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Linux 6.2 Likely To Enjoy Measurable Power-Savings While Idle Or Lightly Loaded

Phoronix - Thu, 10/27/2022 - 02:55
Work carried out by Google engineers and others around the Linux kernel's read-copy update (RCU) synchronization mechanism to make it "lazier" is helping with 5~10% power-savings for idle or lightly-loaded systems. This "Lazy RCU" work is likely to be merged for the Linux 6.2 kernel merge window in December...

Intel Core i9 13900K Linux Benchmarks - Performing Very Well On Ubuntu

Phoronix - Wed, 10/26/2022 - 23:00
Last week Intel began shipping their 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors. As noted in that launch-day article last week, unfortunately I wasn't able to deliver my usual Linux performance review in time due to hitting some DDR5 issues with my test platform, but those have now been resolved with a new Z790 motherboard. So as the first of my Raptor Lake Linux benchmarks, here is a look at how the top-end Core i9 13900K performs against the AMD Ryzen 7000 series on Ubuntu Linux along with the older Intel/AMD processors.

Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing Performance Further Improved - PLOC BVH Builder

Phoronix - Wed, 10/26/2022 - 20:00
In recent months there has been a lot of RADV ray-tracing optimizations and improvements for maturing the ray-tracing support by this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa. The RADV ray-tracing performance is about to take another step forward with a pending merge request providing a PLOC BVH builder that can improve the Quake II RTX performance by around 33%...

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