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Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - 5 hodin 56 min zpět
Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

Uniwill Laptop Driver Set To Premiere In Linux 6.19 Kernel

Phoronix - 6 hodin 13 min zpět
For the past several months a Uniwill laptop driver for the Linux kernel has been in development to expose extra platform capabilities for laptops manufactured by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM manufacturer. Assuming no last minute issues, this driver is now set to premiere in Linux 6.19 for helping Uniwill laptops and hardware from other brands relying on Uniwill as the device manufacturer...

Intel LASS Feature Looks Like It Will Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 20:43
Intel's LASS functionality was queued today into tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" Git branch. With LASS now making it into a TIP branch, it looks like it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds...

Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 17:20
It's the Blender 5.0 release day! Blender 5.0 is a big step forward for this open-source 3D modeling software with better Vulkan viewport support across different GPUs/drivers, HDR support when using Vulkan and Wayland on Linux, and other very nice refinements for this popular cross-platform software package...

AMD ROCm 7.1 vs. RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp With The Radeon AI PRO R9700

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 16:45
In the past we have seen Llama.cpp with Vulkan outperforming AMD's ROCm compute stack in some of the large language model (LLM) AI benchmarks. Curious if anything has changed given the recent ROCm 7.1 release, I ran some benchmarks of an up-to-date Llama.cpp using the AMD ROCm back-end compared to the Vulkan back-end with the latest RADV driver. For this round of testing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card was used.

NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 16:10
In addition to the RADV driver status update shared recently in Vienna at XDC2025, there was also a presentation on the current status of the NVK driver as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa that currently targets the Nouveau kernel driver and the Rust-based Nova kernel driver in the future...

Qualcomm Updates AI Accelerator Firmware To Fix Power / Performance Issue

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 15:50
Qualcomm upstreamed new Cloud AI 100 "AIC100" firmware today to linux-firmware.git to fix a rather significant power/performance issue for these AI accelerators...

Python Developers Looking At Introducing The Rust Programming Language In CPython

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 12:29
A proposal has been raised by two CPython core developers to introduce the Rust programming language to CPython. Initially the focus is on allowing Rust to be used for developing optional extension modules for CPython but ultimately their goal is for Rust to become a hard dependency of CPython and used throughout its codebase...

SUSE's Agama 18 OS Installer Released - i586 Support Dropped

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 12:17
SUSE developers working on their modern Agama operating system installer used by SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and openSUSE is out with a new release. With Agama 18 they have officially dropped support for 32-bit / i586 processors...

The State Of The AMD RADV Vulkan Driver In Late 2025

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 12:08
In addition to talking about the Valve-backed open-source driver work for old AMD Radeon GPUs, Timur Kristóf also presented at the XDC2025 conference on the state of the RADV Vulkan driver. Timur was joined by Daniel Schürmann to talk about the great Linux gaming experience now possible on the RADV driver with the work done by Valve, AMD, Red Hat, Google, and the open-source community. RADV ray-tracing is much better today than in the past, the ACO compiler back-end has turned out very well, and RADV is all-around a great example of an open-source Vulkan API driver...

MLPerf Client 1.5 Introduces Experimental Linux Support

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 11:53
MLPerf Client as MLCommons' machine language inferencing benchmark for client form factors / PCs now has a Linux build. MLPerf Client 1.5 was released yesterday with an experimental Linux build but for now at least is not nearly as full-featured as this AI benchmark on Windows and macOS...

OpenZFS 2.4 Squeezes In Some Last Minute Improvements

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 2:48
Following OpenZFS 2.4-rc3 from nearly one month ago is now a fourth release candidate for the upcoming OpenZFS 2.4. A few more features and improvements have been squeezed into this release in nearing the stable milestone...

GIMP 3.2 RC1 Brings More UI/UX Improvements, Proper SVG Export

Phoronix - 18. Listopad 2025 - 2:26
Last year GIMP developers expressed a goal of releasing GIMP 3.2 within one year of GIMP 3.0. With GIMP 3.0 having released in March, it looks like their GIMP 3.2 release goal will become a reality with the GIMP 3.2-RC1 debuting today...

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 Brings Build Fixes For Google Cloud & Azure, Base Repository Changes

Phoronix - 17. Listopad 2025 - 23:34
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 is available today for testing as this leading BSD operating system works toward the stable release in early December...

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released

Phoronix - 17. Listopad 2025 - 22:15
At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...

systemd 259-rc1 Released With Musl libc Support, New run0 "Empower" Mode

Phoronix - 17. Listopad 2025 - 21:26
Released a short time ago was systemd 259-rc1 as the first test release toward this next version of this dominant Linux init system and service manager...

Git 2.52 Released With More Preparations Toward Git 3.0

Phoronix - 17. Listopad 2025 - 20:51
Git 2.52 is out today as the newest feature release of this distributed revision control system and in working toward Git 3.0 that will hopefully release by the end of 2026...

SUSE Developer Working To Reimplement SSH Using The Zig Programming Language

Phoronix - 17. Listopad 2025 - 17:46
SUSE engineer Lucas Mülling is leading an effort to work on implementing SSH within the Zig programming language, a popular language for robust, optimal, and reusable software...

VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support

Phoronix - 17. Listopad 2025 - 16:56
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve just announced VKD3D-Proton 3.0 as a major update to this Direct3D 12 implementation atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

Updated LLVM/Clang Compiler Enables AVX 10.2 & APX For Intel Nova Lake

Phoronix - 17. Listopad 2025 - 16:42
Last month when the LLVM/Clang 22 compiler merged support for Intel Nova Lake with the "-march=novalake" target there was no mentions of AVX10 or Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) support. But last week Intel published a new programming reference manual where they confirmed AVX 10.2 and APX for Nova Lake. Now that it's official, Intel compiler engineers are updating the LLVM/Clang (and GCC) compiler support to reflect these ISA additions...
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