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Vulkan Comes To Apple Silicon GPUs / M1 By Means Of MoltenVK 1.1.1

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 13:00
While Apple continues to drive their own Metal graphics/compute API, Vulkan support built atop Metal continues to mature thanks to the open-source MoltenVK project. With the MoltenVK's latest update is now support for Apple Silicon with the M1's new GPU...

AMD Opens Up The Code To Its Radeon Memory Visualizer

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 07:42
Back in May was AMD's celebration of the GPUOpen re-launch and that included the introduction of the Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) as their newest tool at the time. But rather strange for being a "GPUOpen" development tool is that it was Windows-only and not actually open-source. Today that has now changed with Radeon Memory Visualizer going open-source...

Cyberpunk 2077 Can Run On Linux With Steam Play's Proton 5.13-4

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 05:06
The highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 game will run on Linux on launch day by means of Steam Play!..

Mesa 21.0 Begins Landing Optimizations For AMD Smart Access Memory

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 01:09
While AMD Smart Access Memory has already been supported under Linux for some time with its resizable BAR functionality, only now with all the excitement around the feature being promoted with the Ryzen 5000 series and Radeon RX 6000 series hardware is the Mesa driver code beginning to see some optimizations for it...

AMD Zen 3 Performance With The Initial "znver3" GCC Compiler Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/09/2020 - 23:00
Last week AMD published their Zen 3 support for GCC code compiler. That initial support, which has already been merged into GCC 11, is the initial support flipping on newly supported instructions but not yet offering any tuned scheduler model or other optimizations compared to the existing Zen 2 path. In any case, here is a look at the performance changes with building the open-source benchmarks under test with "znver3" compared to the prior Zen 2 and Zen 1 targets along with generic x86_64 and then also looking at the performance if catering the compiler targets for Intel's Skylake and Haswell processors.

The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Continue To Impress On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 12/09/2020 - 22:09
It's been just over one month since AMD launched the Ryzen 5000 series as the first processors part of the Zen 3 family. The Linux performance continues to be terrific with the Ryzen 5600X / 5800X / 5900X / 5950X parts in our continued benchmarking...

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