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Intel Announces New Xeon 6 CPU Models With SST-TF & Priority Core Turbo "PCT"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 May

Adding on to the Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" CPU family are today three new models focused on delivering enhanced GPU-accelerated AI performance...

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Maximizing The Performance & Power Efficiency Of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Platform Profiles

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 May

Last week I began posting Linux benchmarks of the flagship "Strix Halo" SoC, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with powerful Radeon 8060S graphics using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop. Both the CPU and GPU results for the data published thus far have been mighty impressive and done at the Ubuntu Linux defaults... But the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 within the ZBook Ultra G1a can be pushed even further by leveraging the ACPI Platform Profiles capabilities. In this article is showing how much further performance -- and the power costs -- can be achieved out of this AMD Strix Halo SoC when leveraging the HP Power Profiles as well as the power efficiency for those wanting to run the SoC instead in the "power saver" / "low power" configuration.

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PoCL 7.0 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On x86_64 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 May

PoCL 7.0 is out today as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that originally was started for supporting CPU-based OpenCL execution but with time and in leveraging LLVM back-ends has added support for OpenCL atop AMDKFD / NVIDIA PTX / Intel Level Zero and other possible back-ends...

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FFmpeg FFV1 Vulkan Encoder Lands +35% Improvement For AMD, +50% For NVIDIA

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 May

FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format. Merged this week to FFmpeg Git were more enhancements to their Vulkan-based FFV1 encoder and yielding big performance improvements for both AMD and NVIDIA graphics processors...

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AMD Preparing For Some Nice GPU Reset Improvements Under Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 May

Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards...

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MSI Linux Driver Aims For Parity To Windows App For The Claw Gaming Handhelds

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 May

A recently posted patch series for the MSI WMI platform driver is aiming this open-source driver to reach parity with MSI's official Windows application/driver for the MSI Claw gaming handheld systems...

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Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing For KVM Looked At For Linux 6.17

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 May

A patch series is baking for likely upstreaming in the Linux v6.17 kernel cycle later in the year to optimize AMD CPU cache flushing when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) with KVM...

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CentOS Now Providing Initial RISC-V Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 May

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support...

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AMD Releases ROCm 6.4.1 With RDNA4 GPU Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 May

Well, this is a pleasant surprise... Less than 24 hours after the AMD Computex 2025 keynote where better/more-timely ROCm support for client GPUs was brought up, AMD ROCm 6.4.1 is now officially released. With ROCm 6.4.1 there is formal support for RDNA4 GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9000 series consumer graphics cards...