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Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Looking Quite Good & Shining With Mesa 22.1

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 23:30
Recently I carried out some tests looking at the performance of Zink for OpenGL implemented atop the Vulkan API in a generic manner that works across drivers. With the state of Mesa 22.1, all of Zink's recent improvements are paying off and here is a quick look at where the performance stands against using the RadeonSI OpenGL driver.

AOMedia's "AVM" Repository Serves As Reference Implementation For Eventual AV1 Successor

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 19:58
The Alliance for Open Media already has a public repository serving as the reference software implementation for "AVM" as the AOM Video Model as the next-generation codec from this alliance responsible for the excellent AV1...

OpenCL 3.0.11 Released With Two New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 19:25
Overnight a new minor revision to the OpenCL 3.0 specification was published...

GCC 12.1 Compiler Released With AVX-512 FP16, Better RISC-V Support, More C++23 Features

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 18:35
GCC 12.1 is out today as the first stable release of GCC 12. It also marks 35 years already since the release of GCC 1.0...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Enabling New "LSDMA" Block

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 18:16
As part of the increasing flow of AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver patches coming out ahead of the RDNA3 launch later this year, a new hardware block exposed by the latest patches is "LSDMA"...

Intel ISPC 1.18 Compiler Brings "Significantly Improved" Xe Graphics Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 17:16
Ahead of Intel's Vision event next week, open-source Intel engineers have released ISPC 1.18 as the newest update to their SPMD Program Compiler...

FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 Released Due To Lingering Bugs

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 16:56
FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE was supposed to be out by the end of April but lingering bugs have yielded extra release candidates for this latest BSD operating system update...

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