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Mesa 20.2 Picks Up A New Disk Cache: TGSI-To-NIR Caching

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 04:47
Mesa 20.2-devel has a new cache in place for TTN...

A Quick Run With The FSGSBASE Patches On Intel + AMD

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 23:57
FSGSBASE patches for the Linux kernel have been available for years albeit not mainlined to date. However, thankfully, a Microsoft Linux developer has taken up the cause to get them upstreamed given the performance benefits they are even seeing. Here are some benchmarks of the Linux kernel patches for FSGSBASE on both Intel and AMD CPUs.

Epic Games Preparing Unreal Engine 5 For Debut In 2021 With Increased Photo-Realism

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 23:54
Epic Games today offered the first glimpse at Unreal Engine 5, their next-generation game engine they hope to have out in preview form in early 2021 and for its official release before the end of next year...

Radeon Rays 4.0 Released - Adds Vulkan While Dropping OpenCL, No Longer Open-Source

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 22:39
Continuing with AMD's relaunch of GPUOpen and introducing new software releases all week, out this morning is Radeon Rays 4.0. It takes another step forward while taking a step back in terms of no longer being open-source...

AMD Announces The Radeon Pro VII

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 21:16
AMD announced today the Radeon Pro VII workstation graphics card for $1899 USD and will begin shipping in June...

Upstream Linux Developers Against "-O3" Optimizing The Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 20:45
The upstream Linux kernel developers have come out against a proposal to begin using the "-O3" optimization level when compiling the open-source code-base with the GCC 10 compiler or newer...

BFloat16 Support About To Land Within LLVM

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 20:07
The LLVM compiler stack is about to merge its support for the BFloat16 floating-point format, including the BF16 C language support...

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