades, Local Podman Install For Steam Deck

Phoronix - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 17:49
Distrobox is the open-source software that quickly and easily fires up Linux distributions in containers for helping to augment the package selection from your host distribution, easily experiment with different distributions, and other use-cases. Distrobox 1.4 is out this week with the latest enhancements for this project...

Vulkan 1.3.227 Adds Legacy Dithering Extension To Help OpenGL On Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 17:28
Last week saw the debut of Vulkan 1.3.226 with mesh shader support introduced as a new cross-vendor extension while out this morning is Vulkan 1.3.227 with a new extension for helping the layering of OpenGL atop Vulkan...

Qt 5.15.6 LTS Open-Source Version Released

Phoronix - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 17:16
One day shy of a year since Qt 5.15.6 LTS Commercial was released, The Qt Company has now published that point release as open-source...

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