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Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Launching 3 September

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 01:47
With the AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" laptops now shipping this week, Intel has announced that their Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" processors as the successor to Meteor Lake will be formally launching on 3 September...

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 00:39
After seeing how the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Zen 5 Strix Point performance is under Linux against a range of other Intel/AMD laptops, the next obvious question is... how does this compare to Windows? In this article is an initial look at the Windows 11 versus Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux performance for the same AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 SoC within an ASUS Zenbook S16 and running the same benchmarks in looking at the out-of-the-box performance difference.

Mesa's Freedreno Gallium3D Driver Lands Initial Adreno 700 Series Support

Phoronix - Tue, 07/30/2024 - 22:36
Since last year there's been support available in the MSM DRM kernel driver for Qualcomm's Adreno 700 series graphics processors. There's also been some Adreno 700 series support in TURNIP as the Mesa Vulkan driver for these newer Adreno GPUs. Now finally the Freedreno Gallium3D driver has merged initial Adreno 700 series support for the Mesa 24.3 release...

Google's AutoFDO & Propeller For The Linux Kernel Helps With Up To 5~10% Faster Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 07/30/2024 - 20:25
Google engineer Rong Xu has proposed adding AutoFDO and Propeller support to the mainline Linux kernel for its Clang-based build as it can help the system performance improve in the up to 5~10% range...

AdaptiveCpp 24.06 Released As "The Fastest Heterogeneous C++ Compiler" - Beats CUDA

Phoronix - Tue, 07/30/2024 - 18:42
AdaptiveCpp as the open-source compiler formerly known as hypSYCL and Open SYCL is out with a new feature release for this C++ heterogeneous compiler supporting all major CPUs and GPUs...

Canonical Saw $251M In Revenue Last Year, Grew To More Than 1K Employees

Phoronix - Tue, 07/30/2024 - 18:25
Ubuntu maker Canonical (Canonical Group Limited) recently filed their financial statements with UK's Companies House that offers a fresh look at their financial performance...

DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay 1.6 Open-Source Renderer Released

Phoronix - Tue, 07/30/2024 - 18:07
Two years ago DreamWorks Animation made the exciting decision that they would open-source their MoonRay renderer that's been used in production for a variety of animated feature films. That initial open-source drop took place last year as OpenMoonRay and since then it has continued to be improved as an open-source project...

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