Open-source News

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:22
The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.16 Fixes PyTorch For Battlemage GPUs, Adds BMG-G31 + WCL

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:14
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime oneAPI/OpenCL release, a new version of the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" has been released for Windows and Linux...

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 5-Inch Released For $40

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 17:52
The newest hardware offering announced by Raspberry Pi today is a 5-inch variant of the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2...

Linux 6.17-rc2 Released With Performance Fixes & More

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 06:59
Linux 6.17-rc2 is now available to facilitate the latest weekly testing of the Linux 6.17 kernel...

Linux 6.17 Performance Looking Even Better After Early Fallout Addressed

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 00:30
Last week I ran some early Linux 6.17 benchmarks showing some improvements and regressions when testing with AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo". Since then there have been some performance regression fixes along with addressing other early fallout from this fresh kernel code. Repeating the tests now on the latest Linux 6.17 Git state ahead of today's Linux 6.17-rc2 tagging is showing some nice improvements and fixes from the code churn this week...

Pages