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AMD ROCm Open-Source Stack Coming To Xilinx FPGAs

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 03:48
Now here is some darn interesting software news from SC20... AMD, which is in the process of acquiring Xilinx, is bringing the Radeon Open eCosystem "ROCm" stack to Xilinx hardware...

Radeon RX 6800 Series Has Excellent ROCm-Based OpenCL Performance On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 01:00
While Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) support wasn't a focus for the initial Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" graphics cards by AMD engineers, that is fortunately changing for both the RX 5000/6000 series moving forward. With the Radeon RX 6800 series there is at-launch support available with working OpenCL provided by the "ROCr" (runtime) path in their packaged driver. Now that we have looked at the Radeon RX 6800 Linux gaming performance here are some initial OpenCL compute benchmarks between NVIDIA and AMD Radeon on Linux.

Radeon Software for Linux 20.45 Driver Released With RX 6800 Series Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 00:08
Radeon Software for Linux 20.45 is now available as the Radeon RX 6800 series launch driver for Linux systems...

AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 11/18/2020 - 22:00
Today is the big day: Big Navi is shipping! This also means we can talk at length finally about the Linux support and performance for the Radeon RX 6800 series and how well they perform for Linux gaming. Here is a look at the Linux driver state for these initial RDNA 2 graphics cards and their performance capabilities with the multiple different open-source driver stacks available.

Qt Design Studio 2.0 Beta Released For Quickly + Easily Designing UIs

Phoronix - Wed, 11/18/2020 - 21:58
The Qt Company has released their public beta of the forthcoming Qt Design Studio 2.0, their software for quickly and easily designing user interfaces with an emphasis on UI design for non-programmers...

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