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NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU Workstation Performance For Blender 4.3

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 02:39
With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes.

OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 00:09
In development for several years has been the OpenVPN DCO Linux kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to provide for much faster virtual private networking (VPN) performance. It's looking like the lengthy review process on OpenVPN DCO is about wrapping up and leaving hope that it will be ready to premiere in next year's Linux 6.14 kernel...

Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 23:53
As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today...

AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 23:27
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 is out today as the newest official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release for Linux systems...

Fedora 42 Looking To Package Intel SGX Software Stack

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 21:48
Fedora stakeholders are evaluating supporting an Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) software stack with next year's Fedora 42 release...

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