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The Incredible Performance & Power Efficiency Of AMD Zen 1 vs. Zen 4C

Phoronix - Fri, 01/26/2024 - 01:50
While we are beginning to see AMD Zen 4C cores in client systems, these smaller cores have already proven themselves very interesting and capable with the AMD EPYC Bergamo high core count server processors and the extremely power efficient EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors. For showing how far Zen has come in power efficiency, I thought it would be fun to show how the original flagship EPYC 7601 "Zen 1" processor with 32-cores / 64-threads compared to Zen 4C with the EPYC 8324P(N) 32-core processors. But as that isn't even the top-end Siena part, I also tossed in the 64-core EPYC 8534PN too for a top of stack look for the current EPYC 8004 line-up.

Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 22:00
The Khronos Group today announced their Vulkan Roadmap 2024 milestone as a specification for their latest API features and meeting the needs of 2024 graphics processors and other hardware. Vulkan Roadmap 2024 builds upon Vulkan 1.3 and the Vulkan Roadmap 2022 specifications to deliver next-generation capabilities...

GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 19:51
GNOME Network Displays is the software that allows streaming your GNOME desktop to WiFi Display devices using PipeWire. Last week GNOME Network Displays 0.91 was released with some big improvements to this software...

Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 19:41
In addition to OBS adding AV1 VA-API support, some more good Linux video acceleration news this week is Valve enabling VA-API DRM hardware-accelerated video decoding when using Remote Play with the newest Steam beta...

OpenVINO 2023.3 Brings Full Support For Intel Emerald Rapids, Broader GenAI & LLMs

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 19:28
Intel engineers on Wednesday released OpenVINO 2023.3 as the latest major update to this leading open-source AI toolkit. The OpenVINO 2023.3 brings "full support" for new Emerald Rapids and Meteor Lake processors, other Intel hardware support improvements, and continuing to expand support around generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs)...

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