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DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 23:00
An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the AMD GPU...

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Performance Disappoints On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 20:40
While I have been very eager to test out the Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake series on Linux in part due to the new Xe2 integrated graphics, after several days of pushing a new Lunar Lake laptop on Linux the results have been very disappointing. Besides needing a very leading-edge software stack to enjoy the Xe2 accelerated graphics out-of-the-box, the performance currently is poor. It's a fraction of the Windows performance and currently falls behind the Meteor Lake graphics performance and in turn also being well behind the AMD RDNA3.5 competition with the Ryzen AI 300 series laptops.

Cpufreq_ext Being Worked On For BPF-Based CPU Frequency Scaling

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 19:49
The newly-merged sched_ext allows for the Linux kernel scheduler to be made more extensible by allowing BPF programs to be loaded to affect the kernel's scheduling behavior. There's now a similar take on CPU frequency scaling: cpufreq_ext. There's a "request for comments" patch series on cpufreq_ext for making extensible CPU frequency scaling algorithm adaptations with BPF...

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 18:44
With the third quarter drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source related content for the quarter. This quarter there's been more than 730 news articles and 50 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles all written by your's truly covering a range of areas...

FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 18:34
FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. With FFmpeg 7.1 the VVC video decoder has been promoted to stable, there are a number of Vulkan Video improvements, and an assortment of other exciting enhancements...

Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 18:25
Open-source developer Simon Ser has released Sway 1.10-rc1 as the newest feature release to this i3-inspired Wayland compositor. With Sway 1.10 there are many new features coming...

AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 Brings New Performance Optimizations & Pipeline Binaries

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 18:08
AMD today released AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 as their latest open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems prior to ending the quarter...

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