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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 / RTX 4090 Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 02:00
Recently we finally received the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards for Linux testing from NVIDIA. For those that have been eager to see how the RTX 40 series hardware performs under Linux, here are my initial Linux gaming benchmarks featuring a variety of Linux native titles as well as with Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux atop Proton + DXVK/VKD3D-Proton. The GeForce RTX 4080/4090 Linux performance is compared against a variety of other graphics cards including the new Radeon RX 7900 XTX with its open-source upstream Linux driver support.

AMD GPUOpen FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2 Published

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 01:00
AMD's GPUOpen team has published the source code for their FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2 update. This update brings improved image quality for more cases, integration enhancements, a new debug API checker, and other refinements over the earlier FSR2 code...

Vulkan 1.3.241 Released With Another Extension To Help VKD3D / Direct3D 12 Emulation

Phoronix - Thu, 02/16/2023 - 23:28
Vulkan 1.3.241 was published today with a range of fixes and clarifications, cleaning up of the XML schema, and also introducing three new Vulkan extensions...

AMD P-State EPP Submitted For Linux 6.3 To Improve CPU Performance/Power

Phoronix - Thu, 02/16/2023 - 22:00
The ACPI, thermal, and power management changes for Linux 6.3 have been submitted early due to traveling next week by ACPI/PM maintainer Rafael Wysocki. Most significant with the Linux 6.3 power management updates is adding of the AMD P-State Energy Preference Performance (EPP) mode for helping to deliver better performance and power efficiency for modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC systems on Linux...

Linux Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization "KASLR" For RISC-V

Phoronix - Thu, 02/16/2023 - 20:27
While there has been much work on the Linux kernel's RISC-V CPU architecture support, a feature not tackled until now has been the Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR) support for randomizing the kernel mapping to enhance system security...

Patches Posted For Enabling WiFi/Bluetooth With The Once Interesting MIPS Creator CI20

Phoronix - Thu, 02/16/2023 - 19:44
These days the MIPS architecture is dead but eight years ago when the Raspberry Pi, the PandaBoard, and other early Arm single board computers were enjoying the limelight, Imagination Technologies decided to release the Creator CI20 MIPS SBC. It's been years since hearing of the CI20 or dusting off my CI20, but a new patch series this week tries to get the mainline Linux kernel to enjoy working WiFi and Bluetooth for this MIPS single board computer...

Fedora Planning Ahead For The Next 5 Years

Phoronix - Thu, 02/16/2023 - 19:27
The Fedora Project has been working on drafting its strategic plan to help shape the Linux distribution over the next five years. A draft of the plan written up by the Fedora Council has been published and is currently seeking community feedback on their road-map planning...

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