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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 18:00
We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful integrated Radeon 8060S graphics, 128GB of system memory, a nice 14-inch 2.8K display, and other top-end features to provide a dominating laptop powerhouse. In today's article are the very initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC under Linux with a focus on the CPU capabilities: a separate article also out today is looking at the AMD Radeon 8060S graphics on Linux.

AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 18:00
As shown in today's article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that's only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally interesting topic for Linux users considering a Strix Halo laptop or desktop, this article is centered around the integrated Radeon 8060S graphics support and performance under Linux.

Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:00
At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kernel. An updated version of these Nouveau driver patches for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs were posted overnight...

Support For New RISC-V SiFive Vendor Extensions On The Way For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 14:00
Queued within the development tree for the RISC-V processor code for the Linux kernel is supporting several new vendor-specific ISA extensions for SiFive RISC-V CPU cores...

10 Advanced Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Used (Part 3)

Tecmint - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 13:00
The post 10 Advanced Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Used (Part 3) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Continuing our exploration of lesser-known Linux commands, let’s dive into some more hidden gems that can help you manage your

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Terminal Showdown: Bash vs Zsh vs Fish for Power Users

Tecmint - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
The post Terminal Showdown: Bash vs Zsh vs Fish for Power Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The command-line shell is an essential tool for interacting with the operating system, allowing users to execute commands, automate tasks,

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Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Working Toward HDR Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software...

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