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GeForce RTX SUPER Linux Compute Performance - 18 GPU NVIDIA OpenCL Comparison

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 00:21
Last week we began our belated NVIDIA GeForce RTX SUPER benchmarking by looking at the RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER Linux gaming performance in a 26-way graphics card comparison. For those more interested in the RTX SUPER graphics cards for their OpenCL compute performance potential, these benchmarks today are for you.

Intel's Inaugural Release Of OpenVKL Ties Into Their Promising oneAPI Rendering Toolkit

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 21:46
While announced some months ago, today in-step with the OSPray 2.0 Alpha ray-tracing release is the inaugural development release of the Open Volume Kernel Library (OpenVKL)...

Intel Sends Out Initial USB 4.0 Support For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 21:00
Intel open-source engineers have sent out their initial patches wiring up USB 4.0 support for the Linux kernel...

Significant Performance & Perf-Per-Watt Gains Coming For Intel CPUs On Linux Schedutil

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 19:03
Sadly not making it for the just-closed Linux 5.4 merge window but hopefully something we could see in Linux 5.5 is recent patches on "frequency invariance" in optimizing the Schedutil frequency scaling governor that will really benefit Intel CPUs and improve their performance by double digits...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.0.1 Available Along With Several New/Updated Test Profiles

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 18:36
As a minor update following last month's Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 release, version 9.0.1 is now available and also for all PTS users are a number of new/updated test profiles via OpenBenchmarking.org...

Steam, Open-Source Intel & Ryzen 3000 / EPYC's Continued Domination Rocked September

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 18:05
It was another busy September on Phoronix with 298 original Linux/open-source news articles and 22 featured articles / hardware reviews written by your's truly. There was an interesting combination of both hardware and software happenings over the past month, so here is your convenient recap...

Unofficial Radeon ROCm Packages Re-Enable APU Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 17:55
Over a year ago the AMD APU support in the Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) stack was quietly removed and has yet to be re-enabled in the upstream ROCm packages. But should you be wanting to use ROCm for their compute APIs or OpenCL on APUs, unofficial Ubuntu packages are now available to provide this capability...

Intel's OSPray 2.0 Enters Alpha With Many Changes For This Ray-Tracing Engine

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 17:43
Ahead of the oneAPI beta expected this quarter, Intel's OSPray ray-tracing engine that is set to be part of the oneAPI rendering tool-kit is embarking on its next major release...

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