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Tuned AMD Zen 4 Scheduler Model Lands In LLVM 17 Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 03/09/2023 - 04:15
Back in December initial AMD Zen 4 "znver4" support was merged for the LLVM/Clang 16 compiler. While the "-march=znver4" targeting at least flips on the newly-added AVX-512 instructions with these AMD processors, it was re-using the existing scheduler model from Zen 3. Finally today a tuned Zen 4 scheduler model has landed for what will be found in the LLVM 17 compiler later this year...

Mesa 22.3.7 Released To End Out The Series

Phoronix - Thu, 03/09/2023 - 03:30
Mesa 22.3.7 has been released as the last planned point release for that driver Q4'2022 driver series...

Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 / DDR5-5600

Phoronix - Thu, 03/09/2023 - 02:00
Micron recently sent over their latest Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 and DDR5-5600 memory kits for testing with these low cost options for running with the latest Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake and AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors. Here's a look at how these affordable DDR5 memory options are performing and a look at the Linux workloads that can benefit from higher frequency memory.

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