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Ampere Altra Performance Shows It Can Compete With - Or Even Outperform - AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 07:00
While the talk in recent weeks has been about the performance of Apple's M1 ARM chip and then rumors there might be a 32 core chip in the pipe, there is already something much stronger: Ampere Altra has begun shipping and its flagship 80-core SoC with up to two sockets per server can easily take on the AMD EPYC 7742 "Rome" and Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 "Cascade Lake" performance across a variety of workloads. Here is our initial look at the Ampere Altra performance on Linux in our independent performance benchmarks.

Intel "IGEN6" Driver Comes To Linux 5.11 For In-Band ECC (IBECC)

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 06:54
Initially found with "Elkhart Lake" SoCs and likely to be found on further future Intel client SoCs is the integrated memory controller supporting in-band ECC (IBECC). Coming with Linux 5.11 is the "IGEN6" EDAC driver for handling this error detection and correction on Intel SoCs sporting IBECC...

SECCOMP Filters Get A Very Nice Speed-Up With Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 05:51
The Linux 5.11 kernel cycle continues to prove to be very exciting. The latest are SECCOMP filters for this secure computing mode yielding a nice speed-up...

GTK4 To Bring Better & Faster macOS Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 02:40
On top of the many other improvements for the soon-to-be-released GTK4 toolkit, there is now better support for Apple's macOS...

There's Finally An Experimental Driver For Native Wayland Support Within Wine

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 01:20
Alexandros Frantzis has announced the creation of a Wayland driver for Wine. This driver allows Windows GDI/OpenGL applications to run on Wayland compositors without any use of X11/XWayland...

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