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Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against NVIDIA RTX & AMD Radeon AI PRO

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 01:00
Last week after receiving the Intel Arc Pro B70 review hardware I began with some benchmarks looking at how the Arc Pro B70 compared to existing Intel GPUs on Linux with their fully open-source driver stack. Today's article features the latest Arc Pro B70 benchmarks under Linux in looking at how the performance and value compares to other NVIDIA RTX and AMD Radeon (AI) PRO workstation graphics cards in the lab.

Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 04/15/2026 - 22:24
Eric Engestrom stepped up again to serve as Mesa release manager for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 feature release. Mesa 26.1-rc1 was just released in kicking off the weekly release candidate dance until Mesa 26.1 stable is ready for debut in May...

Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages

Phoronix - Wed, 04/15/2026 - 22:05
A change proposal has been filed to build x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level packages alongside the existing x86_64-v1 packages for Fedora Linux...

Sched QoS For Linux Aims To Improve Scheduling & Inspired In Part By Apple's QoS Classes

Phoronix - Wed, 04/15/2026 - 21:18
Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based in part on Apple's quality of service classes used by iOS for classifying software as user interactive, user initiative, utility, or background tasks...

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