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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Performance With ECC DDR5 Memory

Phoronix - Fri, 10/06/2023 - 00:13
For those curious about the performance implications of using DDR5 ECC memory with AMD Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" processors, I ran some benchmarks with ECC memory with the Error Correction Code functionality enabled and then disabled for evaluating the impact.

WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 20:55
WayVNC 0.7 was released today as the newest feature update to this VNC server for use with wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC will dynamically attach to running Wayland sessions and allow for convenient VNC server support...

Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC Support Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 19:09
The Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC that can power fully-autonomous (Level 5) driving for vehicles and provide other assisted-driving technologies for a variety of automobiles could soon see mainline support in the Linux kernel...

Intel Vulkan Driver Implements A Transfer Queue For DG2/Alchemist GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 18:52
In addition to Vulkan sparse support that works with the existing i915 kernel driver, another exciting open-source Intel Vulkan driver development this week is landing a transfer queue implementation for DG2/Alchemist GPUs. This in turn can help with hybrid graphics systems and other situations...

New Patches Speed-Up Linux's Accounted Kernel Memory Allocations By ~30%

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 18:44
A set of patches posted last week can improve the Linux kernel's performance of accounted kernel memory allocations by around 30%...

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