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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 21:00
Yesterday NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 5060 "Blackwell" graphics cards as their new, most affordable offering of the RTX 50 series. While the $299 GeForce RTX 5060 isn't shipping until next month, today the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB goes on sale for $379 USD and the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is also hitting Internet retailers today and starting out at $429 USD. I've been testing out the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB the past several days under Linux and have initial GPU compute benchmarks to share today.

Fedora 42 RISC-V Released - Builds For SiFive HiFive Premier P550 & Milk-V Megrez

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 20:35
Following yesterday's official Fedora 42 release, Fedora 42 for RISC-V is now available. The delay in the Fedora 42 RISC-V builds is due to RISC-V not yet being a primary architecture and the RISC-V builds being unofficial and produced by the Fedora community...

FFmpeg's FFV1 Vulkan Decoder Now 3x Faster On AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 18:43
Merged last month to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was an initial Vulkan-based decoder for FFV1 for the FF Video 1 lossless video coding format. Should you be interested in using this FFV1 decoder on AMD GPUs, there's a reported 3x performance improvement with the newest code...

More Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA4" Open-Source Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.1

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 18:30
Additional improvements for AMD GFX12 as the graphics engine IP of RDNA4 graphics with the Radeon RX 9000 series have been merged ahead of this quarter's Mesa 25.1 feature release...

Qt Ramps Up Its AI Coding Assistant Capabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 18:20
Over the past two years Qt has been working to embrace generative AI for enhanced coding capabilities within Qt Creator for Qt/QML/C++ applications. It started with GitHub Copilot integration and has been continuing well beyond that and today marks the debut of the Qt AI Assistant v0.9...

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