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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 28, 2023

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Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' gears up for merging into Mesa

↺ Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' gears up for merging into Mesa

> This is exciting as heck! Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand and various contributors have been powering through developing NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA.

Intel Arc GPUs Keep On Getting Better, Latest Linux Driver Further Improves Performance

↺ Intel Arc GPUs Keep On Getting Better, Latest Linux Driver Further Improves Performance

> Intel has been rapidly developing its open-source Vulkan drivers for Linux recently, incorporating technologies like ray tracing & generally improving overall performance for its GPUs like the Arc family. It was said that the driver optimizations were halted due to a lack of support for the " I915_FORMAT_MOD_4_TILED_DG2_RC_CCS" modifier, but now it has been added due to which the benchmarks were obtained.

AMD Releases Next-Gen GPU Patches For Linux, Also Publishes AMDGPU Firmware For Upcoming Radeon GPUs

↺ AMD Releases Next-Gen GPU Patches For Linux, Also Publishes AMDGPU Firmware For Upcoming Radeon GPUs

> For a quick recap, AMD has taken a new approach to releasing drivers on the Linux kernel with the aim of easing device enumeration. The change is adopting important driver changes through IP/hardware blocks rather than huge patches at a time. While this approach takes longer time and dedication, it is advantageous for less hard-coded information within the driver and makes it well-compiled, which comes as a clutch when solving a specific problem.

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