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AMD Introduces Ryzen 8000G Series & Even New Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 23:30
AMD used CES 2024 to announce their new Ryzen 8000G series desktop processors and even introducing some new Ryzen 5000 series SKUs. Here are the key details from today's AMD Ryzen announcements while awaiting hardware for Linux testing.

AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7600 XT For 1080p~1440p Gaming At $329

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 23:30
In addition to announcing the Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series processors, AMD kicked off CES 2024 in Las Vegas by announcing the Radeon RX 7600 XT as their newest RDNA3 discrete graphics card for gamers.

Linux 6.8 Scheduler Changes Include New EEVDF Fast Path, Additional Scheduler Tuning

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 22:41
Ingo Molnar sent in all of the scheduler changes this morning for the now-open Linux 6.8 merge window...

Linux 6.8 EDAC Ready To Deal With Errors On AMD AI Accelerators & Intel Meteor Lake P/PS

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 20:00
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates for Linux 6.8 have been submitted for dealing with ECC reporting under Linux and the other error detection/recovery driver updates...

GTK Lands Their New Unified GPU Renderer, Vulkan Build Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 19:32
There's been much work recently on a new unified renderer for the GTK toolkit. Yesterday a merge request was opened and already merged that enables Vulkan by default...

AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 19:23
While much of the focus by graphics vendors these days is on their Vulkan driver support/performance and less so about OpenGL in 2024, AMD's open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Linux systems is still showing no signs of slowing down and still scoring more performance victories...

Rust Toolchain Upgrade Submitted For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 19:09
Rust For Linux maintainer Miguel Ojeda was among those submitting early pull requests of code feature changes for the now-open Linux 6.8 kernel cycle...

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