by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window…
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a “Rigel” Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details...
