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Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2024 - 22:40
With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations. Thus a well-rounded look at the single Xeon 6980P performance compared to other single and dual socket Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server processors.

Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2024 - 21:51
Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to propose code changes. But Intel has now decided to make these projects more like traditional open-source projects and welcoming community contributions -- including from different hardware vendors...

KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2024 - 18:58
KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...

A Few Intel Xe2 Graphics Tuning Updates Found In Linux 6.12-rc2

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2024 - 18:43
Merged as part of last week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver fixes for Linux 6.12-rc2 are a few performance tuning updates for Intel Xe2 graphics to benefit the recently released Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops...

LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2024 - 18:19
While there is the open-source MoltenVK project that implements the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers on iOS/macOS, the 3D graphics consulting firm LunarG is exploring the possibility of implementing Vulkan to Metal translation using Mesa...

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