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CachyOS Continues Delivering Leading Performance Over Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 01:30
With Intel having sunset Clear Linux, when it comes to aggressive out-of-the-box Linux performance there is the Arch Linux based CachyOS as the leading contender. Given the recent releases of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora Workstation 43, if you are curious about the out-of-the-box performance here are some fresh benchmarks of all three using the Framework Desktop.

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary"

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 00:58
Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated with individual pipelines. The focus of this is to bypass the Vulkan pipeline caching mechanism and so applications can manage caches themselves. Finally today for Mesa 26.0-devel the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has enabled this extension...

CodeWeavers Launches CrossOver Preview For Linux ARM64

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 23:18
CodeWeavers announced this morning a new CrossOver Preview that includes Linux ARM64 support for the first time. This commercial software built atop Wine is now comfortable with the state of running Windows x86/x64 apps on Linux ARM64 and even the ability ro enjoy many Windows games on ARM64 Linux devices like the System76 Thelio Astra...

Cloudflare Makes Open-Source The Rust Code To Tokio-Quiche

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 22:55
Cloudflare announced today they have open-sourced the code to Tokio-Quiche as their async QUIC library that combines their previously-open-sourced Quiche QUIC implementation with Rust's Tokio async runtime...

RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 22:12
Last week Mesa 26.0-devel enabled the ACO back-end by default within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for all supported Radeon graphics cards by this open-source Linux driver. This move was done in the name of better performance, faster shader compilation times, and ACO being all-around better than the AMDGPU LLVM back-end these days for both OpenGL and Vulkan use. It was also noted that RadeonSI has "slightly better" viewperf performance with NIR+ACO than using the AMDGPU LLVM back-end. Curious about that SPECViewPerf impact, here are some benchmarks with the recently released AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card...

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