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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 23:00
Last week AMD began shipping the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D Zen 5 3D V-Cache desktop processors. We delivered Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks and review for launch day but AMD sadly didn't seed any review samples of the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D processor. Being curious about its performance for Linux developers, enthusiasts, and technical computing workloads, I bought the $600 USD processor on launch day for delivering some Linux benchmarks. Here is a look at the Ryzen 9 9900X3D against the rest of the Ryzen 9000 series stack, the prior Ryzen 7000 series parts, and the Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake competition under Ubuntu.

Intel XeSS SDK 2.0.1 Published With New XeSS 2 Features, Still Closed-Source

Phoronix - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 21:57
The Intel XeSS SDK 2.0.1 was published today to GitHub as their first XeSS 2.0 release being available there and their first released version since the XeSS SDK 1.3.1 update from last July. While on GitHub, the XeSS SDK remains closed-source and Windows-focused...

Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available For Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming Soon

Phoronix - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 20:49
Raspberry Pi last year announced the RP2350 second-generation micro-controller that debuted within their $5 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 single board computer. Today they announced the RP2350 micro-controller is now available to purchase for your own micro-controller needs...

FFmpeg Lands Vulkan Improvements With Initial FFV1 Vulkan Decoder

Phoronix - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 20:00
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan Video improvements today into FFmpeg Git. In addition, there is now an FFV1 Vulkan-based decoder...

FreeDesktop.org GitLab Begins Its Week Long Cloud/Server Migration

Phoronix - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 18:49
It's going to be a light week for development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, various other X.Org related components, and the dozens of other open-source projects that rely on the FreeDesktop.org GitLab for facilitating merge requests, CI testing, and related infrastructure. The FreeDesktop.org server/cloud migration has begun and may last until next weekend...

Ubuntu 25.04 To Enable NVIDIA Dynamic Boost By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 18:37
The upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 Linux OS release will be enabling NVIDIA Dynamic Boost support by default when using their packaged driver support on capable laptops...

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