Tag Archives: Phoronix

AMD RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Is Now Usable With Ubuntu 23.10

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With today’s release of Ubuntu 23.10 not only is the performance improved nicely for modern AMD Ryzen systems, but as usual the open-source graphics performance has enjoyed some nice performance improvements, new Vulkan extensions, and more particularly when it comes to the AMD Radeon and Intel graphics drivers…

Source: Phoronix – AMD RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Is Now Usable With Ubuntu 23.10

FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects

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Roman Gilg who is known for his work on the KWinFT compositor project has spent the past few years quietly developing FDBuild as a new tool for developers to easily pull, configure, and build multiple software projects via a single command. This week he released FDBuild 0.1 as the first public release of this handy utility…

Source: Phoronix – FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects

Intel Racing Toward The Finish Line For Stable Meteor Lake Graphics With Linux 6.7

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While one month ago a Linux kernel patch was floated for advertising Meteor Lake graphics support by default to effectively mark it as stable and remove it from behind the “i915.force_probe” block, that has yet to be queued for the mainline kernel. Today another set of patches were submitted of new Intel kernel graphics driver changes slated for Linux 6.7 with this patch still missing — but it might squeeze in next week to still make it for the v6.7 cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Racing Toward The Finish Line For Stable Meteor Lake Graphics With Linux 6.7

Intel's OIDn 2.1 Released With Better GPU Support

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Released back in May was Intel’s open-source Open Image Denoise 2.0 that brought GPU support via SYCL for this denoising library intended for use with ray-tracing applications. Following that big release as part of the broader effort to make Intel’s oneAPI suite more supportive on GPUs/accelerators, OIDn 2.1 released on Wednesday with fixes and performance improvements to the GPU support…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s OIDn 2.1 Released With Better GPU Support

Intel Enables FCV Optimization For Gen12.5+ Graphics On Linux To Boost Performance

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Intel has enabled a fast clear optimization “FCV” for their Gen12.5 graphics and newer under Linux with the open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver. This can help games like F1 22 with improving performance as much as 45%…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Enables FCV Optimization For Gen12.5+ Graphics On Linux To Boost Performance

Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers

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Red Hat continues hiring for additional help on their open-source Linux graphics driver team that does stellar work for enabling open-source graphics hardware support in cases like NVIDIA hardware with Nouveau, optimizing performance of existing drivers, and making other infrastructure improvements…

Source: Phoronix – Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers

O3DE 23.10 Released With Many Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine

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Back in July of last year the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) engine launched as part of the Open 3D Foundation and initially was a spin-out of Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine. Out this week is O3DE 23.10 as the newest half-year update to this project…

Source: Phoronix – O3DE 23.10 Released With Many Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine

AMD EPYC 8324P / 8324PN Siena 32-Core Siena Linux Server Performance

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Last month AMD launched the EPYC 8004 “Siena” 4th Gen EPYC processors to round out their Zen 4 server processors with the expansive Genoa, Genoa-X, Bergamo, and Siena product portfolios. The new EPYC 8004 series are designed to maximize the power efficiency for server deployments from the data center to edge, teclo, and other non-traditional server environments. Up for testing today is an initial look at the Siena performance in the form of the EPYC 8324P and EPYC 8324PN 32-core parts for seeing how they stack up against 32-core Intel Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” performance.

Source: Phoronix – AMD EPYC 8324P / 8324PN Siena 32-Core Siena Linux Server Performance

HTTP/2 "Rapid Reset" DDoS Attack Disclosed By Google, Cloudflare & AWS

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Google, Cloudflare and AWS today disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability called the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack. This attack that is being seen in the real-world relies on a weakness in the HTTP2 protocol for carrying out “hyper volumetric” Distributed Denial of Service attacks…

Source: Phoronix – HTTP/2 “Rapid Reset” DDoS Attack Disclosed By Google, Cloudflare & AWS

Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME's Performance For Secondary GPU Setups

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Daniel van Vugt of Canonical’s desktop team for Ubuntu Linux has been on a spree recently tackling various GNOME bugs — often performance issues — while also continuing to work on the dynamic triple buffering support and other GNOME desktop enhancements. His latest discovery is around finding another performance bottleneck for multi-GPU setups…

Source: Phoronix – Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME’s Performance For Secondary GPU Setups