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Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:28
Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger "BMG G31" variant. This evening those patches were merged for Mesa 25.2 for what's rumored to be potentially the Arc B770 graphics cards to launch later in the year...

Trying Out The AMD Developer Cloud For Evaluating Instinct + ROCm

Phoronix - Mon, 06/16/2025 - 22:32
Last week alongside announcing the AMD Instinct MI350X/MI355X and the ROCm 7.0 software preview, AMD also introduced the AMD Developer Cloud as a new means for developers to easy try out Instinct accelerators with their own software and with the ROCm compute stack already setup. Having tried out prior AMD cloud compute environments, as soon as my email invite for the AMD Developer Cloud arrived I decided to give it a try.

Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues

Phoronix - Mon, 06/16/2025 - 21:46
Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programming language. For helping in determining different combinations of issues around compiler performance, the Rust team has started a survey to collect more information on the issues...

Linux Sensor Monitoring Coming For The ASUS ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI

Phoronix - Mon, 06/16/2025 - 20:55
For those interested in a high-end motherboard for AMD Ryzen 9000 / 8000 / 7000 series processors that is marketed for creators and equipped with high-end features, the ASUS ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI motherboard that retails for $500+ USD will soon see hardware monitoring support under Linux...

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