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More Vulkan NCNN Inference Benchmarks On AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Under Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 09/28/2020 - 01:27
Given the interest from the RealSR-NCNN Vulkan benchmarks on various NVIDIA and AMD Radeon graphics cards looking at this neural network inference framework with the task of upscaling an image by 4x the resolution using RealSR, here are some more benchmarks of the NCNN framework accelerated by Vulkan on different GPUs under Ubuntu Linux...

Independent Developers Tackling Snapdragon 630/660 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 18:44
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 660 is approaching four years old and the Snapdragon 630 a bit younger than that, but these mobile phone SoCs may soon find renewed life on the upstream Linux kernel thanks to the work of community developers...

DP-HDMI2.1 Protocol Converter Support Being Tackled For Intel Linux Graphics

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 18:24
Patches sent out on Friday provide an initial DP-HDMI2.1 PCON implementation for the Intel Linux kernel graphics driver...

Virt-Manager 3.0 Released With UI Improvements, Cloud-Init Option

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 17:57
Virt-Manager 3.0 quietly got released a little more than one week ago...

What would a global open organization look like?

opensource.com - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 15:00

In the first article in this series, I presented four dimensions of globalization and explained how they relate to open organization principles. Then, in the second part, I reviewed a history of globalization, one based on Jeffrey D.


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After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 13:34
For those following the development of Zink as a software OpenGL driver built atop the Vulkan API, there are some new performance numbers to discuss this weekend...

KWinFT Projects Hit Beta Ahead Of Stable Releases Aligned With KDE Plasma 5.20

Phoronix - Sun, 09/27/2020 - 08:31
KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin focused on better Wayland support and other modernization efforts is approaching its first stable release next month around the same time as KDE Plasma 5.20...

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