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KDE Developers Prepare More Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 5.25, Early Feature Work On 5.26

Phoronix - Sat, 06/11/2022 - 18:49
Ahead of the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy this past week with last minute fixes ahead of that half-year update as well as beginning early work for Plasma 5.26...

PoCL 3.0 Released With Minimal OpenCL 3.0 Implementation For CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/11/2022 - 01:00
PoCL 3.0 has been formally released today for this portable OpenCL implementation that supports execution on CPUs or other back-ends by way of LLVM such as for targeting AMD HSA, NVIDIA GPUs, and other accelerators. With PoCL 3.0 comes initial OpenCL 3.0 support while the actual conformance results are still pending...

Blender 3.2 Performance With AMD Radeon HIP vs. NVIDIA GeForce On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 06/10/2022 - 21:00
This week's release of Blender 3.2 brings AMD GPU rendering support on Linux via AMD's HIP interface in conjunction with their ROCm compute stack. Eager to see the AMD GPU support on Linux finally arrive, I quickly began trying out this new Blender open-source 3D modeling software release while seeing how the AMD RDNA2 HIP performance compares to that of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs that have long enjoyed top-notch support under Blender.

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