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The newest GPUs, boards, silicon, systems and operating systems — covered in depth.
Latest
- OpenBSD 8.0 lands with Intel Arc graphics, a 512 GB kernel address space and post-quantum defaults
- AMD GAIA 0.25 turns Strix Halo into a self-contained local agent box, and finally stops eating 16 GB laptops alive
- Upscaling on Linux, head to head: Intel XeSS joins NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR in the Proton pipeline
GPUs
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Upscaling on Linux, head to head: Intel XeSS joins NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR in the Proton pipeline
Intel's proposed Proton patches would route XeSS Direct3D 12 calls to a native Linux library and unlock the XMX path on Arc GPUs. We compare how the three vendors' upscalers reach Linux gamers today.
Operating Systems
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OpenBSD 8.0 lands with Intel Arc graphics, a 512 GB kernel address space and post-quantum defaults
The 61st OpenBSD release pulls in DRM from Linux 6.18.53, lifts the amd64 kernel VA limit from 4 GB to 512 GB, makes X25519MLKEM768 the preferred TLS 1.3 group and quietly retires Loongson.
AI Compute
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AMD GAIA 0.25 turns Strix Halo into a self-contained local agent box, and finally stops eating 16 GB laptops alive
AMD's open-source agent stack trims its Windows footprint from roughly 0.9 GB to 0.1 GB, halves first-response latency on Qwen3.6 and adds a RAM check that keeps small machines out of the OOM killer.