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AMD Extends PyTorch + ROCm Support To The Radeon RX 7900 XT

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 01:12
Ahead of AMD's Advancing AI event coming up quickly in early December, AMD today announced ROCm and PyTorch support has been extended to supporting the Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card...

Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

Phoronix - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 22:38
With currently reviewing the HP Z6 G5 A workstation powered by the new 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Zen 4 processor, one of the areas I was curious about was how well HP's tuned Microsoft Windows 11 compares to that of Linux. In this article is looking at how the Microsoft Windows 11 performance is out-of-the-box with the HP Z6 G5 A workstation as configured by HP versus a clean install of Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.5 kernel.

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Phoronix - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 21:45
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Linux 6.8 Looks To Upgrade Its Zstd Code For Better Compression Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 21:25
Back in Linux 6.2 the in-kernel Zstd compression/decompression code was updated against the Zstd 1.5 upstream state. Now for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year the plan is for updating to Zstd 1.5.5 that should provide better compression performance...

Microsoft Looking To Add Windows Media Foundation Transforms "MFTs" To Mesa

Phoronix - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 20:05
In addition to Microsoft enabling OpenGL 4.6 over Direct3D 12 via Mesa, Microsoft engineers have also been working on some video improvements within the Mesa code-base...

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