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Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 02:30
Apple today announced the M1 Pro and M1 Max as their most powerful SoCs ever built by the company. The new chips feature up to a 10-core processor, 32-core GPU, and up to 64GB of unified memory...

Valve Launches "Steam Deck Verified" Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 02:15
Valve is introducing a Steam Deck Verified system for helping gamers find out what games have been verified to work well on their forthcoming AMD+Linux-powered handheld game console...

VKD3D-Proton 2.5 Released With Experimental DXR 1.1, More Games working

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 00:04
VKD3D-Proton as Valve's Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation for Steam Play's Proton is out with a big feature update...

Ubuntu 21.10 Radeon Gaming With KDE Plasma vs. GNOME Shell + Wayland vs. X.Org

Phoronix - Mon, 10/18/2021 - 20:14
With last week's release of Ubuntu 21.10, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the Linux gaming performance on this new release while testing both the GNOME Shell 40 default desktop to that of its KDE Plasma 5.22 based option. Both the X.Org and Wayland sessions for KDE and GNOME were benchmarked for seeing how the Linux gaming performance compares with the Radeon open-source GPU driver stack.

Habana Labs For Linux 5.16 To Bring Peer-To-Peer Support With DMA-BUF

Phoronix - Mon, 10/18/2021 - 18:38
The drama around DMA-BUF code for the Habana Labs AI driver appears to be wrapping up with the Linux 5.16 cycle that is coming up...

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