… The processors all freshly tested under Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and based on what I have available for benchmarking included: - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K - Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus w DDR5-7200 - Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus - Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus - Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus w DDR5-7200 - Inte… …
AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2 Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 11 May 2026 at 06:19 AM EDT. …
… While the cost may be hard to justify at $899 USD compared to the existing Ryzen 9000 series products or Intel's new Core Plus CPUs, particularly for developers, technical computing, etc the performance of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is quite interesting. …
… The CPUs re tested for today's comparison included: - Core Ultra 5 245K - Core Ultra 7 270K Plus - Core Ultra 7 270K Plus w DDR5-7200 - Core Ultra 9 285K - Ryzen 5 9600X - Ryzen 7 9700X - Ryzen 7 9800X3D - Ryzen 7 9850X3D - Ryzen 9 9900X - Ryzen 9 9950X - Ryzen 9 9950X3D Unfortunately I was never s… …
… The Intel IVPU accelerator driver for Core Ultra NPUs recently enacted a change to prevent single programs from exhausting all NPU resources . That change was picked up for Linux 7.1 and prevents a single non-root user/program from occupying all contexts and doorbells of the Intel NPU. …
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… In practice that means: - AMD Zen 4 and later client and server - Intel Sapphire Rapids and later server - Intel Rocket Lake client - Intel Nova Lake and later client The !PREFER YMM condition excludes the older AVX-512 implementations in Intel Skylake Server and Intel Ice Lake. …
… Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration AMD Opens Pre-Orders For The Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support AMD Support…
… Perhaps new AMD Ryzen AI 400 series offerings? Intel Panther Lake upgrades? NVIDIA GB10 Framework Desktop? Their current Ryzen AI 300 series laptops remain strong contenders to this day. …
… Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users Notice: Brief Downtime Expected Overnight Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February Linux Kernel AI Chatter, ReactOS Developments & AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Topped January Radeon Linux Driver Enhancem…