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Wayland's Weston 11.0 Released With HDR Display & Multi-GPU Preparations

Phoronix - Fri, 09/23/2022 - 00:30
Weston, the reference compositor to Wayland, is out today with a big feature update. Most exciting is preparation work for better supporting HDR monitors moving forward as well as preparing for multi-GPU and multi-back-end use-cases...

Blender 3.3 AMD Radeon HIP vs. NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 23:40
Earlier this month Blender 3.3 released and in addition to introducing an Intel oneAPI back-end, it's notable for bringing improvements to the AMD HIP back-end for Radeon GPUs. Significant on the AMD side is extending GPU support back to GFX9/Vega. Thus it's a good time for a fresh round of benchmarking for showing how the AMD Radeon HIP performance against that of NVIDIA's existing CUDA and OptiX back-ends.

Fwupd 1.8.5 Supports More USB4 Docks, New AMD SMU Firmware Version Plugin

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 22:23
Fwupd 1.8.5 is out today for continuing to improve the firmware updating experience on Linux systems in conjunction with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Intel Gallium3D "Iris" Driver Changes Merged For Rusticl's OpenCL 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 18:48
While Intel's Compute-Runtime stack is fully open-source and already provides OpenCL 3.0 support for recent generations of Intel graphics under Linux, it looks like the recently-merged "Rusticl" Rust OpenCL implementation in Mesa will soon be working too on Intel graphics hardware as an alternative OpenCL 3.0 implementation...

Microsoft Speeds Up Mesa VA-API Video Acceleration For FFmpeg

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 18:00
A Microsoft engineer has landed an improvement to the Mesa Gallium3D Video Acceleration "VA" state tracker that can allow for faster video processing times and greater GPU utilization...

Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.5 With More Speedups & Memory Optimizations

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 17:33
Google engineers on Wednesday released AOM-AV1 3.5 as the newest version of their open-source AV1 video encoder. With AOM-AV1 3.5 comes yet more performance improvements as well as memory optimizations...

Debian 12 "Bookworm" Installer Alpha 1 Released

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 17:16
The first alpha release of the Debian Installer to be used by Debian 12 "Bookworm" is now available for early testing...

Mesa's Turnip Now Advertises Vulkan 1.3 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 17:02
Turnip as the Mesa Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics is now able to support Vulkan 1.3...

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