Tag: amd
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Best Laptops for Linux (ZDNet)
The best Linux laptops are user-friendly with high-end components and great battery life. We tested models from Lenovo, Dell, and more to find the top options. Years ago, we were lucky to have one or two Linux laptop options. Now, you’d be surprised at how many laptops are sold with Linux installed, making it a…
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Single-line Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%
Intel recently released a one-line code patch for its Meteor Lake CPUs, resulting in huge performance wins in Linux. That single line of code fine-tunes the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. In benchmark tests, the seemingly minor change resulted in Linux performance increases as high as 72% on Intel’s Core Ultra PC systems. The patch,…
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Linux 6.10-rc2 Will Fix Booting Intel Quark CPUs
Ahead of today’s Linux 6.10-rc2 kerne weekly test release a few “x86/urgent” patches were submitted for addressing some fallout on Intel and AMD processors. One of the x86 urgent fixes this week is to restore support for booting Linux on the Intel Quark SoCs… The 32-bit SoCs that held the distinction of being even slower…
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NVIDIA vs. AMD CPU Workstations
NVIDIA GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstations, to be exact. Earlier this month I posted some initial CPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper up against AMD EPYC Zen 4 and Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids processors. That was a very interesting battle and showed the interesting capabilities of the…
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New AMD & Intel Laptop/Platform Support In Linux 6.8
Merged last week for the Linux 6.8 kernel were the platform driver x86 updates, which include a lot of new AMD Ryzen and Intel Core platform support and new laptop functionality. The Linux platform-drivers-x86 space continues to be quite busy with the multitude of interesting AMD/Intel laptops coming out these days and rather interesting designs.…
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Linux on Meteor Lake Runs 33% Faster
Among the improvements made during Intel’s Meteor Lake launch was an incredible jump in power and efficiency for their integrated graphics. The Arc graphics inside the latest Intel CPU perform better than those competing Radeon 780M iGPUs of AMD. This is perhaps first time that this memory comes to an all-time high with integrated graphics…
