For those still using an AMD GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" GPU like the Radeon R9 290/390 series, HD 7790 / 8870, or other Radeon Rx 200 / Rx 300 series GPUs, there is an exciting early Christmas present this year. Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team sent out the patch series on Sunday for enabling the GCN 1.1 GPUs to use the newer AMDGPU driver on Linux by default in place of the existing "Radeon" driver. This can mean better performance, Vulkan driver support out-of-the-box, and other improvements compared to using that older Radeon driver...
Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSEfficient and reproducible LLM inference: Inside Red Hat’s MLPerf Inference v5.1 submissionsOctober 31, 2025 Naveen Miriyalu, Diane Feddema, Michey Mehta, Keith Valin, Michael Goin, Ashish Kamra, Jean HsiaoAs generative AI (gen AI) workloads become central to enterprise applications, benchmarking their inference performance has never been more critical for understanding the limits of their capabilities. In MLPerf Inference v5.1, Meta’s Llama 3.1-8B was featured for the first time. This post presents Red Hat�
The biggest frustration for modern developers isn't the code; it's the friction. It’s the constant context switching, the endless search for the right internal document, and the risk of building on outdated standards. 50% of developers reported losing 10+ hours a week to non-coding tasks, which can equate to a ~$1.6 million loss per 100 engineers per year. Organizations need to empower developers with a self-service experience that is fast, highly personalized and grounded in the company's unique development standards.That's why we’re excited to announce Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8, the late