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Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU CPU scaling with DLSS Ryzen to the top: How AMD innovated in the gaming CPU market How ARM is working its way into PCs AMD CES 2026 gaming trends press Q&A roundtable transcript The very first set of Nvidia Vera CPU benchmarks have just been released by Phoronix , wit… …
… AMD used the following benchmarks, as well: Server-side Java based on SPECjbb 2015 WRK Tool for load on an NGINX web server Redis-benchmark for in-memory workloads Memory caching with Memcached Database performance with TPROC-C on MySQL These "results" are mostly a way for AMD to fire back at Nvidi… …
… Phoronix reports that GitHub Copilot was used to clean up code pertaining to vintage AMD R6000 Linux graphics drivers, helping keep the driver relevant for people still using these late 2000s-era GPUs. …
… The new patch clearly distinguishes between high-performance cores, efficiency cores, and low-power cores, so it is safe to say that AMD's upcoming CPU platforms will use three types of cores, with the low-power one serving light workloads, reports Phoronix . …
… But AMD had some things to say about the Phoronix test, firing back with its own metrics of a 3.3x performance gain over Vera for the projected output of a 100 kW rack of its hardware. …
… Intel i486, AMD Elan SoCs, and AMD Geode CPUs also put out to pasture We reported a month ago that Linux devs had started to remove support for the 37-year-old Intel i486 CPU in patches destined for the Linux 7.1 kernel. …
… Phoronix's first public Vera benchmarks in May measured it roughly 10% ahead of AMD's 64-core EPYC 9575F and about 55% ahead of Intel's 128-core Xeon 6980P across selected Linux workloads. …
… Nvidia isn’t gunning to steal existing market share from AMD and Intel as much as it’s trying to grab market share in an expanding market before AMD and Intel can. …