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RADV+ACO Lands FP16 Features - One Step Closer To Making ACO The Default

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 12:02
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver's ACO shader compiler back-end has merged its FP16 related bits and in turn putting the ACO back-end very close to being enabled by default for this open-source AMD Vulkan driver...

AMD Posts New AMDGPU Patches For UVD Video Decode For GCN 1.0

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 06:40
One of the main blockers from AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" GPUs achieving feature parity when using the newer AMDGPU DRM kernel driver rather than the older "Radeon" DRM kernel driver has been in regards to UVD video decoding. But in 2020 it looks like that might finally change...

Intel oneDNN 1.5 Released With Non-x86 CPU Support, Initial Xe Graphics Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 04:58
Intel's oneDNN 1.5 deep neural network library has been released that is part of their oneAPI initiative and formerly known as MKL-DNN and DNNL...

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