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Google Cloud C3D Shows Great Performance With AMD EPYC Genoa

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 23:32
Back in August Google Cloud announced the C3D instances powered by AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors while only last week was C3D promoted to general availability. Curious about the performance of C3D after being impressed by AMD EPYC Genoa bare-metal server performance at Phoronix as well as what I've seen with Genoa in the cloud at Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2 / AWS, here are some benchmarks of the new C3D up against other GCE instances.

9-Way AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 20:32
For those currently weighing between the (currently) nine different AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors for Linux use, here are fresh benchmarks of the Zen 4 desktop CPU line-up while testing with Ubuntu 23.10 and the Linux 6.5 kernel...

OpenSSL 3.2 Reaches Beta With Client-Side QUIC, Zstd & Brotli Certificate Compression

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 20:11
OpenSSL 3.2 is now available in beta form as the newest forthcoming feature update to this widely-used cryptographic library...

RADV Hooks Up Image Compression Control To Workaround Game Bugs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 18:43
Samuel Pitoiset on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has wired up VK_EXT_image_compression_control support to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) in order to workaround same game bugs being encountered with Steam Play / VKD3D-Proton...

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q3 Released For Latest VA-API & QSV Code

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 18:22
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is where the company continues to stage their latest FFmpeg multimedia library patches prior to upstreaming. FFmpeg Cartwheel ends up containing all the latest and greatest code for leveraging VA-API and Quick Sync Video (QSV) from Intel integrated graphics through their latest DG2/Alchemist class discrete graphics...

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