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AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Offers Competitive Workstation Graphics Performance/Value

Phoronix - Mon, 11/03/2025 - 23:20
Last week the AMD Radeon PRO R9700 officially began shipping for that new AI-minded workstation/professional graphics card built on RDNA4 and packing 32GB of RAM to accommodate large language models (LLMs) especially with multi-GPU configurations. While the focus of the product has been all about AI workloads, you may be wondering about the graphics capabilities of the Radeon AI PRO R9700 given the lack of any other "Radeon PRO 9000" series product at this point. In today's testing is a look at the workstation graphics capabilities for the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700.

RadeonSI ACO vs. LLVM Backends For AMD Strix Halo

Phoronix - Mon, 11/03/2025 - 21:52
With the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver now defaulting to the ACO compiler back-end for all Radeon GPUs rather than the conventional AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end, I ran some quick comparison benchmarks on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" with Radeon 8060S Graphics for comparison...

Linux 6.19 To Support Microsoft's ACPI Fan Extensions

Phoronix - Mon, 11/03/2025 - 19:29
A few weeks back I reported on Linux kernel patches surfacing for implementing Microsoft's ACPI Fan Extensions. This should help some HP devices and hardware from other OEMs for obtaining fan information reporting under Linux. The good news now is that the patches should be part of the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle...

GCC 16 Lands Improved Memmove Behavior For x86/x86_64 CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 11/03/2025 - 19:17
H.J. Lu, a long-time compiler expert at Intel, merged today improved memmove() behavior for the GNU Compiler Collection ahead of the upcoming GCC 16 release...

Devuan 6.0 Released For Debian 13 Without systemd

Phoronix - Mon, 11/03/2025 - 19:10
Devuan 6.0 "Excalibur" is now available as the fork of Debian GNU/Linux without the use of systemd. Devuan 6.0 is Debian 13 but for "init freedom" lets you use either SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system...

Linux 6.19 Adding Support For The Line 6 POD HD Pro X Audio Effects Processor

Phoronix - Mon, 11/03/2025 - 19:05
The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel will add support for the Line 6 POD HD Pro X audio effects processor that has been in the market for several years now -- the past decade! -- but only now seeing the necessary additions for Linux support...

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