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New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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Last year Valve contractor Timur Kristóf managed to improve the AMDGPU driver enough for old GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs that with Linux 6.19 AMDGPU is now the default for those GPUs with better performance, RADV Vulkan out-of-the-box, and other benefits. He isn't done though improving the old GCN 1.0/1.1 era GPU support on this modern AMDGPU kernel driver - a new patch series posted today brings some power management fixes.

Timur Kristóf posted a new patch series today focused on AMDGPU driver power management fixes for the GCN 1.0 graphics processors. This patch series is that very latest work for benefiting these 14 year old graphics processors.

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[–] nyankas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This is a great example of open source adding value for everyone. Users of those GPUs get improved performance, Valve gets to sell them more recent games, and AMD gets a nice, free reputation boost because their older hardware still receives meaningful updates.

So if anyone ever needs to convince management that open-sourcing something could be good for business, point to this!