PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop
Red Hat engineer and PipeWire lead developer Wim Taymans presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend around the state of the PipeWire project for this integral component to the modern Linux desktop...
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Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes
Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-EEVEE-2x-Perf
Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing
Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK\_EXT\_ray\_tracing\_invocation\_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK\_NV\_ray\_tracing\_invocation\_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-SER-Performance
KosmicKrisp Now Vulkan 1.3 Compliant For Apple Devices
Over the summer months LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan-on-Metal implementation for Apple devices and built around Mesa. That alternative to MoltenVK was upstreamed for next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release and now it's also celebrating being an officially Vulkan 1.3 conformant implementation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KosmicKrisp-Vulkan-1.3
RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1
The BeagleV Ahead is an open-source RISC-V single board computer S(BC) built around the quad-core TH1520 SoC. With the Linux 7.1 mainline kernel there is HDMI display support coming now that the Device Tree bits have been added...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-BeagleV-Ahead-HDMI