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Dawn of War III Will Be Able To Run/Render Correctly On Intel ANV Vulkan
Dawn of War III rolls out to Linux this Thursday with OpenGL and Vulkan support. When it comes to the Intel ANV Vulkan driver, it appears that it will work as long as you are using the very latest Mesa Git...
Taler 0.3 Released: GNU Still Striving For A Free Software Payment System
Among the lesser-known GNU projects is Taler, which is trying to be a free software electronic payment system. Today marks its v0.3 release, but it only works so far with toy currencies...
GL_vs_VK: A Micro-Benchmark Looking At The Overhead Of OpenGL vs. Vulkan APIs
GL_vs_VK is self-described as a "comparison of OpenGL and Vulkan API in terms of performance" and offers multiple test-cases for directly comparing OpenGL and Vulkan in different environments. Here are some benchmarks on several different drivers and GPUs.
openSUSE Leap 42.3 Hitting Release Candidate Stage
Ahead of the planned openSUSE Leap 42.3 release at the end of July is what's being released soon as a release candidate...
The State Of Vulkan For Qt 5.10
For the Qt 5.10 release at the end of the year there will be initial support for Vulkan following the cross-platform tool-kit's existing support for Direct3D 12. The Vulkan support is a step in the right direction but will likely be a few releases if not until Qt6 before seeing more thorough Vulkan API support...
NetBSD 8.0 Is Approaching Release With USB 3.0 Support
NetBSD developers are preparing to release the version "8.0" of their operating system in the near future...
iMX6 Platforms Can Now Boot Android Proprietary-Free
Thanks to work done by Collabora, Etnaviv, and other open-source developers, NXP/Freescale iMX6 platforms can now boot Android with no proprietary blobs...
RADV Vulkan Driver Has Patches For Radeon RX Vega Support
RADV developer David Airlie has published a set of 14 patches today that provide this unofficial open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with Vega GPU support...
Mesa 17.1.2 Rolls Out With Numerous Fixes
What better way to celebrate the 13th Phoronix birthday than coincidentally having a new Mesa release! It's not as exciting as a new feature release, but Mesa 17.1.2 is now available as the latest stable point release...
Chrome 59 Now Out As Stable For Linux
Google promoted Chrome 59 to the stable channel today for Linux, macOS, and Windows. This is an exciting update for Linux users...
15-Way NVIDIA/AMD OpenCL GPU Linux Benchmarks Of Ethereum Ethminer
With the Ethereum cryptocurrency generating lots of buzz recently due to its rising valuation and being excellent for mining on GPUs, here are some Ubuntu Linux benchmarks when testing many different GeForce and Radeon graphics cards with the Ethminer OpenCL support, including performance-per-dollar and performance-per-Watt metrics.
Apple Unveils "Metal 2" Graphics API, Better Performance & Capabilities For VR
Well, it doesn't look like Apple is going to abandon their in-house "Metal" graphics API in favor of the Vulkan industry standard for high-performance graphics... Apple used WWDC today to announce Metal 2...
Polaris Open-Source Radeon Performance Has Evolved Much Over The Past Year
This month will mark one year since the release of the Radeon 400 "Polaris" graphics cards. With the one year anniversary and also celebrating the 13th birthday of Phoronix, I ran some comparison tests showing the progress of the AMDGPU+RadeonSI driver stack over the better part of the past year using a Radeon RX 470 Polaris graphics card.
Khronos Publishes Finalized glTF 2.0 Specification For Portable 3D Assets
The Khronos Group has released the ratified glTF 2.0 specification this morning as their transmission format for portable 3D assets. glTF 2.0 can be integrated now not only within Khronos graphics API using applications/games but also within Direct3D and Metal...
Vulkan 1.0.51 Released
What better way to celebrate the Phoronix birthday than a new Vulkan update!..
Phoronix Turns 13, Phoronix Test Suite Is Now 9: Happy Birthday
Phoronix is now officially a teenager, with it marking 13 years since I founded Phoronix.com. Today also marks nine years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0-Trondheim for advancing open-source benchmarking...
Linux 4.12-rc4 Released, A "Fairly Normal" Test Release
Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 4.12-rc4 as the newest weekly test candidate of the upcoming Linux 4.12...
RADV External Memory Patches Revised, Needed For SteamVR Support
Bas Nieuwenhuizen has taken to revising David Airlie's work on external memory support for the RADV Vulkan driver, which are among the extensions needed by SteamVR on Linux...
GDB 8.0 Released, Adds Many New Features, Drops Java GCJ Support
GDB 8.0 has been released as the newest feature release for this widely-used GNU Debugger...
Intel vs. Radeon vs. NVIDIA OpenGL/Vulkan Linux Driver Performance
As another interesting benchmark special for Phoronix's 13th birthday is a comparison of Intel Kabylake, NVIDIA, and Radeon Vulkan vs. OpenGL Linux driver performance. Not only are we looking at the raw OpenGL/Vulkan performance but also the relative performance between graphics APIs on each vendor.
Dolphin Emulator Drops D3D12 Backend, Focuses On Vulkan
Dolphin Emulator, the open-source cross-platform game console emulator for the GameCube and Wii, has been continuing to improve its Vulkan back-end and is also moving forward with its work on a Qt user-interface...
My Three Hopes For AMD's Open-Source Stack The Rest Of 2017
Being half-way through 2017 now, there are three wishes I hope will still be fulfilled this calendar year by the AMD open-source Linux graphics driver stack...
Reiser4 Updated For The Linux 4.11 Kernel
Those holding interest in the Reiser4 file-system can now use it with the Linux 4.11 kernel...
0 A.D. RTS Game Nearing A New Alpha Release For Summer 2017
For those interested in the 0 A.D. open-source ancient warfare real-time strategy game, the next alpha release is in sight...
6-Way RadeonSI OpenGL vs. RADV Vulkan Comparison
Our latest featured article this week in the lead-up to Phoronix's 13th birthday is a new OpenGL RadeonSI vs. Vulkan RADV driver comparison with six different Radeon graphics cards. This also features some older hardware tested making use of the experimental AMDGPU DRM driver, which is needed for RADV to work on more of the GCN card line-up.
Phoronix Test Suite 7.2 M4 Released, Test Suites Now Also Available Via Git
The fourth and last planned development milestone release of Phoronix Test Suite 7.2-Trysil is now available ahead of the official release in the days ahead...
Weston Debug Protocol Proposed For Wayland
Prolific Wayland contributor Pekka Paalanen is requesting comments on the possible protocol addition for Wayland's Weston designed for easing the debugging experience...
Nouveau NVC0 Enables ARB_post_depth_coverage
Red Hat's Lyude has enabled the ARB_post_depth_coverage within the Nouveau NVC0 driver and the associated work for bringing it up within Gallium3D / Mesa state tracker...
OpenBenchmarking.org Hits 24 Million Test/Suite Downloads
OpenBenchmarking.org, our "cloud" component to the Phoronix Test Suite for centralized result aggregation by those opting to publicly upload their test results and also serving as the repository for all test profiles and test suites so they can ship independent of the PTS version, has hit 24 million test/suite downloads...
Some Ryzen Linux Users Are Facing Issues With Heavy Compilation Loads
I haven't encountered this issue myself on any of my Ryzen Linux boxes, but it seems there are a number of Ryzen Linux users who are facing segmentation faults and sometimes crashes when running concurrent compilation loads on these Zen CPUs...
Fedora 26 Beta Delayed Again, Final Pushed Out To Mid-July
Last week Fedora 26's beta was delayed and today they have needed to still postpone this beta release due to bugs...
51 GPUs Tested, From The Radeon HD 2900XT To RX 580 & R9 Fury: Testing The 2017 Linux Driver Stack
It's that time of the year where we see how the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack is working on past and present hardware in a large GPU comparison with various OpenGL games and workloads. This year we go from the new Radeon RX 580 all the way back to the Radeon HD 2900XT, looking at how the mature Radeon DRM kernel driver and R600 Gallium3D driver is working for aging ATI/AMD graphics hardware. In total there were 51 graphics cards tested for this comparison of Radeon cards as well as NVIDIA GeForce hardware for reference.
TrueOS BSD Stable Milestone With Installer Improvements, Lumina 1.2.2 Desktop
TrueOS, the FreeBSD-derived operating system formerly known as PC-BSD, is out with a six-month stable release update...
More Android Code Had Been Landing In Wine
For those that have been longing to run Windows applications/games on Android using Wine, that day is finally getting closer with mainline Wine...
AMD Begins Cutting Prices On Ryzen CPUs
If you have been waiting to pick up an AMD Ryzen CPU until the prices drop, they are beginning to do so...
Mesa 17.1.2 Is Primed For Release
For those riding the stable Mesa 17.1 release train, the 17.1.2 update is expected this weekend...
LZ4m: Taking LZ4 Compression To The Next Level
While LZ4 can be very fast with its compression and decompression speeds, there's a new kid on the block that appears to be even faster: LZ4m...
Steam Linux Usage Ticks Up Slightly For May
With the start of a new month comes updated Steam usage figures for the month prior...
Coreboot Joins The Software Freedom Conservancy
Coreboot has joined the Software Freedom Conservancy as a member project...
Micro Machines World Series Is Driving On Linux This Month
Virtual Programming has revealed their latest noteworthy Linux game port: Micro Machines World Series...
12-Way RadeonSI OpenGL Comparison vs. NVIDIA On Ubuntu Linux
After posting a number of NVIDIA GPU Linux benchmarks this week using their latest drivers, here is similar treatment on the Radeon side using their newest open-source driver code.
Celebrate Phoronix's 13th Birthday By Going Ad-Free Premium At A Great Discount
On 5 June we celebrate the 13th birthday of Phoronix.com as well as 9 years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0. In celebration, for the next week we are running a great deal on our ad-free, multi-page-articles-on-a-single-page, while supporting our site "Premium" subscription...
UBports Has A Lot Of Work This Summer For Letting Ubuntu Touch Live On
It's now been nearly two months since Canonical announced they were abandoning their Unity 8 / Ubuntu Phone dreams and about the same amount of time since the forks started around Unity 8, Mir, and Ubuntu Touch itself...
Valve's Mesa Developers Continue Tuning KHR_no_error For Saving CPU Cycles
Valve's developers working on the Mesa / Linux graphics driver stack continue tuning KHR_no_error for helping lower the CPU utilization in OpenGL bug-free games...
RADV Vulkan Driver Is Prepping For Vega/GFX9 Support
It looks like RADV developers are working on getting their driver ready for bringing up Radeon RX Vega support on their unofficial, open-source Vulkan driver...
AMD LeMaker Cello Board Finally Ships To Some
With all of AMD's excitement these days about their Zen-based Ryzen/EPYC processors and forthcoming Vega GPUs, you probably forgot about their ARM efforts that they appear to have pretty much abandoned. But it looks like some of those who pre-ordered the AMD Seattle powered LeMaker Cello board are finally receiving their kits...
Mesa 17.0.7 Released, Mesa 17.0 Hits The End Of The Line
Mesa 17.0.7 is now available as the latest bug-fix release to Mesa 17.0 and is also the last planned release for the Mesa 17.0 series that debuted earlier this year...
The Git Repository For The Vulkan Software Renderer In Development
One of the most exciting projects for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) if successful is a Vulkan software renderer...
openSUSE Tumbleweed Switches Over To GCC 7
openSUSE's Tumbleweed rolling-release Linux distribution has now switched over to using GCC7 as its default code compiler...
Ryzen, Linux 4.12 & Polaris Evolved Were Exciting This Month
It's that time again to go over what was the most interesting/viewed content on Phoronix for the month. In May, your's truly wrote 290 original news articles and 26 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews...
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