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AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin Dense" Delivers Better Performance/Power Efficiency vs. AmpereOne 192-Core ARM CPU

([Processors] 10 October 02:00 PM EDT 21 Comments)

Complementing the AMD EPYC 9575F / 9755 / 9965 performance benchmarks article looking at those Turin processors up against prior AMD EPYC CPUs and the Intel Xeon competition, this article is looking squarely at the 192-core EPYC 9965 "Turin Dense" processor compared to Ampere Computing's AmpereOne A192-32X flagship processor. It's an x86_64 vs. AArch64 battle at the leading 192 core count for performance and CPU power efficiency.


Intel Announces Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake CPUs

([Computers] 10 October 11:00 AM EDT 25 Comments)

As part of a busy day in the CPU world, Intel has lifted the embargo on the Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" desktop processors. This isn't the review embargo but just an overview on this new generation succeeding 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" on the desktop.


Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX

([Apple] 10 October 10:35 AM EDT Asahi Gaming Toolkit)

Alyssa Rosenzweig provided an update today at the XDC 2024 conference in Montreal on the open-source "Honeykrisp" Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs within Mesa and related work as part of the Asahi Linux project to provide for a nice Linux gaming experience atop the ARM-based Apple devices.


Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades

([Ubuntu] 10 October 09:20 AM EDT Ubuntu 24.10)

The Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" ISOs are now officially available as the newest six-month update to Ubuntu Linux.


Intel Begins Working On Next-Gen Xe3 Graphics With Linux 6.13

([Intel] 10 October 06:25 AM EDT Intel Xe3 Graphics)

While Intel Xe2 graphics have just debuted with Lunar Lake and we are awaiting Battlemage discrete GPUs with Xe2, Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers have begun work enabling Xe3 graphics! Xe3 driver work is now underway for next-generation Intel graphics.


AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver Posted For Linux

([AMD] 10 October 06:38 AM EDT AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer)

AMD today quietly posted a new open-source Linux kernel driver for review... the AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver. This AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver for Linux is intended to help optimize performance on systems sporting 3D V-Cache such as the AMD Ryzen "X3D" parts and the EPYC "X" processors.


Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" Seeing Up To 16.7x Speedup With Newest Linux Patch

([Linux Kernel] 10 October 06:09 AM EDT RSEQ Cache Local)

For those making use of Restartable Sequences (RSEQ) on Linux systems, there is an enticing performance optimization on the way.


Open3D Engine "O3DE" 24.09 Released With Performance Improvements & More

([Linux Gaming] 9 October 08:25 PM EDT O3DE 24.09)

The Open 3D Engine as the open-source game engine developed under the Linux Foundation umbrella and began as an advanced version of the Amazon Lumberyard engine is out with a new feature release. Open 3D Engine "O3DE" 24.09 is out today with a variety of enhancements for this cross-platform game engine.


Ubuntu Server 24.10 Brings Experimental NVMe/TCP Installation Support

([Ubuntu] 9 October 12:40 PM EDT NVMe/TCP Installations)

While not a long-term support release, Ubuntu Server 24.10 is delivering an interesting proof-of-concept for supporting NVMe/TCP based installations.


Vulkan 1.3.297 Introduces VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready

([Vulkan] 9 October 12:12 PM EDT VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready)

Slipping under my radar until now was the Vulkan API 1.3.297 spec update released last week that introduces a new extension, VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready.


Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake

([Operating Systems] 9 October 09:07 AM EDT 44 Comments)

Following my recent Intel Core Ultra 7 200V "Lunar Lake" Linux benchmarks and looking at the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics (including Windows 11 vs. Linux already), you may be wondering about the Lunar Lake CPU performance between Windows and Linux... Here are some benchmarks of the ASUS Zenbook S 14 with Core Ultra 7 256V under Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.10 Linux.


Microsoft Continues Working On Hyper-V Dom0 Support For Linux

([Microsoft] 9 October 08:41 AM EDT Hyper-V Dom0)

Microsoft Linux engineers have continued preparing the Linux kernel to support Hyper-V Dom0 for Linux to run as the root partition.


Intel Revs Linux Driver Patches To Fend Off PCIe Thermal Issues Via Bandwidth Reduction

([Hardware] 9 October 06:31 AM EDT bwctrl)

Originally published last summer were patches from Intel for the Linux kernel to introduce a PCI Express bandwidth controller Linux driver to provide a PCIe cooling mechanism via bandwidth reduction to devices in order to prevent thermal issues. One year later this driver continues to be worked on and today brought the eighth iteration of these patches.


GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance

([GNOME] 9 October 08:55 AM EDT GNOME Triple Buffering)

The long-in-development GNOME triple buffering support that is patched into the Ubuntu and Debian builds and available for years in patch form might need to undergo a redesign. That's to better accommodate the NVIDIA Linux driver and likely help other non-Mesa graphics drivers too.


GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support

([GNU] 9 October 06:14 AM EDT Itanium Sticking Around)

The GCC 14 compiler marked Itanium IA-64 support as obsolete with plans to remove that Intel architecture in GCC 15. But for now at least the Itanium Linux compiler support has seen some reprieve with it being un-deprecated.


NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12

([Linux Storage] 8 October 03:23 PM EDT NTFS3 Driver)

While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version.


Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13

([Arm] 8 October 02:26 PM EDT Arm Guarded Control Stack)

For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming.


Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800

([Processors] 8 October 10:40 AM EDT 7 Comments)

With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations. Thus a well-rounded look at the single Xeon 6980P performance compared to other single and dual socket Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server processors.


Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model

([Intel] 8 October 09:51 AM EDT oneAPI Rendering Toolkit)

Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to propose code changes. But Intel has now decided to make these projects more like traditional open-source projects and welcoming community contributions -- including from different hardware vendors.


KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing

([KDE] 8 October 06:58 AM EDT Plasma 6.2)

KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment.


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I opened the drawer of my little desk and a single letter fell out, a
letter from my mother, written in pencil, one of her last, with unfinished
words and an implicit sense of her departure. It's so curious: one can
resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. But
then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window... or one notices
that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed... or
a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
-- Letters From Colette