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AMD AOCC 4.0 Arrives For Squeezing More Performance Out Of Zen 4

Phoronix - Sat, 11/12/2022 - 05:00
On Thursday when launching AMD 4th Gen EPYC Genoa processors, AMD also published AOCC 4.0 as the newest version of the AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler. I've been putting it through its paces the past day and continues showing the positive performance impact of proper compiler tuning.

NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Driver Improves Firmware Handling, IBT Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/12/2022 - 02:15
With yesterday's NVIDIA 525.23 Linux driver beta in addition to many improvements in their closed-source code, their in-development open-source GPU kernel driver has also received some enhancements...

Google Releases Lyra 1.3 For Advancing This Very Low Bitrate Audio Codec

Phoronix - Fri, 11/11/2022 - 22:00
In early 2021 Google announced Lyra as a very low bitrate codec intended for speech with aims of getting Lyra and AV1 possible for video chats on 56 kbps connections...

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