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AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Fri, 07/11/2025 - 21:48
With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popular GPUs. As it pertains to the newest AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics processors, the most exciting area with Mesa 25.2 are the Vulkan ray-tracing improvements. Here is a look at some of what to expect with the upcoming Mesa 25.2 performance for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics card on Linux.

Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Fri, 07/11/2025 - 20:46
Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...

Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Fri, 07/11/2025 - 20:10
Sent out on Thursday along with Intel's huge Xe driver pull request with new features was the drm-misc-next material for the week. Notable with the drm-misc-next code were actually a set of AMDGPU driver patches to enhance the debugging with the information exposed via the DebugFS interface...

RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/11/2025 - 18:48
OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Beginning today the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D upstreaming process has begun for introducing mesh shader support for this Radeon OpenGL driver...

QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database

Phoronix - Fri, 07/11/2025 - 18:35
QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-series database...

GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 07/11/2025 - 18:23
For those seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022...

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