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Intel Rolls Out 10nm Pentium/Celeron CPUs, Previews Rocket Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 05:30
Intel's virtual CES press conference took place today. Here are the highlights from 10nm Pentium Silver and Celeron processors to a preview of Rocket Lake and forthcoming 11th Gen Core H processors.

Clang LTO Support Looks Like It Could Land For Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 04:18
The support for Clang LTO of the Linux kernel for link-time optimizations when using that GCC alternative compiler looks like it will land with Linux 5.12...

Fedora 34 Looking To Tweak Default zRAM Configuration

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 03:34
Last year with Fedora 33 zRAM was switched on by default. The setup was that using a compressed zRAM drive for swap space leads to better performance and in turn a better user experience. Some spins of Fedora have been using swap-on-zRAM by default going back many releases while since F33 it's been used for all spins. Now with Fedora 34 the configuration is being further refined...

Clear Linux Squeezed Out More Open-Source Performance In 2020

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 01:37
Here is a look at how the performance of Intel's Clear Linux compares for the end of 2020 against the end of 2019 and 2018 on the same hardware platform for looking at the Intel performance optimizations made to this open-source Linux distribution. This was another year of Intel engineers making more headway on out-of-the-box Linux performance even though they have been less vocal about the project over the past year.

AMD Publishes More Zen 3 Compiler Support Patches For LLVM

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 23:21
AMD is back on track publishing more Zen 3 compiler support patches for the LLVM compiler stack...

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Sparse Memory Support - Will Help Some D3D12 Games

Phoronix - Mon, 01/11/2021 - 22:05
Adding to the growing list of Mesa 21.0 features is spare memory support for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

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