Intel Continues To Show AMD The Importance Of Software Optimizations: 16% More Ryzen 9 9950X Performance As part of my ongoing AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Linux testing, last week I provided a look at the AVX-512 benefits to Zen 5 and also the Windows vs. Linux performance for the Ryzen 9 9950X. For sharing today is a look at multiple Linux distributions up and running on the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) desktop. Among the distributions in the mix a… https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-os-amd-ryzen9-9950x

Arch Linux Based CachyOS Switches To Open NVIDIA Kernel Modules, COSMIC Desktop Option Arch Linux powered CachyOS that is known for its performance optimizations and other enhancements is out with its "August 2024" rolling release update... https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-August-2024

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18 Lab Wayland Compositor "labwc" v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the wlroots 0.18 Wayland library... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Labwc-Lab-Wayland-Compositor-08

GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support Following the recent work to Mutter and GNOME Shell that was merged for allowing to build with X11 support disabled, the GDM display manager and GNOME-Session code have also seen the ability added to compile without X11 support... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Session-GDM-Without-X11

KDE Implements More Wayland Bits, Lowers Bug Count To Match Plasma 5 Stability KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Lowers-Bug-Count

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon. The newest addition now found in the code for Mesa 24.3 is enabling 12-bit AV1 content accelerated decoding... https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-AV1-12-bit-Decode

Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use Red Hat engineers have been developing Ramalama as a new open-source project that hopes to "make AI boring" by this inferencing tool striving for simplicity so users can quickly and easily deploy AI workloads without much fuss... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Ramalama

Quantifying The AVX-512 Performance Impact With AMD Zen 5 - Ryzen 9 9950X Benchmarks With the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux review out of the way yesterday, today's benchmarking of the Ryzen 9000 series is looking closely at the AVX-512 performance impact. With the Ryzen 9000 series the Zen 5 cores have a full 512-bit data-path compared to the "double pumped" 256-bit data path found in the Zen 4 processors as well as the Strix … https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen5-avx-512-9950x

Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache Mesa 24.2 is out today as stable for this quarterly feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and other platforms... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.2-Released

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads. Today the review embargo lifts on the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X and as expected given the prior 6-core/8-core tests: these new chips are wild!… https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x-9900x