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Trying Intel Kabylake Graphics With DRM-Next For Linux 4.13
After testing out AMDGPU's DRM-Next code for Linux 4.13, I moved on to seeing if there are any Kabylake graphics performance differences slated for the upcoming Linux 4.13 kernel cycle...
Intel Core i9 7900X Linux Benchmarks
Since the Intel Core-X Series were announced last month at Computex, I've been excited to see how well this high-end processor will perform under Linux... Linux enthusiasts have plenty of highly-threaded workloads such as compiling the Linux kernel, among other packages, and thus have been very excited by the potential of the Core i9 7900X with its ten cores plus Hyper Threading and sporting a 13.75MB cache. With finally having an X299 motherboard ready, here are my initial Ubuntu Linux benchmarks for the i9-7900X.
Wine-Staging 2.11 Brings NVAPI Improvements, PIE Support
Building off last week's Wine 2.11 update is now the adjoining Wine-Staging release that adds in various experimental patches for more widespread testing...
Collabora Poaches Former Mir Developer To Join Graphics Team
Collabora is strengthening their graphics development team with a former Canonical developer working on Mir who was laid off during the Ubuntu maker's recent restructuring...
Intel Core i7 7740X Benchmarks On Linux
Now with the motherboards having arrived, we can move on to our Intel Core-X Linux benchmarking. Here is an initial look at the Intel Core i7 7740X Kabylake-X processor.
NVIDIA Releases TensorRT 2; TensorRT 3 Being Prepped For Volta
NVIDIA has made their TensorRT 2 library publicly available today as the newest major update to their deep-learning inference optimizer and run-time...
AMDGPU-PRO 17.20 Emerges With Vega, ROCm Compute Support
Thanks to today's Radeon Vega Frontier Edition launch, AMD has released an updated AMDGPU-PRO Linux hybrid driver...
Test Driving AMDGPU's Performance With DRM-Next For Linux 4.13
With the Linux 4.13 merge window likely to open next week and the DRM-Next cutoff already having passed for new material that in turn wants to target 4.13, here are some initial benchmarks with a Polaris and Fiji graphics cards for this new AMDGPU DRM code.
GStreamer Adds NVDEC NVIDIA GPU Decoding Support
GStreamer now has a plug-in for supporting accelerated video decoding using NVIDIA's VDPAU-successor, NVDEC...
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Begins Shipping, Costs ~$1200 USD
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition has begun shipping today as the Vega-based compute card geared to go up against the Titan Xp and P100 accelerators for compute/workstation workloads. This is the first Vega GPU card to market, but will come at a hefty cost...
MATE Developers Are Considering Mir-Over-Wayland
MATE developer Martin Wimpress has shared that they are talking to Mir developers about how Mir could be used as a Wayland compositor...
Pitoiset Continues Optimizing Mesa's KHR_no_error For Dawn Of War 3
Valve developer Samuel Pitoiset appears quite motivated to see Dawn of War 3 running well under Linux with the RadeonSI driver stack...
A Simple Dive Into Vulkan Compute Programming
While Vulkan is most often talked about for being a high-performance graphics API, it also has integrated compute capabilities -- and in fact, may be the future of OpenCL -- and is quite capable for GPGPU computing. There are countless Vulkan graphics tutorials and code samples out there, but for those interested in just Vulkan for compute, a Phoronix reader pointed me to a new simple/easy project...
Raspberry Pi VC4 Driver Working To Reduce Overhead, Android Native Fence Support
Broadcom developer Eric Anholt has shared another weekly update concerning his summer 2017 hacking on the VC4 open-source driver stack that is most notably used by the Raspberry Pi...
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Linux Game CPU Core Scaling
After carrying out the P-State/CPUFreq governor comparison with a focus on OpenGL and Vulkan Linux games, next I ran some fresh numbers seeing how well modern OpenGL/Vulkan Linux games are scaling across multiple CPU cores.
Intel Kabylake OpenGL/Vulkan Performance With Serious Sam 3 BFE 2017 Update
This weekend I posted a comparison of OpenGL/Vulkan performance for Radeon and NVIDIA GPUs with Serious Sam 3: BFE now that it's updated to the Vulkan-enabled "Fusion" 2017 update. For those curious about the Intel HD Graphics gaming potential for this game, here are some results...
Huawei Continues Working On Protectable Memory Support For The Linux Kernel
Igor Stoppa of Huawei continues working on a new kernel feature to provide read-only protection for dynamic data...
Lumina 1.3 Desktop Environment Released
TrueOS-aligned Lumina Desktop Environment 1.3 is now available as the latest stable release for this Qt-powered desktop environment...
P-State/CPUFreq Governor Tests With Linux 4.12 For OpenGL/Vulkan Games
For those wondering about the impact on gaming of the different CPUFreq vs. P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers and their different governors, here are some fresh tests using an Intel Skylake CPU with Radeon RX Polaris graphics when using the latest Linux 4.12 kernel and Mesa 17.2-dev.
92 Patches Later: Experimental NIR Backend For RadeonSI
Nicolai Hähnle of AMD has posted his set of 92 patches for implementing an experimental NIR back-end within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
GNU Multiplayer Strategy Game Sees First Update In Three Years
GNU is home to a wide variety of free software projects, some more notable than others. One of the lesser known GNU projects is Motti, a "simple multiplayer strategy game."..
AES-128-CBC Support Coming To Fscrypt
AES-128-CBC support is coming to fscrypt, the generic file-system crypto code in the Linux kernel that's currently in use by F2FS and EXT4 for offering native file-system encryption support...
Freedreno Continues Stacking On New Features For Open-Source Adreno
Rob Clark continues doing great work on the Freedreno Gallium3D driver for open-source, reverse-engineered Qualcomm Adreno graphics as well as the related MSM DRM driver for display support with Snapdragon SoCs...
More AMD Stoney Ridge Code Lands In Coreboot
It looks like the first AMD-powered Chromebook might be getting closer to reality...
LLVM/Clang Picks Up Support For The Ananas Operating System
The LLVM Clang compiler toolchain now has mainline support for the Ananas platform...
AMD's Plans For ARB_gl_spirv Support In RadeonSI
Back in May we talked about ARB_gl_spirv / NIR Support Being Worked On For RadeonSI while now we have more details from AMD's Nicolai Hähnle regarding these plans...
AMD Still Planning For Zen Scheduler In LLVM 5.0
Back in March we reported about LLVM 5.0 anticipating better AMD Ryzen performance thanks to a proper scheduling model slated to land. But months later, AMD still hasn't produced the code...
Linux 4.12-rc7 Released: Final Might Come In One Week
Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 4.12-rc7 with what could be the final release candidate prior to declaring the stable Linux 4.12 kernel...
Serious Sam 3 - BFE: OpenGL vs. Vulkan With Fusion 2017 Update
On Friday marked Croteam's latest game update to their "Fusion" 2017 update, Serious Sam 3: BFE. Like the other Fusion 2017 game updates from Croteam, there are a number of engine-level updates and arguably most notable is the introduction of a Vulkan renderer. Here are some fresh NVIDIA/Radeon benchmarks of Serious Sam 3: BFE under OpenGL and Vulkan with this latest release.
Debian Warns Of Hyper Threading Issue With Intel Sky/Kaby Lake CPUs
The Debian project is warning Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake users to disable Hyper Threading (HT) on their CPUs due to a possible issue affecting those with out-of-date microcode...
An Early Look At Our 2017 Linux Laptop Survey Results So Far
On Friday we launched the 2017 Linux Laptop Survey and as of this morning we're at nearly 12,000 results so far (11,879 as of writing). While there's still more than one week left to fill in the survey, here's how things are looking so far...
XPad Updates, Google Rose Touchpad Support Heading To Linux 4.13
A fair amount of new device support and other improvements are getting ready for the Linux 4.13 kernel via the HID and input trees...
EXT4 Is Working On A "Large Directory" Option, Parallel Discards
It's looking like the EXT4 file-system updates for the upcoming Linux 4.13 cycle could be a bit more interesting this time around...
VP9 Added To VA-API's Encode Capabilities For FFmpeg
The latest Git code for FFmpeg now supports VA-API accelerated VP9 encoding...
Latte Dock Is Working On Wayland Support, New Features
Latte Dock, the desktop dock based on KDE's Plasma Framework and Qt, is preparing for their next release at the end of August...
FreeBSD 11.1 Beta 3
The third beta for the upcoming FreeBSD 11.1 is available for testing this weekend...
AMDGPU VRAM Improvements Could Help DiRT Rally, Dying Light
A patch series posted on Friday could help games suffering from visible video memory pressure when using the AMDGPU DRM driver...
ADATA SU800 128GB SSD On Linux
Needing to replace a failed hard drive in one of our server room benchmark systems, I decided to try out the ADATA SU800 as something new. It's an affordable SATA 3.0 SSD and in not trying out an ADATA SSD in a while, I decided to purchase this one and run some benchmarks on it prior to commissioning it to its new home.
Purism Librem 13 / 15 Laptops Hit GA Status
Purism has announced their privacy-minded Coreboot-friendly Librem laptops have reached a general availability state...
Ubuntu 17.10 Video Acceleration Progress, New Unity-Session Package
We recently reported on Ubuntu planning to finally ship video acceleration by default, at least for Intel hardware, and they have made progress in this area...
GNOME Music Should No Longer Be So Sluggish
Georges Stavracas' latest work on GNOME is making the GNOME Music player less slow...
System76 Continues Working On GNOME Improvements For Future Ubuntu
System76 continues working on improvements to the GNOME stack as part of their transition in-step to using it over Unity 7, in line with Canonical's decision to switch Ubuntu over to GNOME and abandon their grand Unity 8 ambitions...
Wine 2.11 Arrives, Adds OpenGL Support In The Android Driver
Wine 2.11 has arrived as the latest bi-weekly development release for this program to handle Windows games/applications on Linux and other operating systems...
Witcher 2 & Rocket League Get Fixed Up With Mesa 17.2 Git On RadeonSI
Marek Olšák's changes to make Rocket League and Witcher 2 happy on the RadeonSI OpenGL driver are now in place...
Serious Sam 3: BFE Gets The Fusion Treatment
Serious Sam 3: BFE has been upgraded (for now, the non-VR version) against the Serious Sam 2017 "Fusion" engine changes, which means Vulkan for this latest Croteam game...
Linux 4.12 Ubuntu Benchmarks With AMD Ryzen, Intel Kabylake - 12 Systems
While waiting for my motherboards to arrive for the new Core i7 7740X and Core i9 7900X, I've been re-testing many of my AMD/Intel boxes with Ubuntu 17.04 on the latest Linux 4.12 kernel for comparison to Intel's new high-end processors. Here is a look at 12 of the existing systems when running on the Linux 4.12 kernel as well as all of the systems have the latest BIOSes, etc.
Vulkan vs. OpenGL With The Radeon RX 470 On An Intel Xeon
Here is some more complementary data to this week's Vulkan vs. OpenGL On Linux With Core i5, Core i7, Ryzen 7...
That OpenSUSE Tablet So Far Is A Dud
Remember that "openSUSE Tablet" last year that was seeking crowd-funding and even advertised by the openSUSE crew for being a Linux tablet as cheap as $200 USD? Sadly, it's not a reality while the company still appears to be formulating something...
Some Fresh Tests With Mesa's Continuing KHR_no_error Work
Given the continued flow of KHR_no_error patches hitting Mesa 17.2 Git by Valve developers, here is a fresh comparison using the just-updated Padoka PPA with comparing the impact of using this support via the MESA_NO_ERROR=1 switch...
AMD's GPUOpen Releases Baikal Renderer
The Baikal renderer is a newly-released, open-source implementation of the AMD Radeon ProRender API. Baikal has evolved into a fully-functional rendering engine and its only hardware requirement is on OpenCL 1.2...
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