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GCC 11 Ending Feature Development In One Month

Phoronix - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 02:42
The GNU Compiler Collection 11 (GCC 11) will be ending stage one development in mid-November to get the release process underway...

Intel Core i7 1165G7 "Tiger Lake" Linux Performance With The Dell XPS 13 9310

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 22:55
Here are our initial benchmarks of Intel Tiger Lake on Ubuntu Linux via the premium Core i7 1165G7 processor. This also appears to be the first public benchmarks of the new Dell XPS 13 9310 laptop that just-launched as the refreshed XPS notebook for Tiger Lake and with Intel EVO certification.

Intel Compute Runtime 20.41.18123 Flips On OpenCL 3.0 For All Hardware Back To Broadwell

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 20:28
Intel issued a notable open-source Compute Runtime stack update today that provides OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for the company's graphics processors from Xe/Gen12 graphics back through Gen8 Broadwell hardware...

AMD Delivers Many Fixes For Polaris GPUs On Linux - Finally Enables ZeroRPM Fan Mode

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 18:34
It seems AMD's Linux graphics driver team is firing with precision on all cylinders these days. Not only have they been working on timely support for the Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA 2" / "Big Navi" Linux driver support ahead of the official launch and have the initial code already upstreamed in Linux 5.9, but they've even been going back with a number of fixes for older graphics processors...

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