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AMD Linux Driver Preparing For A Navi "Blockchain" Graphics Card

Phoronix - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 02:46
While all eyes are on the AMD Radeon RX 6000 "Big Navi" graphics cards set to be announced next week, it also looks like AMD is preparing for a Navi 1x "Blockchain" graphics card offering given the latest work in their open-source Linux driver...

Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver For Intel CPU Undervolting

Phoronix - Thu, 10/22/2020 - 02:00
While the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) on Windows allows for undervolting laptop processors, currently on Linux there isn't any Intel-endorsed way for undervolting your CPU should you be interested in better thermal/power efficiency and other factors. But a hypothetical Linux kernel driver could be coming for filling such void...

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Performance With Intel Tiger Lake, AMD Renoir

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 22:16
Stemming from our initial Intel Core i7 1165G7 "Tiger Lake" benchmarks on the Dell XPS 13 9310 last week and then also discovering better single-threaded performance on Ubuntu 20.10, one of the pressing questions was whether this is expected performance on Linux or if it's coming up short of Microsoft Windows for this first tier-one notebook to market with Intel Tiger Lake. So following those earlier tests I proceeded to do a Windows 10 Pro with all available updates comparison on Ubuntu 20.10 with the i7-1165G7. For added context, the same software stack and tests were repeated on an AMD Ryzen "Renoir" notebook.

Intel Begins Adding Alder Lake Graphics Support To Their Linux Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 22:09
Intel has begun adding support for Alderlake-S to their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver...

Facebook Is Looking To Upstream Their BOLT Binary Performance Optimizer Into LLVM

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 19:00
Facebook's BOLT is a multi-year project focused on speeding up the performance of binaries. This open-source project initially focused on being able to better optimize Linux x86_64/ARM64 ELF binaries as a post-link optimizer. BOLT has been seeing much success with even Google using it now for better performance and now there is work to upstream it as part of the LLVM project...

TrueNAS 12 Released As The Marriage Of FreeNAS + TrueNAS

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 18:37
OpenBSD 6.8, NetBSD 9.1, and now TrueNAS 12.0 is out... It seems to be BSD release week!..

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