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With the AMD EPYC 4004 series that was announced in May and we have delivered benchmarks of the entire EPYC 4004 stack from the 4-core SKU up through the 16-core model with 3D V-Cache, there are many advantages over Intel's Xeon E-2400 series competition. In addition to going up to 16 cores versus 8 with the Xeon E-2400 series, the more competitive pricing, the 3D V-Cache SKUs, and 28 PCIe lanes rather than 20, the AMD EPYC 4004 models also support DDR5-5200 memory where as the Intel Raptor Lake E-2400 models are bound to DDR5-4800. In this follow-up testing is a look at the AMD EPYC 4004 performance both at DDR5-4800 and DDR5-5200 speeds for showing the performance difference.

AMD EPYC 4364P & 4564P @ DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5200 vs. Intel Xeon E-2488 Review  Phoronix

Kali Linux 2024.2 launches with updated desktops and bug fixes  Notebookcheck.net

Proton Pass Desktop App Released for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

With this week's Computex announcement by AMD of the Ryzen AI 300 series laptop processors built atop Zen 5, one of the pleasant aspects has been several laptop models being announced already to be powered by either the Ryzen AI 9 365 or Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 flagship models. Some models are also already available for pre-order ahead of launch day. This is quite nice compared to in the past there was often at times quite a delay between the initial AMD Ryzen mobile announcements and being able to (pre)order any hardware. And thus I've already been looking around to coordinate near launch day Linux testing of the new AMD Zen 5 powered Ryzen AI 300 series hardware...

Shopping For A Launch-Day AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Laptop For Linux Testing  Phoronix

VMware ESXi targeted by TargetCompany for Linux ransomware  SC Media

Proton Pass comes to macOS and Linux  BetaNews

Moonlight PC for game streaming via Sunshine gets HDR support for Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Proton Pass Desktop App Released for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

Honeykrisp is a new conformant Linux Vulkan driver for Apple M1  GamingOnLinux

Proton Pass Launched for Linux and macOS With a Steal Deal for its Plus Plan  It's FOSS News

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview  Phoronix

Microsoft has published its first tagged preview of the upcoming Azure Linux 3.0 operating system...

Updated AMD GPU Firmware Makes Valve's Steam Deck More Robust Against Buggy Apps  Phoronix

AMD has published a new set of AMDGPU firmware binaries for Linux users. In particular, this should benefit AMD APUs the most and these firmware improvements were focused on Valve's Steam Deck to make the device more robust against buggy applications...

This week's pull request of power management fixes for the Linux 6.10 kernel has an important change for the in-tree cpupower utility to fix P-State frequency reporting on upcoming Zen 5 (Family 1Ah) processors...

Linux 6.10 Fixes AMD Zen 5 CPU Frequency Reporting With cpupower  Phoronix

With yesterday marking the 20th birthday of Phoronix, I was curious what the most popular news articles were over these past two decades. There's a lot of compiler fodder, news from the early days of AMD Ryzen, Linus Torvalds commentary, and more...

The latest funding for open-source from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is providing €300,000 over the course of the next year for improving GNU libmicrohttpd for building high performance HTTP web servers...