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AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Officially Announced

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 21:00
The embargo is over! We finally can share details on the exciting Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards powered by RDNA4 that will be available from Internet retailers next week.

There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 21:00
AMD has been investing a lot into the ROCm compute stack to make it a more formidable contender against the NVIDIA CUDA software ecosystem. From better documentation and improved application/API coverage to expanding their range of supported AMD GPUs, there's been a lot going on. So with this morning's much anticipated Radeon RX 9070 series launch announcement ahead of product availability next week, you are probably wondering about Radeon RX 9000 series support for ROCm too... Here's what I know so far...

AMD Engineer Talks Up Vulkan/SPIR-V As Part Of Their MLIR-Based Unified AI Software Play

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 20:02
An AMD engineer presented earlier this month at the Vulkanised 2025 conference in Cambridge (UK) around the work they are pursuing for AI using the MLIR intermediate representation, IREE, and the role that Vulkan/SPIR-V can play for AI acceleration across AMD's wares as well as other hardware...

GCC 15.1 Compiler Nears Release As Bugs Whittled Away

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 19:28
Current GNU Compiler Collection release manager Richard Biener of SUSE provided an update concerning the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...

RADV Driver Expands Use Of Performance-Helping DCC Fast Clears On RDNA3 GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 19:20
Just ahead of the AMD RDNA4 GPUs launching, the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has expanded a performance optimization technique for existing RDNA3 graphics processors...

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 Released With Strix Halo Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 18:57
When seeing a new AMDVLK release was just tagged on GitHub and just a few hours to go until the Radeon RX 9070 series announcement, I was hoping it was going to be a new driver officially rolling out their new RDNA4 GPU support. Today's AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 driver was not for officially introducing RDNA4 but does bring Strix Halo support and other improvements...

Linux Problem-Solving Scenarios: Real-World Challenges & Solutions

Tecmint - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 14:39
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Linux is a powerful and reliable operating system, but even seasoned users encounter unexpected problems. Whether it’s a deleted file,

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Intel Posts Linux Kernel Patches For Supporting APX - Advanced Performance Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 04:40
Intel initially detailed Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) back in mid-2023 as extensions to double the number of general purpose registers and add other performance features. In the time since they have done a lot preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers for the new APX ISA features while finally today they sent out an initial set of patches for preparing the Linux kernel for APX processors...

EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 03:44
In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles...

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