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AMDGPU Performance In Linux 5.4 Is Now Faster With "Bulk Moves" Landed

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 07:42
Linux 5.4 is already exciting with its many new features and changes but was made even more so on Friday night with the honoring of the latest DRM fixes pull request that includes the "fix" of enabling LRU bulk moves for the AMDGPU DRM driver!..

DXVK 1.4.2 Released With Fix For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 05:48
DXVK 1.4.2 is out as another weekly update to this Direct3D 11 over Vulkan translation library used by Wine / Proton for accelerating Windows games on Linux...

It Looks Like HDMI FreeSync/VRR For Linux + Wayland Support Will Eventually Come For AMD

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2019 - 00:57
AMD provided an update on their Linux FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync support at this week's X.Org Developers Conference event in Montreal. There's good news both for HDMI and Wayland Linux users with Radeon graphics...

Blender 2.80 & LuxCoreRender Performance With NVIDIA RTX SUPER Comparison

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 23:11
Complementing the 18-way NVIDIA GPU compute comparison from earlier this week with now having our hands on the RTX 2060/2070/2080 SUPER graphics cards, this round of NVIDIA Linux testing is looking at the Blender 2.80 and LuxCoreRender 2.1/2.2 performance for these popular rendering programs that offer CUDA acceleration.

The ACO Radeon Compiler Alternative To AMDGPU LLVM Looks Good But Work Isn't Done Yet

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 21:46
In addition to Intel announcing their work on the new "IBC" compiler back-end for their OpenGL/Vulkan drivers, the developers working on the Radeon "ACO" in cooperation with Valve were presenting the latest work on their compiler back-end at this week's XDC 2019 event in Canada...

Logitech Gaming Keyboards Getting A New Driver With Linux 5.5

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 19:33
The Logitech G15 keyboards and related gaming keyboards from the company are seeing a new open-source driver queued ahead of the Linux 5.5 kernel cycle...

Linux Returns To Parallel CPU Microcode Updates To Reduce Cloud Disruption

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 19:12
Following the Spectre mitigations coming to light last year, the late microcode update process for CPUs was serialized. However, this has led to complaints from cloud vendors and other customers with large core count servers where downtime/disruptions need to be minimal. So now the CPU microcode update process is being parallelized again...

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