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GCC 11.1 RC Released, GCC 12 In Development On Trunk

Phoronix - Wed, 04/21/2021 - 00:25
The release candidate to GCC 11.1 as the first stable release of GCC 11 is now available for testing. If all goes well GCC 11.1.0 will officially debut next week while GCC 12 is now in development with their latest Git code...

Blender Planning Vulkan Support This Year, Other Exciting Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 23:11
Blender has an exciting year still ahead with a road-map they just published that does include Vulkan API support...

Khronos Ratifies KTX 2.0

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 21:00
Just one week after having published the provisional Vulkan Video extensions, The Khronos Group has another exciting announcement today in the form of ratifying KTX 2.0...

AMD Releases Radeon Software Linux Driver With Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 20:45
AMD Radeon graphics cards on Linux can finally enjoy Vulkan ray-tracing! AMD has published a new Radeon Software for Linux driver release that enables the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions for use with RDNA2 / Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards...

AMD Proposing Redesign For How Linux GPU Drivers Work - Explicit Fences Everywhere

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 20:26
Well known open-source AMD Linux graphics driver developer Marek Olšák published an initial proposal this week as "a redesign of how Linux graphics drivers work."..

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