vulkan

The latest round of open-source AMD driver work and kernel/toolchain updates are materially improving Llama.cpp AI inference performance on Linux — in some cases outpacing equivalent Windows 11 setups — thanks to targeted RADV/Mesa optimizations, newer Linux kernels, and the way Vulkan-based...

Wine’s bi-weekly development stream delivered another incremental but meaningful update this week with the release of Wine 10.14, bringing an upgraded graphics stack, an updated Mono engine, networking improvements, CI infrastructure changes, and a tranche of pragmatic bug fixes that will matter...

FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman" lands as a sweeping, technically ambitious release that folds AI transcription, broad Vulkan compute support, dozens of native decoders, and notable hardware-acceleration improvements into the project’s core — a release the developers call one of their largest to date and...

FFmpeg 8.0 lands as a major milestone for open-source media tooling, introducing Vulkan-based video processing, a native AV1 Vulkan encoder, an OpenAI Whisper transcription filter, expanded VVC and ProRes support, and a raft of security and build changes that together reshape how creators...

Canonical’s third point release for Noble Numbat arrives at a timely moment for PC builders and IT admins who want stability without sacrificing new hardware support: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is out with a refreshed installation image, a backported Linux 6.14 hardware enablement kernel, and the Mesa...

Games on the PC have always been a battleground, not just for the latest graphics cards or processors, but also for the operating systems that run them. For decades, Microsoft Windows reigned unchallenged as the only serious option for gamers who wanted top-tier performance and compatibility...

Welcome to a showdown that feels like a heavyweight match between Windows 11 and Linux, brought to you by Intel’s fresh-off-the-press Arc B-Series “Battlemage” graphics cards. Geeky? Maybe. Exciting? Absolutely. Let’s dive in to explore how Intel’s latest GPUs, spearheaded by the B580, stack up...

The gaming community has been buzzing with the recent release of Enshrouded, an Early Access title that has quickly captured the attention of players worldwide. However, as with many freshly minted games, Enshrouded has encountered its fair share of technical hiccups—most notably, launch issues...

As graphics performance expectations rise, particularly in mobile environments, Microsoft and the Khronos Group have made strides to incorporate the Vulkan graphics API into Windows 11 on ARM architecture. This move signifies a notable development in the world of graphics processing and gaming...

Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. Vulkan - Industry Forged Tech demos: Vulkan on Android Drivers: Nvidia Vulkan...