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Last Minute Linux 6.6 Fixes Address Nine "Unusable" Lenovo AMD Laptops

Phoronix - Sat, 10/28/2023 - 01:20
Linux 6.6 is set to be released as stable this weekend unless Linus Torvalds has reservations and decides to extend the cycle by one week. In any case there are some last minute fixes heading in to fix-up nine different Lenovo laptops with AMD Ryzen SoCs to make the hardware more usable under Linux...

Google Cloud C3D Shows Great Performance With AMD EPYC Genoa

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 23:32
Back in August Google Cloud announced the C3D instances powered by AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors while only last week was C3D promoted to general availability. Curious about the performance of C3D after being impressed by AMD EPYC Genoa bare-metal server performance at Phoronix as well as what I've seen with Genoa in the cloud at Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2 / AWS, here are some benchmarks of the new C3D up against other GCE instances.

9-Way AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 20:32
For those currently weighing between the (currently) nine different AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors for Linux use, here are fresh benchmarks of the Zen 4 desktop CPU line-up while testing with Ubuntu 23.10 and the Linux 6.5 kernel...

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