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Ampere Announces Altra Max 128-Core Server Processor

Phoronix - Tue, 06/23/2020 - 21:00
Back in March Ampere Computing detailed their next-gen Altra ARM-based server CPU with up to 80 cores per socket. Today the company is revealing more roadmap details including the forthcoming Altra Max that offers 128 cores per socket.

Dell To Begin Shipping Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Their Latest XPS Developer Edition

Phoronix - Tue, 06/23/2020 - 20:06
Dell is announcing this morning that their latest XPS Developer Edition laptops are beginning to ship with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as the latest version of the popular desktop Linux distribution...

Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Tessellation Shader Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/23/2020 - 19:12
Mesa's TURNIP Vulkan driver for open-source Qualcomm Adreno support took another big step forward this week with the mainlining of tessellation shader support...

RADV Vulkan Driver Adds New Workaround For Path of Exile Game

Phoronix - Tue, 06/23/2020 - 18:55
A new tunable for the RADV driver is to disable bounds checking for dynamic buffer descriptors. The initial beneficiary of this driver workaround is for satisfying the Path of Exile role playing game running under Wine / Proton (Steam Play)...

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