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Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression

Phoronix - Tue, 06/10/2025 - 23:07
Along with releasing Linux 6.14.11 today to end-of-life the Linux 6.14 kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 6.15.2 as the newest stable point release. There is a notable fix here for the CPU idle power regressing on some systems since moving to Linux 6.15...

DXVK 2.6.2 Released For Direct3D On Vulkan

Phoronix - Tue, 06/10/2025 - 22:25
DXVK 2.6.2 was released this morning as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation. DXVK continues to be most notably used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for running countless Windows games well on Linux...

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux GPU Compute Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 06/10/2025 - 20:00
Following last week's AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux graphics/gaming review for launch day, today's article is providing an initial look at the GPU compute performance for this new RDNA4-powered ~$349 graphics card on Linux with ROCm 6.4.1.

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