GCC Git Enables Additional Tuning For AMD Zen 6
In addition to Intel adjusting their Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids targets in GCC this week to deal with APX realities, AMD this week also adjusted some tuning bits for their Zen…
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Ubuntu 26.04 Provides More Performance For AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo"
…Some of the kernel improvements over the past year have targeted recent AMD platforms while in other cases there have been general performance optimizations to lift all (or most) processors. The same…
Hygon C86-4G CPU Support Added To The GCC 17 Compiler
…Hygon's C86-4G processor has been known since at least last year for offering 16 cores / 32 threads and delivering performance comparable to Intel Raptor Lake CPUs while supporting DDR5 and…
Intel Making More GPU Driver Improvements For Crescent Island With Linux 7.2
…1 Comment Intel's upcoming Crescent Island product as a reminder is a new inference-optimized Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM and targeting enterprise AI workloads. Intel's open-source…
Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m
…9 Comments The open-source Linux graphics driver work continues around AMD's GFX11.7 GPU target for some yet-to-be-launched APUs/SoCs and to be branded as "RDNA 4m…
Support For AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" Pending For RADV & RadeonSI Drivers
…9 Comments Back in February we were the first to report on a new AMD "RDNA 4m" target appearing in the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler . While part of the "RDNA 4" family…
Linux Patches Posted To Fix ~2x Performance Drop For CPU Workloads On NVIDIA Vera Rubin
Linux Patches Posted To Fix ~2x Performance Drop For CPU Workloads On NVIDIA Vera Rubin Written by Michael Larabel in NVIDIA on 27 March 2026 at 06:06 AM EDT. 5 Comments…
Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance
Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 5 May 2026 at 08:35 PM EDT. 3…
KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
…Root Privilege On All Distributions Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance
…On DX11 there are a bunch of performance of regression. We think this is due to the fact that to avoid trashing the RCC, we need to remove all but render targets…