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LLVM Clang 16 vs. GCC 13 Compiler Performance On AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa"

Phoronix - Tue, 05/30/2023 - 23:42
With the recent stable releases of LLVM's Clang 16 and GCC 13 compilers there is now initial AMD Zen 4 "znver4" support in these open-source compilers. Curious about the performance difference between these two compilers on the very newest AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" server processors, I ran some LLVM Clang 16.0 and GCC 13.1 benchmarks on the flagship EPYC 9654 2P Linux server.

Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix

Phoronix - Tue, 05/30/2023 - 22:02
Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 6.3.5 today along with the 5.15.114, 5.10.181, 5.4.244, 4.9.284, and 4.4.316 point releases for those long-term (LTS) kernel versions...

NVIDIA R535 Linux Beta Brings New Vulkan Extensions, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol

Phoronix - Tue, 05/30/2023 - 21:18
NVIDIA has a nice treat to end out May for Linux users by publishing their first beta build in the R535 feature series...

Purism Librem Server v2 Announced: $2999 USD For A 9th Gen Core i3 With 16GB RAM

Phoronix - Tue, 05/30/2023 - 20:45
The folks at Purism have announced their latest product in the form of the Librem Server v2. Starting out at $2999 USD, these new servers are built around four-year-old 9th Gen Core CPUs already discontinued by Intel...

Intel VPU To Be Found On All Meteor Lake SKUs, Intel Seeding Open-Source Projects

Phoronix - Tue, 05/30/2023 - 19:46
Intel this week is using Computex 2023 to make some disclosures around next-generation Meteor Lake processors for laptops. The most exciting aspect relayed in advance during our press briefing last week was that all Intel Meteor Lake processor SKUs will feature their new Vision/Versatile Processing Unit...

AMD Working On WiFi RFI Interference Mitigation For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 05/30/2023 - 18:31
As a step toward further improving AMD laptop support under Linux, AMD engineers have been working on WiFi radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation support for Linux with their latest laptops...

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