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Intel Core i9 9900KS Linux Performance Benchmarks Review

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of October 2019 02:42:56 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks

Today the Intel Core i9 9900KS is shipping at $513 USD for this specially-binned Coffeelake CPU that is capable of achieving a 5.0GHz all-core turbo frequency. The all-core 5.0GHz turbo is great, but it remains an eight-core / sixteen-thread 14nm processor going up against AMD's similarly priced Ryzen 9 3900X. Here are our initial benchmarks of the Core i9 9900KS compared to the Core i9 9900K and Ryzen 9 3900X.

The Intel Core i9 9900KS 8c/16t CPU features a 4.0GHz base frequency with 5.0GHz turbo frequency that can be sustained across all cores. The Core i9 9900KS does carry a 127 Watt TDP compared to 95 Watts with the i9-9900K, which has a lower base frequency of 3.6GHz and its 5.0GHz turbo rating is only for a single core. The price of the i9-9900KS is launching at $513 USD while the i9-9900K is now priced at around $449. The rest of the specifications align between the year-old Core i9 9900K and the new Core i9 9900KS.

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Graphics: Mesa and NVIDIA's Latest

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 29th of October 2019 05:05:36 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
  • A Lot More Intel Tiger Lake / Gen12 Xe Graphics Code Merged To Mesa 19.3

    With Mesa 19.3 embarking on its feature freeze this week unless the period is extended, Intel developers have been working on landing more of their Gen12 graphics code into this release for future Tiger Lake CPUs as well as the basis for their first Xe discrete graphics card.

    For Mesa 19.3 is a lot of Intel's Gen13 graphics code bring-up to go along with their changes coming for Linux 5.5. For both kernel and user-space, it will likely be a few more releases each before the Gen12 graphics support is squared away, which should be fine since the first Xe graphics card isn't expected until H2'2020 and the same goes for the Tiger Lake CPUs with Gen12 graphics.

  • Mesa 19.3 Adds Support For New AMDGPU Reset Interface

    AMD open-source developer Marek Olšák is landing the last of his changes for the Mesa 19.3 imminent feature freeze.

    Among the changes merged overnight were for initializing shader compilers in threads on-demand as what appears to mostly benefit Piglit when spinning up its many shaders for testing. Mesa 19.3 has also updated the AMDGPU winsys code to support the new AMDGPU reset interface plumbed through the kernel and Mesa DRM library (libdrm).

  • NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER + GTX 1660 SUPER

    After weeks of information leaking on these new ~$200 GTX SUPER graphics cards, NVIDIA today officially announced the GTX 1660 SUPER that is shipping today and the GTX 1650 SUPER that will hit store shelves in late November.

    The NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER is being marketed as 1.5x faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 for popular Windows games. The GTX 1660 SUPER features 15 Gbps GDDR6 video memory and the Turing upgrade over Pascal provides a significant performance uplift. The GTX 1660 SUPER will begin shipping today starting at $229 USD.

  • NVIDIA Launches Upgraded Shield TV with Tegra X1+ Processor
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AMD Linux Graphics Driver Prepping "DMCUB" Support For Renoir APUs

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 29th of October 2019 02:24:45 AM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks

While we have seen a lot of open-source AMD Linux graphics driver patches for Renoir and that initial support within the 5.4 kernel, support for this 2020 APU platform is still maturing. The newest work on the Linux upbringing for Renoir is enabling the "DMCUB" support.

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Also: Intel Core i9 9900KS Linux Benchmarks Are Coming

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Graphics: Mir, Zink and DXVK

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 28th of October 2019 04:51:51 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
  • Ubuntu's Mir Working On Replaceable Renderer, Hybrid Graphics Driver Support

    Canonical's Chris Halse Rogers has shared a road-map for Mir (or terrain map as he prefers calling it) about their future plans for this open-source display server that remains focused now on providing Wayland support. 

  • Zink Merged Into Mesa 19.3 For Offering OpenGL Over Vulkan

    Zink is the effort led by Collabora's Erik Faye-Lund for offering a generic OpenGL/GLES implementation that runs atop Vulkan. While it's exciting prospects and well into the future could allow hardware vendors to avoid having to maintain OpenGL drivers with instead focusing on Vulkan, for now there is still a long road ahead for performance and features. Right now Zink supports just OpenGL 2.1 / OpenGL ES 2.0. With time though there are plans for supporting OpenGL 3.x/4.x and OpenGL ES 3.x functionality. At least with Zink, the existing OpenGL code inside Mesa/Gallium3D is doing much of the heavy lifting. 

  • D9VK 0.30 Released With Performance Improvements, Other D3D9 Features Now Supported

    Building off yesterday's DXVK 1.4.4 release, D9VK 0.30 is out as the similar project that implements the Direct3D 9 API atop Vulkan.

    D9VK 0.30 re-bases its code atop DXCVK 1.4.4 and has performance improvements via locking changes, avoiding the throwing out of D3DUSAGE_DYNAMIC buffers, supporting discard on non-dynamic resources, other locking changes, and other work.

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Apple macOS 10.15 vs. Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Performance Benchmarks

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 28th of October 2019 04:24:18 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks

In addition to this month bringing the release of the Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine", Apple also shipped macOS 10.15 "Catalina" as the sixteenth major release of their macOS operating system. So with that it makes for an interesting time seeing how macOS 10.15 competes against both Ubuntu 19.10 and Windows 10 on an Apple MacBook Pro. Here are those results from dozens of benchmarks.

Using an Apple MacBook Pro with Core i7-6700HQ Skylake CPU, 2 x 8GB RAM, 250GB Apple SSD, and Radeon Pro 450 graphics, macOS 10.15, Windows 10, and Ubuntu 19.10 were all benchmarked off this same system. All three operating systems were tested with their latest software updates as of testing.

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DXVK 1.4.4 Released

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 28th of October 2019 11:09:27 AM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
Software
Gaming
  • D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan layer DXVK version 1.4.4 is out

    One missed from the weekend, developer Philip Rebohle released a fresh update to the Vulkan layer DXVK with version 1.4.4.

    A small and sweet maintenance release we have here with a couple of optimizations. The memory footprint of small and frequently updated buffers was reduced, there's some minor optimizations for "Stream Output and Append/Consume buffers (used e.g. by Unity Engine)", a bug fixed from DXVK 1.4.3 that caused some invalid state cache entries being generated, some Vulkan validation errors with geometry shaders were fixed and some "potential read-after-write hazards involving vertex and index buffers" were also solved.

  • DXVK 1.4.4 With Vulkan Usage Fixes, Optimizations & A Few Game Specific Fixes

    Philip Rebohle has released his latest weekly update to DXVK for accelerating Direct3D 10/11 games using Vulkan as a big boost for Steam Play (Proton) and Wine.

    DXVK 1.4.4 has a regression fix for 1.4.3 that could lead to invalid Vulkan API usage, Vulkan validation error fixes, potential read-after-write hazards resolved, optimizations for Stream Output and Append/Consume buffers, and reduced memory footprint for small and frequently updated buffers.

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EPYC 7642/7742 vs. Xeon Platinun 8280 Performance With Intel-Recommended Benchmarks

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 27th of October 2019 05:46:51 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks

Here are the latest numbers in our ongoing AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" series benchmarking. This time around for some curiosity over the weekend is a look at the EPYC 7642 and EPYC 7742 up against the Xeon Platinum 8280 all in 2P configurations while running benchmarks publicly recommended by Intel in one of their whitepapers. Even going by Intel-recommended tests, the EPYC 7642/7742 deliver significantly better performance and cost savings over the comparable Xeon Platinum 8280.

One of my weekend "hobbies" is always scouring whitepapers, scientific papers, and GitHub (among other sources) looking for interesting and new benchmarks/workloads to incorporate into the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org. After all, there are 384 different official benchmarks part of our open-source benchmarking framework and from there 1,404 different versions of those benchmarks from the past 11+ years of developing the Phoronix Test Suite for open-source and fully-automated benchmarking.

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Graphics: AMD, Vulkan and NVIDIA

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 26th of October 2019 05:12:41 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
  • AMD Sends In Another Batch Of Feature Changes For Linux 5.5 AMDGPU Driver Code

    Complementing the big AMDGPU feature pull request from two weeks ago, on Friday AMD sent out a second batch of features targeting the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel merge window.

    On the feature front, the main change with this pull request for Linux 5.5 is the BACO support for older AMD GPUs. Those Radeon 200/300 series parts are seeing BACO support for possible power-savings ultimately but the short-term focus is using it for GPU reset functionality. BACO is already supported on the newer AMD GPUs.

  • RADV Vulkan Driver's ACO Compiler Back-End Has Navi/GFX10 Nearly Squared Away

    Following a lot of work on the AMD "ACO" compiler back-end to the RADV Vulkan driver for GFX10/Navi, this experimental alternative to AMDGPU LLVM is about ready to go for these newest AMD graphics processors.

    There was more aco/gfx10 activity merged yesterday getting the hazard mitigations in place and other bits landing earlier in the week as well.

  • NVIDIA Extends GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE To Work With Vulkan Apps, Better RAM Reclamation

    NVIDIA on Friday released the 435.27.02 Linux beta driver that features a few Vulkan updates.

    First up, the environment variable __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE is now honored by Vulkan applications. This environment variable has been used by the NVIDIA Linux driver for a few years in cases of multi-monitor setups that are not ideal for specifying which display device / output to sync to in a bid to eliminate tearing. This GL_SYNC variable has obviously been focused on OpenGL (there is also a separate one for VDPAU synchronization) while now it works for Vulkan games/programs too.

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A Look At The Per-Clock Performance / Peak Frequencies With The Intel Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 26th of October 2019 04:14:53 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks

Following this week's Intel Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake Linux benchmarks there was some questions and speculations about the per-clock performance of this long-awaited Intel microarchitecture update. Here is some additional data shedding light on the clock frequencies under load and ultimately how the per-clock performance compares to the common Intel previous-generation mobile CPUs.

The Core i7-1065G7 features a 1.3GHz base frequency and 3.9GHz turbo frequency, well below the i7-8550U clock frequencies of 1.80GHz and 4.0GHz for the i7-8550U or 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz of the i7-8565U processors, the two other mobile processors compared to in this week's Linux benchmarks. But thanks to superior per-clock performance, the Ice Lake CPU offered significant raw performance and performance-per-Watt gains over these earlier processors.

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Linux Graphics: Intel's ANV Driver, Mesa 19.2.2, NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 435.27.02

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 26th of October 2019 02:04:48 AM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
Linux
  • Intel's ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Memory Model Support

    The newest Vulkan extension now supported by Intel's open-source "ANV" Linux driver is VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model.

    The VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model support was originally introduced a year ago and then solidified in Q1 as the formal memory model for Vulkan and the first for a major graphics API. VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model exposes support for the Vulkan Memory Model as the means of defining synchronized memory access to the same memory locations via multiple shader invocations.

  • mesa 19.2.2
    Hi list,

Sorry for the slight delay in the release, my fault. I'm pleased to announce the
availability of mesa 19.2.2, the second point release in the mesa 19.2 series.
Things have started to slow down a bit, and I like that. We've had an assortment
of fixes in this release, notably a bunch of work to get Solaris and illumos
working with mesa, as well as more work fixing issues in the migration of
package-config and headers being handled by libglvnd instead of mesa when mesa
is built with support for glvnd.

There's  bunch of other changes here, with radv and intel leading the pack,
otherwise just a few things here and there.

Dylan


Shortlog
========

Alan Coopersmith (6):
      c99_compat.h: Don't try to use 'restrict' in C++ code
      util: Make Solaris implemention of p_atomic_add work with gcc
      util: Workaround lack of flock on Solaris
      util: Solaris has linux-style pthread_setname_np
      meson: recognize "sunos" as the system name for Solaris
      intel/common: include unistd.h for ioctl() prototype on Solaris

Alejandro Piñeiro (1):
      v3d: take into account prim_counts_offset

Bas Nieuwenhuizen (3):
      radv: Disallow sparse shared images.
      nir/dead_cf: Remove dead control flow after infinite loops.
      radv: Fix single stage constant flush with merged shaders.

Clément Guérin (1):
      radeonsi: enable zerovram for Rocket League

Connor Abbott (2):
      nir/sink: Rewrite loop handling logic
      nir/sink: Don't sink load_ubo to outside of its defining loop

Dylan Baker (3):
      docs: Add SHA256 sum for 19.2.1
      docs: Add release notes for 19.2.2
      Bump version for 19.2.2 release

Eric Engestrom (7):
      GL: drop symbols mangling support
      meson: rename `glvnd_missing_pc_files` to `not glvnd_has_headers_and_pc_files`
      meson: move a couple of include installs around
      meson: split headers one per line
      meson: split Mesa headers as a separate installation
      meson: skip installation of GLVND-provided headers
      util/u_atomic: fix return type of p_atomic_{inc,dec}_return() and p_atomic_{cmp,}xchg()

Ian Romanick (2):
      nir/search: Fix possible NULL dereference in is_fsign
      intel/vec4: Don't try both sources as immediates for DPH

James Xiong (1):
      iris: finish aux import on get_param

Kenneth Graunke (2):
      iris: Properly unreference extra VBOs for draw parameters
      iris: Implement the Gen < 9 tessellation quads workaround

Lepton Wu (1):
      egl/android: Remove our own reference to buffers.

Lionel Landwerlin (3):
      etnaviv: remove variable from global namespace
      anv: fix vkUpdateDescriptorSets with inline uniform blocks
      anv: fix memory leak on device destroy

Lucas Stach (3):
      etnaviv: fix vertex buffer state emission for single stream GPUs
      rbug: fix transmitted texture sizes
      rbug: unwrap index buffer resource

Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer (1):
      mesa: fix invalid target error handling for teximage

Roland Scheidegger (1):
      gallivm: Fix saturated signed psub/padd intrinsics on llvm 8

Samuel Pitoiset (6):
      drirc: enable vk_x11_override_min_image_count for DOOM
      radv: bump minTexelBufferOffsetAlignment to 4
      radv: fix DCC fast clear code for intensity formats
      Revert "radv: do not emit PKT3_CONTEXT_CONTROL with AMDGPU 3.6.0+"
      radv: fix DCC fast clear code for intensity formats (correctly)
      radv: fix updating bound fast ds clear values with different aspects

Timothy Arceri (1):
      glsl: fix crash compiling bindless samplers inside unnamed UBOs


git tag: mesa-19.2.2
  • Mesa 19.2.2 Brings Fixes For Solaris/Illumos, Continued Fixes For Intel ANV + Radeon RADV

    Mesa 19.2.2 was released on Thursday as the second point release to this quarter's Mesa 19.2 stable series.

    With all new feature work focused on Mesa 19.3 for release in just over one month's time, Mesa 19.2.2 is just focused on fixes. The Mesa 19.2.2 brings a number of compatibility fixes/workarounds for Oracle Solaris (and the open-source Illumos), a number of Radeon Vulkan (RADV) fixes, the workaround to enabling zeroed vRAM for the Rocket League game to avoid artifact issues, Meson build system updates, a few Intel Iris Gallium3D driver fixes, and various other fixes scattered throughout.

  • NVIDIA have released a new Vulkan Beta Driver 435.27.02

    NVIDIA continue pushing out new builds to their special Vulkan Beta Driver, a staging area to test out new features. They've been running this special series now for a number of years, as they continue to keep up with the latest updates to the Vulkan API and their support of Linux with recent drivers has been great.

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