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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Linux Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 05:00
Following yesterday's launch-day AMD Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X benchmarks that showed the utter domination of Zen 3 carrying over just fine in the Linux realm, today we are looking at the performance of the Ryzen 5 5600X on Ubuntu against other Intel/AMD processors. The Ryzen 5 5600X is AMD's new $299 USD part that offers six cores / twelve threads and incredible uplift still over Zen 2 / Zen+ processors while outperforming Intel's Comet Lake competition.

Wine 5.21 Released As One Of The Smaller Updates

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 04:24
Wine 5.21 was just released as one of the smaller bi-weekly updates this year...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Hitting ~95% Speed Of Native OpenGL Driver Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 03:26
Zink as the Mesa Gallium3D implementation putting OpenGL 3.x/4.x on top of the Vulkan API is now offering near-native performance...

GIMP 2.99.2 Released With GTK3 UI, Working Wayland Support, Other Big Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 02:34
GIMP 2.99.2 is finally available as their "first step" towards releasing GIMP 3.0 that most notably transitions from the GTK2 to GTK3 toolkit...

VKD3D-Proton 2.0 Released With More Direct3D 12 Games Now Running On Vulkan

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 02:18
VKD3D-Proton as the Valve-backed fork of Wine's VKD3D for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan is now supporting more features with today's v2.0 release and thus handling more Windows games running on Linux with Steam Play...

Red Hat's "Stalld" Thread Stall Detector + Booster Sees New Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 22:10
Back in August we reported on Red Hat engineers developing Stalld as a new Linux service for detecting stalled threads and also allowing select threads to be boosted based on policy. In the months since Stalld continues to be developed and recently saw new releases...

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