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Summing Up AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs. Core i9 10900K, Ryzen 5 3600XT vs. Core i5 10600K

Phoronix - Wed, 07/08/2020 - 00:00
Complementing this morning's AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT / Ryzen 7 3800XT / Ryzen 9 3900XT Linux benchmarks, here is a side-by-side look at the Ryzen 9 3900XT up against the Core i9 10900K and the Ryzen 5 3600XT up against the Core i5 10600K for these competing processors. This is a quick look at how these competing models stack up in the 130+ benchmarks utilized so far...

GNOME 3.37.3 Released With More Features, Code Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:46
GNOME 3.37.3 is out today as the newest development snapshot working towards the September release of GNOME 3.38...

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT / Ryzen 7 3800XT / Ryzen 9 3900XT Linux Performance In 130+ Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:00
After the AMD Ryzen 3000XT series was announced last month, these new higher-clocked Zen 2 desktop processors are shipping today. Here are 130+ benchmarks on each of the Ryzen 5 3600XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and Ryzen 9 3900XT parts compared to various Intel and AMD CPUs. Tests under Ubuntu Linux and also complemented by performance-per-Watt / power and performance-per-dollar data points.

OpenXR Conformance Tests Open-Sourced

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:00
The Khronos Group today continued with their relatively recent trend of the past few years of open-sourcing their conformance tests. The OpenXR conformance tests are now open-source...

Zstd'ing The Kernel Might See Mainline With Linux 5.9 For Faster Boot Times

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 19:15
It looks like the long ongoing work for compressing the Linux kernel image with Zstd might finally soon be mainlined, potentially for next month's Linux 5.9 cycle kicking off as the "v6" patches sent out this week were done as a Git pull request...

CentOS Stream Begins Seeing RHEL 8.3 Bits, Real-Time Repository

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 19:00
Introduced alongside CentOS 8 last year was CentOS Stream as a developer-focused, rolling-release of CentOS/RHEL. With those processes getting squared away and CentOS recently debuting its RHEL 8.2 rebuild, CentOS Stream is beginning to see new and interesting material...

GNU Guix Begins Publishing System Images Based On Hurd

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 18:55
Earlier this year was news of GNU Guix wanting to replace their Linux kernel usage with the Hurd microkernel. For those interested, the project recently began producing system images with indeed Hurd wired up for this software distribution...

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