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Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 00:00
When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 21:53
Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!..

Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 21:22
Yesterday was the OpenCL 3.1 release and today is another exciting development for The Khronos Group standards: the debut of the Vulkan SC SDK for safety-critical applications...

Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 21:10
Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client...

VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 20:30
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API...

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