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Recently there were Phoronix benchmarks looking at the Intel Battlemage GPU compute performance since last year when the Arc B580 graphics card launched as well as the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance for the B580 on Linux since launch. There was much progress on the open-source Intel Linux graphics drivers at large this year but especially for Battlemage. Following that a Phoronix Premium reader asked about seeing some fresh Llama.cpp AI benchmarks with its Vulkan back-end now for the Arc B580 compared to competing AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards. Here are those benchmarks as requested.

Intel Arc B580 vs. AMD Radeon RX 9000 vs. NVIDIA RTX 50 Series For Llama.cpp Vulkan Performance  Phoronix

While just half-way through the Linux 6.19 merge window, over the weekend I began running some benchmarks of the current Linux 6.19 Git state compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. There are some minor performance improvements to note in a few of the tests on the first system I tested but also some regressions at this very early pre-RC1 state of the Linux 6.19 kernel...

Early Benchmarks Of Linux 6.19 Git Raising Some Concerns  Phoronix

One of the new Linux engineering initiatives out of AMD is working to further enhance Linux performance on today's large core count systems by introducing push-based load balancing...

AMD Working On Push-Based Load Balancing For Linux To Further Enhance Performance  Phoronix

Firefox 146 Is Out with Native Support for Fractional Scaled Displays on Wayland  9to5Linux

Homebrew 5.0.4 Update Adds Flatpak Support for Cross-Platform Apps  WebProNews

This new Linux platform will let you update your next car at home - as soon as 2027  ZDNET

5 free, open-source card games for bored Linux users  How-To Geek

This Could Be The Linux Phone We All Have Been Waiting For  It's FOSS

Best Programmer Laptops 2025 : Top Picks for Coding, AI, Linux & More  Geeky Gadgets

I rediscovered my longtime Linux favorite - thanks to a spin I didn't see coming  ZDNET

Several Logitech Devices Seeing New/Improved Support With Linux 6.19  Phoronix

All of the Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem updates were merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel merge window. Standing out this cycle on the HID side are seeing new/improved support for several Logitech devices...

I2C in Linux 6.19 brought support for Rust-written I2C drivers. The newer I3C "Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit" interface changes have now been merged and the big feature there is HDR support. Not to be confused with the more common High Dynamic Range acronym usage for HDR, HDR in the I3C context is for the "High Data Rate" mode for facilitating faster data transfers...

Linux I3C Gains "HDR" Support For Faster Data Transfers  Phoronix

This new phone could be the most unique handset of the year, thanks to its custom operating system and physical privacy switch  TechRadar

The ARM64 code changes were merged last week into the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. The most notable of the ARM64 architecture changes this cycle is landing the Arm MPAM driver for Arm's Memory System Resource Partitioning and Monitoring...

Arm MPAM Driver Upstreamed To The Linux 6.19 Kernel  Phoronix