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Proton 8.0-3 Released With More Windows Games Running On Linux, Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 04:14
Proton 8.0-3 is rolling out on Steam that powers Steam Play to enjoy the latest Windows games on Linux. Proton 8.0-3 brings many fixes and gets more Windows games now running gracefully on Linux desktop systems as well as the Steam Deck...

GPU VA Manager To Land In Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 02:33
The DRM subsystem is slated to pickup a GPU Virtual Address "VA" Manager with the Linux 6.6 kernel that is motivated by work around Vulkan sparse memory binding requirements...

Apple M2 On Linux Performance Against AMD Zen 4 Mobile SoCs

Phoronix - Fri, 07/21/2023 - 23:33
The most common request from my recent ROG Ally benchmarking with the Ryzen Z1 SoC and also the Ryzen 7 7840U laptop SoC testing has been wanting to know how these Zen 4 mobile processors compete with Apple's M2 on Linux. Well, for those curious, here are some initial performance figures of the Apple M2 in a MacBook Air running Asahi Linux up against the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Ryzen 7 7840U SoCs on Linux.

Vulkan 1.3.258 Released With New Host Image Copy Extension, NVIDIA DGC Compute

Phoronix - Fri, 07/21/2023 - 21:52
Vulkan 1.3.258 was published today as the newest revision to this high performance graphics and compute API. There's many fixes with the last Vulkan spec update having been in early July but making this release more notable are two new extensions...

Mesa 23.1.4 Released With Intel Optimization Backported, New ANV Optimization Merged

Phoronix - Fri, 07/21/2023 - 21:37
First up the belated Mesa 23.1.4 is now available as the latest stable point release in the Mesa 23.1 series...

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