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VKD3D-Proton Has Been Working On Emulating D3D12 Work Graphs, But The Tech Disappoints

Phoronix - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 02:34
Back in March for GDC, Microsoft excitingly announced the official releases of Direct3D 12 Work Graphs for "enabling new types of GPU autonomy" for allowing more rendering work to be offloaded to the GPU. While this greater GPU-driven rendering with Work Graphs has been talked up by Microsoft and other parties, Valve engineers working on VKD3D-Proton for implementing D3D12 over Vulkan have found the new Work Graphs functionality to not be as nearly captivating...

Intel & AMD Form An x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group

Phoronix - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 01:46
Intel and AMD have jointly announced the creation of an x86 ecosystem advisory group to bring together the two companies as well as other industry leaders -- both companies and individuals such as Linux creator Linus Torvalds...

Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler On 5th Gen EPYC

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 23:00
Last week when launching the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, on the same day AOCC 5.0 was quietly released as the newest version of AMD's Zen-focused compiler derived from LLVM/Clang. With not only adding AMD Zen 5 "znver5" support but also additional vectorization improvements and other performance optimizations, I was eager to run some benchmarks of AOCC 5.0 against the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers. Here are those initial benchmarks using dual AMD EPYC 9755 128-core Zen 5 processors.

Ubuntu 24.10 Developer Preview Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 21:42
Following last week's release of Ubuntu 24.10, today Canonical announced a developer preview of an Ubuntu 24.10 Linux build targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops...

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