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KDE Plasma 5.20 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 23:10
If GNOME 3.38 isn't your cup of tea, you may be interested in trying out the beta of the forthcoming KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop...

NVIDIA 455.23.04 Linux Beta Released With GeForce RTX 3080/3090 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 21:42
NVIDIA has once again managed to provide launch-day Linux driver support for their next-generation graphics processors. Today the NVIDIA 455.23.04 beta driver is shipping for Linux support with the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 "Ampere" graphics cards...

RADV's "ACO" Shader Backend Still Pursuing RadeonSI, Early Work On RDNA 2

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 21:09
Valve developer Timur Kristóf who has been spending the past year working on the AMD Compiler "ACO" back-end for the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" as well as beginning to port this shader compiler back-end to RadeonSI Gallium3D. This alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end has made incredible progress over the past year -- enough so that it's been the default for Mesa's RADV driver. During XDC2020 Day 2, Timur provided an update on ACO...

Intel Releases HAXM 7.6.5 Execution Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 18:56
Intel has debuted a new version of HAXM, its Hardware-Accelerated Execution Manager that serves as an accelerator for the Android Emulator and QEMU via Intel VT enabled CPUs...

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