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StarFive VisionFive 2 Quad-Core RISC-V Performance Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 23:41
SiFive's HiFive Unmatched development board was interesting when it began shipping in 2021 with 16GB of RAM and four U74-MC RISC-V cores along with one S7 core. But pricing was rather steep at $665 USD. Fast forward two years, the StarFive VisionFive 2 has begun to enjoy wide availability and for $100+ this RISC-V development board features a quad-core RISC-V processor via the StarFive JH7110 SoC with integrated GPU, up to 8GB of RAM, HDMI 2.0 output, dual Gigabit Ethernet, dual USB 3.0 ports, and more for around $100 USD. Here are some benchmarks of this most interesting RISC-V single board computer in the ~$100 space to be released yet.

CrossOver 23 Enables EA App On Linux, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 22:54
While many Linux gamers are all-set these days by making use of Steam and leveraging Valve's Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux, for those running macOS or also wishing to enjoy more office/application-oriented Windows software on Linux support, CodeWeavers is out today with CrossOver 23 as the newest release of their commercial Wine-based software...

GCC Compiler Adds Software Workaround To Avoid Intel Downfall Performance Hit

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 21:48
With the Intel Downfall vulnerability made public last week (also known as GDS - "Gather Data Sampling") there can be a sizable hit to AVX workloads making use of the GATHER instructions. For helping to lower the impact of Downfall/GDS on mitigated systems, Intel has made a change to the GNU Compiler Collection to disable GATHER generation in vectorization for Intel CPU families affected by this vulnerability...

Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS - Allowing More Linux Apps To Run On Chromebooks

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 20:00
Distrobox as the open-source project allowing easy access to running other distributions/apps via Podman and Docker has merged support for ChromeOS...

LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 18:26
In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch "Loong64" as a new Debian Port...

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