Tag: amd
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Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux vs. AMD vs. IntelAuthor: Written by Michael Larabel in Processors June 2024 marked the launch of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite to much initial fanfare for finally some compelling ARM laptop designs. While initially — and still to this day with the likes of the TUXEDO X Elite laptop not…
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Linux 6.13 launches this January 19
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 16 January 2025The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features! With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here’s a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first…
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AMD Ryzen beats Intel Lunar Lake
AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators! Written by Michael Larabel Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake’s CPU performance. The Xe2 graphics performance under Linux was disappointingly slow…
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Switching to Linux from Windows 11 on Ryzen 9000
When AMD announced its Ryzen 9000 series desktop processor lineup at Computex earlier this year, the company touted big performance gains thanks to a massive 16% IPC (instructions per clock/cycle) boost. While the company’s claims probably have not been untrue, the overall performance of a processor is the byproduct of not just IPC but the…
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AMD GFX12 Driver Support Being Enabled By Default
It looks like the AMD RDNA4 “GFX12” graphics driver support is in good shape: AMD is now enabling the driver support for the next-generation graphics “out of the box” with the latest pending patches. Queued today into the DRM branch is a patch that drops the experimental hardware support check for GFX12. The commit simply…
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Various BSDs vs Linux Compared (on AMD)
This is an article that pits FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks. After last week looking at how FreeBSD 14.1 has improved performance over FreeBSD 14.0, here is an expanded cross-OS comparison now looking at how the new FreeBSD 14.1 stable release compares to the recently released NetBSD 10.0, the…
