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NVIDIA 510.39.01 Linux Beta Brings Vulkan Dynamic Rendering, AV1 VDPAU Decode & More

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 23:00
In addition to announcing the GeForce RTX 3080 12GB graphics card this morning, NVIDIA has published their first public beta of the new NVIDIA 510 Linux driver series...

Radeon RADV Optimizations In Mesa 22.0 Improve PRIME/Hybrid GPU Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 22:15
While RADV is not AMD's official Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems, for Mesa 22.0 they have contributed a set of optimizations to improve the "DRI_PRIME" performance for hybrid GPU setups such as the growing number of AMD powered notebooks with discrete graphics...

DXVK 1.9.3 Released With NVIDIA DLSS Integration, Many Game Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 20:48
DXVK 1.9.3 is out as its first release of 2022 for implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan for allowing Windows games to enjoy good performance when running atop Linux via Valve's Steam Play...

Intel Lands 20~40% Performance Optimization For Arc Graphics In Mesa 22.0

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 20:00
Intel's pixel pipeline optimization work focused on speeding up DG2/Alchemist graphics cards with their open-source graphics driver has managed to land in Mesa 22.0...

New AMD P-State Driver Headlines The Power Management Updates For Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 19:00
The power management subsystem updates were sent out yesterday and already mainlined for the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel. Most notable with the power management changes for this new version of the Linux kernel is the introduction of the AMD P-State driver developed in cooperation with Valve for the Steam Deck but stands to help CPU/SoC power efficiency across Zen 2 and newer hardware...

Microsoft Lands D3D12 Compute Support In Mesa 22.0

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 18:08
Following Microsoft working on shader storage buffer object support for their Gallium3D D3D12 back-end within Mesa, they've been working on OpenGL compute and OpenGL ES 3.1 support for this controversial component to allow OpenGL/GLES/OpenCL to work atop Windows' Direct3D 12 drivers such as for Windows Subsystem for Linux...

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