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AMD Regression On Linux 5.11 Being Addressed By New CPUFreq Patches

Phoronix - Fri, 02/05/2021 - 03:58
The AMD "frequency invariance" saga with Linux 5.11 continues... While there was a patch to address the previously noted performance regression caused by the introduction of frequency invariance and seen when using the Schedutil governor, a new CPUFreq-side patch series has been proposed instead -- both of which are addressing the performance issue with this new kernel for AMD Zen 2 / Zen 3 systems...

Mesa 21.0 Has Many New Features Especially For Radeon Open-Source Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 02/05/2021 - 00:32
With Mesa 21.0 releasing soon here is a look at the new features for this quarter's release of these open-source Vulkan / OpenGL driver implementations.

More AMDGPU Patches For Linux 5.12 Point To First Sign Towards PCIe 5.0, FreeSync HDMI

Phoronix - Thu, 02/04/2021 - 22:29
Sent in today to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.12 kernel cycle were "fixes" but some interesting items worth noting in this batch...

Broadcom V3D Will See Slightly Higher Performance With Mesa 21.1

Phoronix - Thu, 02/04/2021 - 22:15
The open-source Broadcom graphics driver code most notably used by Raspberry Pi devices will be seeing at least slightly better performance come next quarter's Mesa 21.1 release...

VKD3D-Proton Working On Variable Rate Shading

Phoronix - Thu, 02/04/2021 - 18:36
In addition to VKD3D-Proton working on support for DXR ray-tracing another high profile Direct3D 12 feature being implemented on top of Vulkan is support for variable rate shading...

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