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Cyberpunk 2077 Can Run On Linux With Steam Play's Proton 5.13-4

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 05:06
The highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 game will run on Linux on launch day by means of Steam Play!..

Mesa 21.0 Begins Landing Optimizations For AMD Smart Access Memory

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 01:09
While AMD Smart Access Memory has already been supported under Linux for some time with its resizable BAR functionality, only now with all the excitement around the feature being promoted with the Ryzen 5000 series and Radeon RX 6000 series hardware is the Mesa driver code beginning to see some optimizations for it...

AMD Zen 3 Performance With The Initial "znver3" GCC Compiler Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/09/2020 - 23:00
Last week AMD published their Zen 3 support for GCC code compiler. That initial support, which has already been merged into GCC 11, is the initial support flipping on newly supported instructions but not yet offering any tuned scheduler model or other optimizations compared to the existing Zen 2 path. In any case, here is a look at the performance changes with building the open-source benchmarks under test with "znver3" compared to the prior Zen 2 and Zen 1 targets along with generic x86_64 and then also looking at the performance if catering the compiler targets for Intel's Skylake and Haswell processors.

The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Continue To Impress On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 12/09/2020 - 22:09
It's been just over one month since AMD launched the Ryzen 5000 series as the first processors part of the Zen 3 family. The Linux performance continues to be terrific with the Ryzen 5600X / 5800X / 5900X / 5950X parts in our continued benchmarking...

AMD Publishes RDNA 2 ISA Documentation

Phoronix - Wed, 12/09/2020 - 19:45
AMD has carried out a timely release of their RDNA 2 ISA documentation for those interested in working on any compiler support around these very latest graphics processors or working on other shader optimization approaches, etc...

SDL 2.0.14 Being Prepared With OS/2 Support, PS5 DualSense + Xbox Series X Controllers

Phoronix - Wed, 12/09/2020 - 19:38
A new SDL2 library release is being prepared for this widely-used, cross-platform abstraction layer popular with games for supporting a wide range of input devices / peripherals and other vast subsystem coverage in a portable manner...

Radeon SDMA Support Is Deemed Too Buggy That It's Dropped From Open-Source Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 12/09/2020 - 17:57
There have been many workarounds and changes to the SDMA (System DMA) copy support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver since the support was introduced years ago, but it's now been outright removed due to too many generations of AMD Radeon hardware having issues with it enabled...

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