Quantifying The AVX-512 Performance Impact With AMD Zen 5 - Ryzen 9 9950X Benchmarks With the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux review out of the way yesterday, today's benchmarking of the Ryzen 9000 series is looking closely at the AVX-512 performance impact. With the Ryzen 9000 series the Zen 5 cores have a full 512-bit data-path compared to the "double pumped" 256-bit data path found in the Zen 4 processors as well as the Strix …

Quantifying The AVX-512 Performance Impact With AMD Zen 5 - Ryzen 9 9950X Benchmarks Review - Phoronix

With the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux review out of the way yesterday, today's benchmarking of the Ryzen 9000 series is looking c...

Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache Mesa 24.2 is out today as stable for this quarterly feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and other platforms...

Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache - Phoronix

Mesa 24.2 is out today as stable for this quarterly feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems a...

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads. Today the review embargo lifts on the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X and as expected given the prior 6-core/8-core tests: these new chips are wild!…

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance Review - Phoronix

Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux wo...

AMD To Provide Update On Long-Term Strategy For Open-Source Firmware Next month AMD will be providing an update on their long-term strategy for open-source firmware. Central to their open-source firmware plans is their OpenSIL effort that remains in development for eventually replacing AGESA on future generations of Ryzen and EPYC platforms...

AMD To Provide Update On Long-Term Strategy For Open-Source Firmware - Phoronix

Next month AMD will be providing an update on their long-term strategy for open-source firmware

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system is out with their latest status update that highlights various improvements made in recent weeks...

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements - Phoronix

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system is out with their latest status update that highlights various improvements made in recent weeks.

Framework Laptop 13 With Intel Core Ultra Series, 2.8K 120Hz Display Back in May the folks at Framework Computer announced Framework Laptop 13 support for the Intel Core Ultra Series 1 (Meteor Lake) alongside announcing a new 2.8K 120Hz display option, a new web camera upgrade, and new colors for their expansion cards. Today marks the review embargo expiration with the hardware now shipping. Here's my initial look at the Intel Core Ultra …

Framework Laptop 13 With Intel Core Ultra Series, 2.8K 120Hz Display - Phoronix

Back in May the folks at Framework Computer announced Framework Laptop 13 support for the Intel Core Ultra Series 1 (Meteor Lake) alongside announc...

Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI With all the craze around "AI" and hoping to foster more open-source AI models, the Linux Foundation has welcomed the Open Model Initiative (OMI) into its umbrella of open-source initiatives to help foster high quality, openly-licensed AI models...

Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI - Phoronix

With all the craze around 'AI' and hoping to foster more open-source AI models, the Linux Foundation has welcomed the Open Model Initiati...

Updated XZ Code For The Kernel Looks Like It's Ready For Linux 6.12 The past few months have seen patches for updating the XZ (de)compression code within the Linux kernel that's been a lengthy process in part due to the XZ backdoor situation earlier this year and the reputable XZ developers in turn being busy cleaning up that mess. In any event it appears that the updated XZ code for the Linux kernel is now on track for mainlining come L…

Updated XZ Code For The Kernel Looks Like It's Ready For Linux 6.12 - Phoronix

The past few months have seen patches for updating the XZ (de)compression code within the Linux kernel that's been a lengthy process in part d...

Wine-Staging 9.15 Adds Fixes For Lotus Approach & Need For Speed: Underground Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.15, Wine-Staging 9.15 is now available with 376 patches currently being applied atop the upstream codebase...

Wine-Staging 9.15 Adds Fixes For Lotus Approach & Need For Speed: Underground - Phoronix

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.15, Wine-Staging 9.15 is now available with 376 patches currently being applied atop the upstream c...

KDE Rolling Out SVG-Based Cursor Themes, Performance Improvements KDE developers remain very busy this summer working toward the Plasma 6.2 release with exciting new features...

KDE Rolling Out SVG-Based Cursor Themes, Performance Improvements - Phoronix

KDE developers remain very busy this summer working toward the Plasma 6.2 release with exciting new features.