Valve Linux Engineer Natalie Vock has developed new optimizations for GPU memory management, leading to notable FPS gains. Graphics card prices have been anything but normal due to the ongoing ...

Engineers from Valve have submitted a new GPU memory management patch to the Linux kernel, addressing a long-standing ...

An independent contractor for Valve gave Linux a way to boost discrete GPU performance on budget cards with 8GB of memory or ...

Linux gaming gets a major boost as new kernel patches keep 8GB GPUs running at peak performance by stopping background apps ...

Games should run smoother now.

The CPU and the GPU share access to some pages of memory. New Linux code helps the kernel keep track of memory holding data for the GPU. The management of video hardware has long been an area of ...

Natalie Vock, who works on Valve's Linux graphics stack and the RADV Vulkan driver, has developed a set of kernel patches and user-space tools to address ...

Before Optimization, much of the AMD GPU's 8GB VRAM is pulled from Cyberpunk 2077 (GameThread) for other applications.

I'm hoping there are a few kernel hackers around here who might have some insights into this... I have a long standing habit of using "gutless wonder" ARM boards for desktop. Some work well, some work ...

Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...