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W3C Posts First Public Working Drafts For WebGPU, WebGPU Shading Language

Phoronix - Wed, 05/19/2021 - 08:22
WebGPU as a next-gen web standard for accelerated graphics and compute is stepping closer to reality with the first public working drafts having been published...

Android 12 Beta Published With Performance Enhancements, Overhauled UI

Phoronix - Wed, 05/19/2021 - 03:27
Google used their Google I/O conference today to introduce the first beta of the upcoming Android 12 mobile operating system...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now "100%-1000% Faster" For Many Scenarios

Phoronix - Wed, 05/19/2021 - 02:58
Mike Blumenkrantz working under contract for Valve on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation continues making remarkable progress on this Mesa code...

KernelShark 2.0 Released For Continuing To Visualize Linux Traces

Phoronix - Wed, 05/19/2021 - 01:54
Two years after KernelShark 1.0 for visualizing the Linux kernel's "trace-cmd" tracing, KernelShark 2.0 has now been realized...

NVIDIA 465.31 Linux Driver Released With RTX 3050 Series Laptop Support

Phoronix - Tue, 05/18/2021 - 23:55
While last week the NVIDIA 460.80 Linux driver was released with adding support for the RTX 3050 / RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPUs, today the NVIDIA 465.31 Linux driver debuted for officially bringing these new Ampere GPUs to this newer driver branch...

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