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Panfrost Gallium3D To Focus On Better Performance, OpenGL 3.1 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 04:45
With Mesa 20.3 that should be released as stable in December there is working Arm Bifrost graphics support for the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D while looking past that this Arm Mali driver is going to be focusing on better performance and desktop OpenGL 3.1 support...

Cincoze GM-1000 - A Rugged, GPU-Focused, Fan-Less Industrial Computer

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 01:42
Cincoze is a brand we previously haven't tested at Phoronix but is a Chinese manufacturer of embedded computers. The company's recently introduced GM-1000 is advertised as a "Machine Vision Embedded Computer" geared for a variety of industrial applications in being constructed within a well engineered aluminum enclosure that is fan-less thanks to an array of heatpipes and chassis serving as a heatsink while offering MXM-based GPU expansion and a total system power budget of up to 360 Watts.

Running Intel Tiger Lake On The Linux 5.10 Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 22:34
Given Intel's very fresh Tiger Lake platform, our latest benchmarking with the Core i7-1165G7 within the Dell XPS 9310 is seeing if running the in-development Linux 5.10 kernel means any performance or power changes for this latest-generation Intel mobile CPU with Xe/Gen12 graphics...

Qt Developers Discuss What To Do With All Their "P1" Priority Bugs

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 22:00
While Qt 6.0 is aiming to ship in December there are many open bugs against the Qt code-base. Given the increasing number of P1 priority bug reports that are the highest besides the "P0" build breakage bug reports, developers are discussing what to do with these bugs and the merits of their current priority classifications...

Turnip Vulkan Driver Picks Up Geometry Streams To Support DXVK's Direct3D 10.1

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 19:30
We haven't heard much of traditional Linux gaming on any ARM-powered Qualcomm notebooks as it would rely on the likes of Hangover for running Windows x86_64 games on ARM, but the Turnip Vulkan driver within Mesa has a necessary feature for now being able to run DXVK with the Direct3D 10_1 (v10.1) feature level...

GCC 11's x86-64 Microarchitecture Feature Levels Are Ready To Roll

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 19:06
The Linux x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels have taken shape this year for different feature/performance levels based on a CPU's capabilities. Both LLVM Clang 12 and GCC 11 are ready to go in offering the new x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4 targets...

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