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Intel Core i9 12900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 5950X On Linux 6.0

Phoronix - Thu, 09/15/2022 - 02:50
Ahead of Intel Raptor Lake and AMD Zen 4, it's a lot of fresh CPU re-testing at Phoronix under Linux with the bleeding-edge software stack of the latest Linux kernel as well as many new/updated benchmarks, the latest motherboard BIOSes, and more. As over the past year there has been a lot of work by Intel open-source engineers around better tuning the Linux kernel for their hybrid architecture, here are some fresh side-by-side benchmarks of the Intel Core i9 12900K against the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X.

RADV Driver Sees Dramatic Improvement To Reduce CPU Overhead For Draw Calls

Phoronix - Thu, 09/15/2022 - 02:46
Mike Blumenkrantz has been working under contract for Valve on the open-source Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation for Mesa but that work has carried over into the Mesa Vulkan drivers too where there is common overlap. His recent work has been focused on lowering the CPU overhead of some operations with the RADV Vulkan driver...

systemd's mkosi-initrd Talked Up As Better Alternative To Current Initrd Handling

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 21:30
Red Hat engineer and systemd developer Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek presented on Monday at the Linux Plumbers Conference on a new design for inital RAM disks (initrd) making use of the new systemd mkosi-initrd project...

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