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AMD EPYC 4565P & EPYC 4585PX Benchmarks Against Xeon 6369P: EPYC 4005 Champions Entry-Level Server Performance

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 21:00
With today's announcement of the AMD EPYC 4005P "Grado" entry-level server processors, up for review today are the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-end Zen 5 processors for budget server builds and basic bare metal server hosting. With the prior-generation EPYC 4004 series AMD was already leaving over Intel's entry-level Xeon E processors that have become rather embarrassing for the company with its stagnate line-up of low-cost server processors. Now with the AMD EPYC 4005 series, AMD is in an even stronger position and providing a total knock-out to the new Xeon 6300P competition headlined by the Xeon 6369P flagship model.

AMD EPYC 4005 Series Launches For Entry-Level Zen 5 Servers

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 21:00
Last year AMD launched the EPYC 4004 series for taking Ryzen based processor designs into the EPYC segment for entry-level servers with ECC memory support, server designs with BMCs, and various enterprise software certifications and industry qualifications. Today they are launching the EPYC 4005 series as their new Zen 5 based offerings for entry-level / budget server deployments and other instances when not needing as much compute power or connectivity and other high-end features found with the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors.

Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 17:47
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04...

Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 17:00
The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...

Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 16:00
Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards...

NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 15:00
The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the "KeplerB" / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors...

GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released Due To Several Security Vulnerabilities

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:26
GNU Screen 5.0.1 has been released to address several security issues...

Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:00
Following Monday's public disclosure of the "Training Solo" security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process...

Haiku OS Adds Support For More AMD Polaris GPUs & Other Changes In April

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:00
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their April 2025 progress report...

Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs

Tue, 05/13/2025 - 01:00
The VUSec security researchers are at it again... The embargo is now lifted on another set of of security vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors as well as Arm core designs. This new vulnerability is dubbed Training Solo...

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 18:00
We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful integrated Radeon 8060S graphics, 128GB of system memory, a nice 14-inch 2.8K display, and other top-end features to provide a dominating laptop powerhouse. In today's article are the very initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC under Linux with a focus on the CPU capabilities: a separate article also out today is looking at the AMD Radeon 8060S graphics on Linux.

AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 18:00
As shown in today's article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that's only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally interesting topic for Linux users considering a Strix Halo laptop or desktop, this article is centered around the integrated Radeon 8060S graphics support and performance under Linux.

Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:00
At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kernel. An updated version of these Nouveau driver patches for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs were posted overnight...

Support For New RISC-V SiFive Vendor Extensions On The Way For Linux 6.16

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 14:00
Queued within the development tree for the RISC-V processor code for the Linux kernel is supporting several new vendor-specific ISA extensions for SiFive RISC-V CPU cores...

Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Working Toward HDR Support

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software...

DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 Released With Fixes To Help QEMU & Chrome

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2...

Linux 6.15-rc6 Released With AMD Performance Fix & Other Bugs Addressed

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 07:15
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks...

Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 05:10
At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel. The fix for that significant performance regression was merged today ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15-rc6 release...

Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 04:50
Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers...

Intel Arc Graphics B570 & B580 Gaming Performance On Linux For Mid 2025

Sun, 05/11/2025 - 22:25
A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring in recent weeks around seeing updated Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards. So for your viewing pleasure today is a look at the Arc Graphics B580 and B570 graphics cards on Ubuntu 25.04 for showing how the graphics performance have improved with the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack since launch.

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