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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines

Linux users are complaining that the AMD graphics driver for their OS of choice is getting so big that it is causing issues. Red Hat Linux desktop engineer Hans de Goede highlighted this issue at the weekend. Graphical boot menus are timing out before AMDGPU can load.

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Zen 5 CPU performance is unaffected by Inception mitigation

AMD's latest Zen 5 architecture is reportedly the first architecture since Zen 3 to be immune to the Inception vulnerability — it does not require software-based mitigations.

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Ryzen 9 9950X runs 16% faster on an Intel-optimized Linux distro

Phronix benchmarked AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X against various Linux distros, showcasing a 16% performance margin between the fastest and slowest distros. The fastest solution uses an Intel-optimized distro.

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AMD's Zen 5 AVX-512 performance tested — Zen 5 performs significantly better than Zen 4 on Linux without consuming any more power

Phoronix tested the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 7950X in a head-to-head face-off in AVX-512 workloads to see how the 9950X's AVX-512 implementation is much better.

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AMD asks developer to take down open source ZLUDA, dev vows to rebuild his project

Developer of ZLUDA translation layer vows to rebuild the CUDA translation layer as AMD demands to take down open source code developed with its funding.

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Zen 5 testing shows AMD's performance and power gains with threading — Intel ditched threading with Lunar Lake

Phoronix tested SMT on Zen 5 and Zen 5c, revealing that SMT dramatically improves power efficiency and performance with AMD's latest CPUs.

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Intel and AMD won't like that: Detailed benchmarking of Amazon Graviton4 shows fantastic performance/price — this is the biggest server CPU threat yet to x86 duopoly and it won't go away

Comprehensive benchmarking of AWS Graviton4 shows Arm processor is a threat to Intel and AMD.

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Snapdragon X Elite iGPU disabled by default in latest Linux patch — caused by OEM key signing that may not be available

Snapdragon X Elite Linux enablement development is not going great. The latest patch has been forced to disable the GPU on one of the X Elite trims due to an OEM blocker preventing the graphics engine from being usable in Linux.

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Intel preps Lunar Lake-optimized adaptive sharpening filter for Linux deployment

Intel is developing a new basic adaptive sharpening filter for upscaling games and photos, specifically for Lunar Lake and Linux operating systems.

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Microsoft finally moves the WSL2 kernel onto a more modern LTS release, but you'll have to install it yourself right now

Microsoft is finally moving WSL2 away from its aging kernel with the first release of a new 6.6 LTS that can be built and installed right now ahead of it being rolled in by default.

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Intel prepping at least five new Battlemage GPU models — new PCI IDs added to Linux 6.11 kernel

Intel has listed five new Battlemage PCI IDs that will be integrated into the next update cycle for the Linux 6.11 kernel. The lack of many IDs hints that Intel's next-gen GPU launch could have far fewer SKUs than its outgoing Arc A-series lineup.

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Single-line Intel Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%

Intel recently released a one-line code patch for its Meteor Lake CPUs, resulting in huge performance wins in Linux. That single line of code fine-tunes the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver.

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Intel throws in the towel on the processors that killed the first Aurora supercomputer — Knights Mill and Knights Landing support removed from LLVM

The last and final play for Intel Xeon Phi: Intel drops support for its MIC x86 processors.

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Linux 6.9 arrives with Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake performance improvements

Linux 6.9 brings with it some performance tuning for Core Ultra Meteor Lake processors, improving performance by up to 10% in some applications.

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If you think PCIe 5.0 runs hot, wait till you see PCIe 6.0's new thermal throttling technique

If you think PCIe 5.0 runs hot, wait till you see the thermal throttling for PCIe 6.0.

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RDNA 3+ edges closer as AMD hints at refreshed GPU architecture in its Linux firmware

Don't expect major changes to the architecture, as that's been all kept for RDNA 4.

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Ubuntu outperforms Windows 11 on the Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS

Phoronix tested two versions of Ubuntu Linux against Windows 11 on the latest Ryzen-powered Framework 16 laptop and discovered that Ubuntu is better performing OS most of the time.

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Arm China bolsters its AI accelerator with open source driver to compete against AMD, Intel, and Apple

Arm China continues to silently strengthen its product stack, now has an AI developers board and open-source drivers for its NPU design.

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Nvidia Grace server CPU can compete with AMD's ludicrously fast Threadripper 7000 — expect an epic battle should team green decide to launch a desktop CPU

Phoronix pitted the GH200 processor against AMD's Threadripper 7000 powerhouse.

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Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head Linux benchmarks

A 39-test comparison of Nvidia's 72-core Grace CPU to AMD's Threadripper 7980X and 7995WX shows Grace on the heels of Threadripper 7000.

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Surprise! Nvidia's ridiculously fast CPU is a surprising beast — tests show how the GH200 fared against AMD's fastest processor, the EPYC 9754, for the performance crown

Phoronix pitted the Nvidia GH200 processor against its main rivals for CPU performance.

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You can run Nvidia CUDA applications natively on Radeon GPUs thanks to ZLUDA, the open-source project that AMD once funded

The chip giant ultimately withdrew its support but we still get to enjoy the fruits of that labour.

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Nvidia's Grace server CPU trades blows with AMD and Intel in detailed review -- outperforms Bergamo, Genoa, and Emerald Rapids in over half of the benchmarks

Nvidia's Grace CPU scored 13 wins against AMD's Genoa and Bergamo and 15 against Intel's Xeon Platinum 8592+ in a review with 23 benchmarks.

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Intel's Clear Linux distribution adds support for APX and AVX10, which aren't out yet

Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10), announced in July 2023 for future Intel CPUs, are now being implemented into Intel's own Linux distribution.

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Linux dev delivers 6% file system performance increase – says ‘it was literally a five minute job’

Jens Axboe, the developer of IO_uring for Linux, delivers software patches that provide a 6% file system performance increase – says the coding ‘was literally a 5 min job’

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