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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.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 11, 2024

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.

Tom’s Hardware · May 27, 2024

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.

Tom’s Hardware · May 14, 2024

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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.

Tom’s Hardware · May 10, 2024

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.

PC Gamer · Apr 24, 2024

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.

Tom’s Hardware · Apr 18, 2024

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.

Tom’s Hardware · Mar 29, 2024

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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.

TechRadar · Mar 4, 2024

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.

Tom’s Hardware · Feb 23, 2024

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.

TechRadar · Feb 16, 2024

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.

PC Gamer · Feb 14, 2024

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.

Tom’s Hardware · Feb 9, 2024

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.

Tom’s Hardware · Feb 7, 2024

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’

Tom’s Hardware · Jan 16, 2024

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TechRadar · Jan 13, 2024

Intel bets on a secret weapon to beat AMD in some AI workloads — AVX-512 instructions will help Xeon beat Epyc in specific scenarios but Intel will have to work much, much harder to worry AMD

Enabling AVX-512 more than triples performance on various AI-related workloads, according to benchmarking.

PC Gamer · Jan 12, 2024

Valve continues to improve the gaming performance of Linux open source drivers for AMD GPUs, as part of the Mesa project

The Steam Deck will obviously benefit from the work but so to can anyone using a Linux+Radeon combination.

Tom’s Hardware · Dec 30, 2023

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs' Integrated Graphics are 33 Percent Faster Than Prior Gen, Linux Benchmarks Show

Intel Meteor Lake Arc Graphics is pit against its predecessors in a benchmarking run from Phoronix, showing the gen-over-gen improvement in both iGPU performance and iGPU power efficiency from Intel.

Tom’s Hardware · Dec 21, 2023

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and AMD Ryzen 7 7840U have an iGPU-bound benchmarking rematch in Linux

The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H gets benchmarked under Linux against the Ryzen 7 7840U and the Core i7 1280P, revealing significant improvements over past-generation iGPU architecture.

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Tom’s Hardware · Dec 20, 2023

AMD's Ryzen mobile chips beat Intel's new Meteor Lake in Linux benchmarks — Ryzen 7 7840U and Intel Core Ultra 7 155H go head-to-head

The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H was tested against the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U by Phoronix in a gauntlet of over 300 CPU benchmarks. The Core 7 was tested with an Acer Swift Go 14, and the Ryzen 7 with a Framework laptop.

Tom’s Hardware · Nov 10, 2023

AMD Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 3+, and Zen 4 Mobile CPUs Compared in Linux

Phoronix put together a review of four generations of Ryzen mobile CPUs to see the architectural performance improvements AMD has made in a Linux environment.

Tom’s Hardware · Nov 9, 2023

RX 6800 XT is Faster Than RX 7800 XT in Linux Gaming

The Radeon RX 6800 XT reigns supreme in Phoronix's evaluation of the best graphics card for 1080p gaming in Linux.

PC Gamer · Aug 17, 2023

All recent AMD CPUs are affected by the 'Inception' vulnerability

But there's a sign gamers will emerge unscathed.

Tom’s Hardware · Aug 16, 2023

AMD's Inception Fix Causes Up to 54% Performance Drop

AMD's Inception mitigations can cause some serious performance penalties, and the proof can be seen in this wide range of pre-and post-patch benchmark results.

Tom’s Hardware · Aug 10, 2023

Intel's Downfall Mitigations Drop Performance Up to 39%, Tests Show

Linux publication Phoronix evaluates the performance impact of Downfall mitigations on different Intel processors.

Tom’s Hardware · Jul 14, 2023

AVX-512 Works Surprisingly Well on Ryzen 7040 Series Phoenix CPUs

AVX-512 was tested on AMD's latest Zen 4 laptop CPUs, and found to be dominant compared to Intel's latest AVX-512 supported mobile platforms.

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