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Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes

Phoronix - Tue, 03/24/2026 - 21:25
Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked...

Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Tue, 03/24/2026 - 21:11
Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit...

Linux 7.1 To Overcome Reporting Limitation For Multiple Batteries Per HID Device

Phoronix - Tue, 03/24/2026 - 19:00
A limitation affecting various gaming headsets, graphic tablets, wireless earbuds, multi-device receivers and more with Linux has been not being able to report multiple batteries per HID device. After patches were proposed last year for dealing with the increasingly common scenario these days of having multiple batteries per device, the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is set to address this limitation...

OpenBLAS 0.3.32 Brings Improved Detection Of Newer Intel CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 03/24/2026 - 18:27
OpenBLAS 0.3.32 is now available for this optimized open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library. Notable with the OpenBLAS 0.3.32 release is improving CPU auto-detection for newer Intel processors...

Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172

Phoronix - Tue, 03/24/2026 - 18:10
Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new "RDNA 4m" branding. It's part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new "4m" branding. In follow-up commits they made further ISA changes distinguishing it from existing RDNA 3 GPUs. Now there are two more RDNA 4m targets being added...

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