Linux 6.16 with many improvements for AMD, Intel and Nvidia
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| Source: GBHackers |
The new free operating system kernel Linux 6.16 has been released by Linus Torvalds and once again offers numerous improvements in the areas of CPUs, graphics cards and file system from which players also benefit. Hardware from manufacturers such as AMD, Intel and Nvidia is now even better supported and further developed accordingly. Linux 6.16 is another important development step and starts in almost every important area.
Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX
Nvidia's open source driver Nouveau continues to make great progress and now supports Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, even if the full range of functions has not yet been implemented. All PCI IDs of the Geforce RTX 5000 have been integrated into the free Nouveau graphics driver for the first time.
The improvements and now supports queues in user mode for direct workload submission, which should lead to more flexible job scheduling from the user area ("user Space") and thus to improved performance in games and other workloads.
Another interesting new feature in Linux 6.16 is the new CPU kernel option "X86_NATIVE_CPU", which allows the user to optimize the kernel specifically for his current CPU and thus improve performance.
In addition, many minor innovations, optimizations and bug fixes were once again included, which noticeably improve the overall performance and add up to a total of 38.4 million lines of code in over 78,000 files.
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