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AMD P-State EPP Performance With EPYC On Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Mon, 04/03/2023 - 23:30
Among the many new features coming in Linux 6.3 -- including many AMD additions -- is the AMD P-State EPP "Energy Performance Preference" support being merged for modern Ryzen and EPYC systems. AMD P-State EPP can further help tune the performance and power efficiency of AMD Linux systems beyond the existing basic AMD P-State driver support and address some existing deficiencies. Here are some benchmarks of the AMD P-State and ACPI CPUFreq driver configurations benchmarked on an EPYC Milan-X server with the in-development Linux 6.3 kernel.

Mesa Zink Change Leads To 50% Reduction In Memory Utilization

Phoronix - Mon, 04/03/2023 - 22:18
A rather profound change is pending for Mesa 23.1 that should lead to this OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver's memory utilization being cut in half for most games without negatively impacting the performance and likely closing a number of bugs in the process...

Rust-Written Coreutils v0.0.18 Released With Improved GNU Compatibility

Phoronix - Mon, 04/03/2023 - 21:05
One of several notable open-source projects to rewrite key Linux software components with the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language is uutils as an alternative to GNU Coreutils. Released this weekend was uutils v0.0.18 that continues to enhance compatibility with the upstream GNU Coreutils programs...

Intel Prepares AMX-COMPLEX Support For GCC & LLVM Compilers

Phoronix - Mon, 04/03/2023 - 20:36
Intel compiler engineers have sent out the initial GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler patches for enabling the newly-disclosed AMX-COMPLEX extension with next year's Xeon Scalable "Granite Rapids" processors...

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