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Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October, 2024

Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

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Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October, 2024

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic...

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Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October, 2024

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers with Vulkan Video support underneath...

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Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October, 2024

Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...

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Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October, 2024

The Rust-written Servo web layout engine project that was born at Mozilla and now continued by Linux Foundation Europe with other stakeholders like Igalia has been making steady progress in recent months. The project's September 2024 status report is now available that outlines recent improvements to this open-source browser layout engine...

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New AMD Linux Patches Aim To Further Boost Performance For Heterogeneous CPU Designs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October, 2024

A new set of patches from AMD Linux engineers today aim to boost the performance for heterogeneous CPU designs such as the recent Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs that have multiple core types...

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Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" List Prices Top Out At $17,800 USD

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October, 2024

Last week with the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors, Intel didn't disclose their list prices... Today they added the Granite Rapids list prices to their ARK database. With Granite Rapids making Intel much more competitive to the AMD EPYC competition and over prior generation Xeon CPUs, these new processors are commanding a higher price tag with the Xeon 6980P topping out at $17,800 USD...

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Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October, 2024

Mesa 24.2.4 is out today as the newest stable point release to this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers...

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MRDIMM 8800MT/s vs. DDR5-6400 Memory Performance With Intel Xeon 6

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October, 2024

Last week when kicking off the Intel Granite Rapids benchmarking with the Xeon 6980P processors there was particularly strong performance within HPC and other scientific computing workloads. Besides going now up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket, another reason for the especially strong generational uplift and against the current AMD EPYC competition is Xeon 6 Granite Rapids introducing Multiplexed Rank memory support. One of the areas I've been eager to explore is quantifying the DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM 8800MT/s performance difference and this article is dedicated to looking at that memory performance impact for the Xeon 6900P series.