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Intel i9-12900K Alder Lake Linux Performance In Different P/E Core Configurations

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 22:06
One of the much requested Linux benchmarks since the debut of Intel Alder Lake last month has been for seeing the Core i9 12900K in different core configurations with its mix of P and E cores. Now that the Linux kernel activity has begun settling down around Alder Lake, here are those benchmarks for reference purposes with toggling Hyper Threading and different P and E core counts enabled.

Vulkan 1.2.203 Released With Many Documentation Updates, New Extensions

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 20:36
Vulkan 1.2.203 is out with many fixes/updates to the specification documentation to end out the year as well as introducing three new extensions...

helloSystem 0.7 Released With Big Improvements For This Leading Desktop BSD OS

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 18:32
For those with extra time around the end-of-year holidays, helloSystem 0.7 is now available as the newest update to this leading BSD-based desktop operating system that is inspired by Apple macOS but powered by FreeBSD...

AVX-Optimized SM3 Hashing For The Linux Kernel Nets Up To 38% Improvement

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 18:06
An Alibaba engineer is proposing a standalone SM3 crypto library within the Linux kernel and with optimizations for x86_64 AVX usage nets up to a 38% performance improvement for this crypto algorithm...

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