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Radeon RX 6800 Series Linux Performance Nearly Three Months After Launch

Phoronix - Wed, 02/03/2021 - 00:00
Given the daily progress and changes made to the open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel driver and the Mesa drivers providing the open-source OpenGL (RadeonSI) and Vulkan (RADV) support, here is a look at how the Radeon RX 6800 series performance is currently for the latest Linux graphics driver code compared to the performance seen back on the November launch day for the Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT graphics cards.

Ubuntu Core 20 Released For IoT/Embedded Linux Use-Cases

Phoronix - Tue, 02/02/2021 - 21:47
Canonical today is shipping Ubuntu Core 20 as their minimal, containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS focused on IoT and embedded uses...

Mesa Vulkan Drivers Get A Common Dispatch Framework For Better Code Sharing

Phoronix - Tue, 02/02/2021 - 21:00
Mesa 21.1 has merged a common dispatch framework for use by Vulkan drivers to allow for better code sharing and the possibility of some Vulkan extensions to be more easily supported across all drivers...

Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1 Released For Open-Source Automated Benchmarking

Phoronix - Tue, 02/02/2021 - 20:20
Released last month was Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 while now it's been succeeded by Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1 as a point release to this quarter's stable series...

Intel Graphics Driver Low-Latency Scheduling Revived For A Smoother UX

Phoronix - Tue, 02/02/2021 - 19:22
For the better part of a year now we've seen patches for Intel's kernel graphics driver working on fair low-latency scheduling that in part has been inspired by the design of BFS/MuQSS. While it's too late for seeing the work land with Linux 5.12, the latest batch of 57 patches were sent out this week...

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