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AMD Linux Graphics No Longer Unusable For Blender Developers: 251 To 9 Seconds Speed-Up

Phoronix - Wed, 07/26/2023 - 02:45
Two weeks ago a bug report was opened for Mesa that when using Radeon RX 7900 XT or Radeon Pro WX 9100 graphics, Blender's Eevee shader node trees are unusably slow. A fix has now been merged in reducing that shader compilation time from around 251 seconds to now getting done in just about 9 seconds...

Intel Scores Another Nice Arc Graphics Boost On Linux For Summer 2023

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 23:19
Just days after covering a recent ~10% speed-up for the Intel Arc Graphics on Linux, another optimization has landed in Mesa 23.3-devel for further enhancing Intel's latest graphics wares with their open-source driver stack.

Per-Policy CPU Performance Boosting Proposed For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 20:52
For processors supporting CPU performance boosting with higher performance states available beyond the base states, Linux allows toggling the boosting on a per-CPU basis. However, a new patch proposed this week would allow per-policy performance boosting where capable...

AMD Begins Rolling Out Driver Patches For Next-Gen GPU IP Blocks

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 20:00
As part of AMD's recent Linux graphics driver development approach of enabling new GPU support gradually on a IP block-by-block basis rather than big monolithic patch series marked by colorful fishy codenames, it's worked out well for getting new hardware support rolling into the kernel early and without revealing any combined details on yet-to-be-released graphics processors. This week has seen some new IP block patches surface...

Loongson Binary Translation Slated For Linux 6.6 - Helping MIPS / x86 / ARM On LoongArch

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 18:22
Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) support for the Chinese LoongArch CPU architecture is slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle. Loongson Binary Translation aims to help speed-up and handle ARM / x86 / MIPS binary translation on LoongArch more efficiently with capable LoongArch processors...

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