Open-source News

Intel Acquires The Team Behind ArrayFire GPU Acceleration / Parallel Computing Software

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 08:28
In addition to Intel acquiring Linutronix as the company known for their work on the real-time (RT) kernel patches and other contributions and then back in June acquiring Codeplay Software, Intel has today made another notable software talent acquisition... Intel announced this afternoon that the team behind ArrayFire has joined the company to further their ambitious software endeavors...

Intel Details More Arc Graphics A-Series Hardware Specifications

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 06:15
Intel has detailed more of the Arc Graphics A-Series hardware specifications for upcoming models, including the A700 series...

Blender 3.3 CPU-Based Performance Looking Nice For AMD & Intel

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 00:53
With yesterday's release of Blender 3.3 much of the excitement has been about the new Intel oneAPI back-end for Arc Graphics acceleration and also improvements to AMD's HIP back-end for supporting GPUs back to Vega. However, even if you are using CPU-based rendering, Blender 3.3 LTS is looking like a nice upgrade for better performance...

AMD Releases FidelityFX Super Resolution FSR 2.1

Phoronix - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 21:37
AMD's GPUOpen group has released an updated version of FidelityFX Super Resolution 2. The new FSR 2.1 brings quality enhancements and a reduction in artifacts as the primary benefits over the original FSR2 that was unvelied earlier this year and open-sourced during the summer...

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D - Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 18:10
With the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D as the first consumer processor with AMD 3D V-Cache technology that launched earlier this year, the Linux performance has been fantastic for a variety of workloads especially in areas of technical computing and other non-gaming workloads -- similar to the great results we've enjoyed with AMD EPYC Milan-X processors too. One of the areas I hadn't had a chance to look at until recently was how the Windows 11 vs. Linux performance is looking for this Ryzen CPU with its 96MB L3 cache. Here are those quick benchmarks.

Pages