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AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (252+ words) AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a…...
ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6
15+ hour, 40+ min ago (408+ words) Merged today was another round of platform-drivers-x86 changes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. There are bug fixes plus some new hardware support additions that make this merge notable. Due to the new hardware support amounting to just device IDs and…...
Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 With 32GB GDDR6 Video Memory
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (386+ words) Alongside announcing the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake parts with vPro for commercial PCs and the Xeon 600 workstation processors, Intel finally announced their professional "big Battlemage" BMG-G31 graphics card with the Arc Pro B70 as well as the Arc…...
Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (304+ words) With the recent Fedora 44 beta release, Mesa 25.3 graphics drivers were in use rather than the newest Mesa 26.0 series. The good news is that there is now approval for getting Mesa 26.0 drivers to land in time for next month's official Fedora…...
Unvanquished 0.56 Released With More Renderer Improvements, OpenMP Added To Engine
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (267+ words) Unvanquished 0.56 Released With More Renderer Improvements, OpenMP Added To Engine'Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Unvanquished 0.56 Released With More Renderer Improvements, OpenMP Added To Engine Michael Larabel is the…...
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (184+ words) Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on…...
Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (356+ words) Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes'Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes…...
Linux 7.1 To Overcome Reporting Limitation For Multiple Batteries Per HID Device
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (405+ words) A limitation affecting various gaming headsets, graphic tablets, wireless earbuds, multi-device receivers and more with Linux has been not being able to report multiple batteries per HID device. After patches were proposed last year for dealing with the increasingly common…...
Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (407+ words) Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new "RDNA 4m" branding. It's part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new "4m" branding. In follow-up commits they…...
AMD Posts Latest "pghot" Code For Overhauling Linux Hot Page Tracking & Promotion
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (353+ words) One of the core Linux infrastructure improvements that AMD engineers have been working on recently is pghot as a hot-page tracking and promotion subsystem. This proposed addition to the Linux kernel could be quite beneficial especially for those using modern…...