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KDE's KWin Adds DMA-Fence Deadline Support
KDE's KWin Adds DMA-Fence Deadline Support
69 Minutes Ago - KDE - DMA-Fence Deadline - 2 Comments

KDE's KWin compositor has added DMA-Fence deadline support to its DRM back-end that can help ensure rendering is completed on-time and otherwise helping to boost the GPU clock speeds.

6 December

AMD Announces The Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile Processors With Better Ryzen AI
AMD Announces The Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile Processors With Better Ryzen AI
6 December 03:00 PM EST - Processors - 32 Comments

In addition to AMD using its AI event today for launching the Instinct MI300A and MI300X along with ROCm 6.0, AMD also announced the Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors. A big emphasis with these forthcoming laptop processors is on the AI capabilities between the dedicated NPU with AMD XDNA, Zen 4 CPU cores with AVX-512 VNNI support, and AMD RDNA3 graphics capable of accelerating AI.

Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking
Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking
6 December 12:45 PM EST - Linux Gaming - GameMode 1.8 - 7 Comments

While there hasn't been much in the way of new Linux game ports from Feral Interactive since Steam Play (Valve's Proton + VKD3D-Proton) took over the scene, they do continue maintaining their GameMode open-source service and today released GameMode 1.8 with work by them and the open-source community.

Austrian Game Studio Now Sponsoring Krita Development
Austrian Game Studio Now Sponsoring Krita Development
6 December 09:51 AM EST - Free Software - Broken Rules - 8 Comments

While Blender is at the forefront of receiving corporate sponsorships and funding for advancing that open-source 3D modeling software, other free software graphics programs haven't all received the same level of support. As good news for further raising the open-source creative/graphics ecosystem, an Austrian video game studio has become one of the new Krita sponsors.

More AMD GFX12 Additions Land In LLVM Git For RDNA4 GPUs
More AMD GFX12 Additions Land In LLVM Git For RDNA4 GPUs
6 December 08:42 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU LLVM GFX12 - Add A Comment

As noted in late November, AMD has begun enabling new "GFX12" hardware in LLVM for their AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is the target for next-generation RDNA4 graphics processors and that upstreaming effort has continued with more patches being upstreamed.

AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories
AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories
6 December 06:46 AM EST - Operating Systems - ELevate + EPEL - 7 Comments

AlmaLinux's ELevate software is a wonderful utility to help ease migration between existing major versions of RHEL derivatives. In particular, it's been very useful for moving past CentOS 7 and/or upgrading from AlmaLinux 8 to 9, along with the ability to even move to other RHEL derivatives.

One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo
One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo
6 December 06:06 AM EST - SUSE - openSUSE Logo - 27 Comments

The openSUSE project has been working on a rebranding to better differentiate between this community open-source project and SUSE itself. There's been work on a logo design contest with just under one week left to vote in this survey.

5 December

The Performance & Power Improvement Of Steam Deck OLED's 6nm APU
The Performance & Power Improvement Of Steam Deck OLED's 6nm APU
5 December 04:19 PM EST - Linux Gaming - 31 Comments

The Steam Deck OLED has been on the test bench the past few weeks at Phoronix. The HDR OLED display of the updated Steam Deck handheld game console is gorgeous and was very impressed by it. On a technical level the battery life improvements are significant and one of the items I was most curious about were the power/performance implications in moving from the 7nm Van Gogh APU to a 6nm die shrink version of it while retaining the Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA2 integrated graphics. Here's a look at the performance and CPU power consumption between the Steam Deck LCD and Steam Deck OLED models not only for gaming but other Linux workloads too.

4 December

AMD Threadripper 7980X Kernel Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / 6.6 / 6.7
AMD Threadripper 7980X Kernel Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / 6.6 / 6.7
4 December 08:23 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Threadripper 7980X Linux Kernel Benchmar - 36 Comments

A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring whether using the newer Linux 6.6 stable kernel or Linux 6.7 development kernel deliver any additional gains when running on the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series hardware. Here are some benchmarks looking at that while using a Threadripper 7980X workstation.

TuxClocker 1.4 Brings More CPU & GPU Features
TuxClocker 1.4 Brings More CPU & GPU Features
4 December 06:39 AM EST - Hardware - TuxClocker 1.4 - 3 Comments

TuxClocker continues on its quest as being one of the leading open-source GUI control panels for overclockers and enthusiasts on Linux. Out this morning is TuxClocker 1.4 that brings more features for making this Qt-based open-source app more useful for those overclocking or just wanting to keep a better eye on their hardware's performance and thermals/power from the Linux desktop.

3 December

ASRock X570D4U BMC Working Toward OpenBMC Support
3 December 03:00 AM EST - Hardware - ASRock X570D4U + OpenBMC - 9 Comments

For those that happen to own an ASRock Rack X570D4U micro-ATX motherboard or are in the market for a server-grade AMD Ryzen 5000 series motherboard, patches are pending as this motherboard works on OpenBMC support as an alternative to the proprietary BMC software stack that ships with this AMD Ryzen 5000 series + ECC DDR4 supported motherboard.

2 December

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