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AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code

Phoronix - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 00:55
Back in September AMD released FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) and at the time they noted the open-source code would be made available "soon". As a nice Christmas present, the FSR3 source code is public as of today...

Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ "Emerald Rapids" Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 23:00
Following the 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" overview, you are likely wondering about the performance claims made by Intel and how they shake up in independent testing as well as how Emerald Rapids competes against AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo. If so this article is for you with the Phoronix benchmarks of the new flagship Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ 64-core processors being tested in both single and dual socket modes.

Intel Launches 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" Server Processors

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 23:00
In addition to announcing the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors, Intel's AI Everywhere event in New York City also served as the launch point for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" server processors. Emerald Rapids is an incremental improvement over Sapphire Rapids with emboldened AI capabilities, energy efficiency improvements, and now up to 64 cores per socket.

Intel Announces Xeon E-2400 & Xeon D-1800/D-2800 CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 23:00
While Intel's AI Everywhere event today was primarily focused on Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptop processors and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" processors, Intel also briefly announced their newest Xeon D and Xeon E series processors...

Intel Launches Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Mobile Processors

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 23:00
At Intel's AI Everywhere event they officially launched their new Core Ultra branded Meteor Lake processors that will begin appearing in new laptops. Intel Core Ultra aims to deliver their most power efficient client processors, deliver around twice the GPU performance of existing integrated graphics, and via the NPU feature more robust AI capabilities.

Dbus-Broker 34 Released For High Performance D-Bus Message Broker

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 19:53
There's been nothing new on the BUS1 front this year for capability-based IPC within the Linux kernel... In fact, the BUS1 out-of-tree kernel module has gone untouched for years now. But out of the BUS1 project has been Dbus-Broker for a high performance D-Bus message broker in user-space that doesn't break existing D-Bus compatibility. Out today is the newest version of that project closely tied to systemd developers...

Arch Linux ALHP Adds x86-64-v4 Repository For Packages Built With AVX-512

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 19:36
The unofficial "ALHP" repositories for Arch Linux have begun offering an x86-64-v4 tuned repository for packages built against this current highest x86-64 micro-architecture feature level for the latest Intel and AMD processors with AVX-512 support...

KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 19:26
While there has been much talk this year about KDE Plasma 6.0 on the desktop as it gears up for release at the end of February, there's been less talk about the Plasma Mobile work for having the KDE stack on smartphones. But it turns out some progress is quietly being made on KDE Plasma Mobile for bringing it aligned with the "6" platform...

openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 19:00
For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected...

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