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AMD Announces Ryzen PRO 8840 & PRO 8000G Series CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/16/2024 - 21:00
Following the launch of the Ryzen 8000G series processors earlier this year as well as the Ryzen 8840 series mobile processors, AMD has now announced the associated "PRO" parts for business customers.

Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton

Phoronix - Tue, 04/16/2024 - 18:46
In addition to Vulkan explicit sync under X11, another merge request hitting Mesa 24.1 overnight that's worth mentioning is the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver now supporting VK_EXT_image_compression_control...

Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11

Phoronix - Tue, 04/16/2024 - 18:38
At the start of April Mesa 24.1 saw Vulkan explicit sync support for Wayland implemented. Now hitting Mesa 24.1-devel today is Vulkan explicit sync support for X11/X.Org...

Native BHI Mitigation Performance Benchmarks On Core i9 14900K Under Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Tue, 04/16/2024 - 18:27
With the new security mitigation for the "Native BHI" Spectre vulnerability affecting even the recent Intel processors, a number of Phoronix readers have been curious about the performance impact of the mitigation. Over the past week I've been running some benchmarks on recent Intel CPUs to better look into any performance implications...

Khronos Releases OpenXR 1.1 For Cross-Platform AR/VR Development

Phoronix - Tue, 04/16/2024 - 17:55
The Khronos Group on Monday released OpenXR 1.1 as the latest version of this industry standard for open, cross-platform development for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) devices...

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