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NVIDIA Promotes Their Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 03:23
It's been a wild two years since NVIDIA began publishing an open-source Linux GPU kernel driver for Turing GPUs and newer. With the latest NVIDIA 555 Linux driver series that open-source kernel driver support is in great shape and NVIDIA today is out with a lengthy blog post promoting it...

RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 23:50
Last week with delivering a number of AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan ray-tracing benchmarks under Linux with the current drivers and using the new "Breaking Limit" benchmark, the question was raised how well does AMD's official "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver handle ray-tracing these days compared to the more popular Mesa RADV Vulkan driver used commonly by Linux gamers and as the default driver on most Linux distributions. Here is a fresh look at the RADV versus AMDVLK Vulkan performance on Linux with a focus on ray-tracing performance.

AMD Core Performance Boost & Fast CPPC Land In Linux 6.11, Intel Lunar Lake Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 21:55
The power management updates have been merged for Linux 6.11 that include some nice improvements for Intel and AMD processors...

spectre_bhi=vmexit Mitigation Merged For Linux 6.11 Cloud Use

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 20:41
The "x86/bugs" code has been merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel that is just three patches this go around but includes a new Spectre BHI mitigation option...

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