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More Benchmarks Of The Initial Performance Hit From CVE-2019-14615 On Intel Gen7 Graphics

Phoronix - Sat, 01/18/2020 - 08:25
On Wednesday I shined the light on the initial performance hit from Intel's CVE-2019-14615 graphics vulnerability particularly striking their "Gen7" graphics hard. That initial testing was done with Core i7 hardware while here are results looking at the equally disturbing performance hits from Core i3 and i5 affected processors too...

Nextcloud Hub Announced For Offering On-Premises Content Collaboration Platform

Phoronix - Sat, 01/18/2020 - 07:16
Nearly four years since forking from ownCloud, Nextcloud continues taking on the likes of Dropbox, Google Docs, and Microsoft 365 -- especially more so now with their introduction of Nextcloud Hub. Nextcloud Hub is a completely integrated on-premises content collaboration platform...

Wine 5.0-RC6 Released With Another 21 Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/18/2020 - 06:29
We'll likely see the Wine 5.0 stable release next week or the following week, but for now Wine 5.0-RC6 is available as the newest weekly release candidate...

Fedora CoreOS Now Deemed Production Ready For Containerized Workload Experience

Phoronix - Sat, 01/18/2020 - 01:56
Fedora CoreOS has graduated out of its preview state and is now considered ready for general use...

Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Ryzen 9 3950X vs. Core i9 9900KS In Nearly 150 Benchmarks

Phoronix - Sat, 01/18/2020 - 00:46
This week our AMD Ryzen 9 3950X review sample finally arrived and so we've begun putting it through the paces of many different benchmarks. The first of these Linux tests with the Ryzen 9 3950X is looking at the performance up against the Ryzen 9 3900X and Intel Core i9 9900KS in 149 different tests.

ASUS TUF Laptops With Ryzen Are Now Patched To Stop Overheating On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 01/17/2020 - 22:00
The AMD Ryzen Linux laptop experience continues improving albeit quite tardy on some elements of the support. In addition to the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver finally being released and current/voltage reporting for Zen CPUs on Linux, another step forward in Ryzen mobile support is a fix for ASUS TUF laptops with these processors...

AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/17/2020 - 20:29
After already several rounds of feature work queued in DRM-Next for Linux 5.6, AMD has submitted a final batch of feature work for this next kernel as it concerns their AMDGPU graphics driver...

Intel Gen7 Graphics Mitigation Will Try To Avoid Performance Loss In Final Version

Phoronix - Fri, 01/17/2020 - 20:03
Intel's open-source developers working on their security mitigation for the Gen7 graphics hardware have volleyed a new version of the patch series for that mitigation currently causing big hits to Ivybridge / Haswell performance...

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