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NVIDIA GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstations

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 23:55
Earlier this month I posted some initial CPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper up against AMD EPYC Zen 4 and Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids processors. That was a very interesting battle and showed the interesting capabilities of the 72 Arm Neoverse-V2 cores paired with HBM3 memory. With this GPTshop.ai GH200 system actually being in workstation form, I also ran some additional benchmarks looking at the CPU capabilities of the GH200 compared to AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series workstations.

Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 23:24
Red Hat announced today some changes to how they handle their beta releases for minor updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

New Linux Patches Aim To Help Improve Intel Meteor Lake Performance & Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 19:40
There are some new Linux kernel patches that were posted by Intel on Monday that aim to help enhance the overall performance and power efficiency of new Meteor Lake laptop processors under Linux...

X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 19:27
There are still no signs of a new X.Org Server feature release coming in the near-term with most of the major stakeholders divesting from the xorg-server besides the XWayland portion of the code-base. But for those interested in the past few days there have been some NetBSD/OpenBSD build fixes to the X.Org Server as well as clearing out some remnants of old compiler support...

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