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Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2020 - 03:08
Here is an up-to-date look at how the very latest Mesa 20.1 Git performance is for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver both out-of-the-box and when enabling the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end alternative to AMDGPU LLVM. Plus there are benchmarks of the latest AMDVLK open-source AMD Vulkan driver and also when using AMDGPU-PRO's Vulkan packages that still rely upon AMD's proprietary shader compiler.

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2020 - 00:38
While the Debian 11 "Bullseye" code freeze isn't for another year, the second alpha release of the Debian Installer to ultimately provide the installation process is now available...

Fedora Looking To Transition The RPM Database From Berkeley DB To SQLite

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 23:45
As a move ultimately for Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well, Red Hat developers working on Fedora are planning to transition the RPM database (RPMDB) away from the long-standing Berkeley DB to using SQLite...

Linux 5.7 Positioned To Retire ARM 32-bit KVM Virtualization Support

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 22:00
The upcoming Linux 5.7 kernel is preparing to bid farewell to KVM virtualization support on 32-bit ARM architectures...

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H Mobile Processor Announced For Top-End Laptop Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 21:20
AMD today announced the Ryzen 9 4900H as their new top-end Zen 2 mobile processor for notebooks...

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