… With comparing Linux 7.1 stable to Linux 7.2 Git as of 21 June, it was a pleasant surprise seeing some unexpected improvements when testing the localhost performance of this EPYC Sorano server using xfr, the modern Rust-based alternative to iperf3: The TCP performance was improved very nicely. …
… Linux 7.2 is all the more important with being the default kernel for the likes of Ubuntu 26.10. My latest Linux 7.2 tests to share are from benchmarking Linux 7.1 stable against a recent Linux 7.2 Git snapshot with the same Kconfig on an AMD EPYC 9455P 48-core server. …
The Linux specialists over at Phoronix have conducted the first tests of Nvidia's Vera CPU, comparing it to Intel's Xeon CPUs and AMD's Epyc chips. Early performance results suggest it's plenty powerful, although power draw was high. …
… AMD ROCm 7.13 Released With Instinct MI350P Support, More Ryzen AI APUs Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1 AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2 OpenAI's C…
… Testing of the AMD EPYC 8635P occurred on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with the Linux 7.0 kernel. Given the AMD Zen 5 support being quite mature already, there were no surprises or issues encountered in running AMD EPYC 8005 series on modern Linux distributions. …
… So far Linux 7.1 appears to be looking good in the performance department with seeing a number of performance improvements in different areas but also a few possible regressions. Today are the results of my first benchmarking of the Linux 7.1 Git state as of Wednesday compared to Linux 7.0 stable. …
… Given EPYC 9005 Turin's performance advantage overall, pair that with around 20% more performance per core for a total knockout. Even for workloads like Nginx HTTPS web serving, AMD demonstrated 1.2x gen-on-gen performance. …
… Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1 AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2 OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux AMD's L…
… Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1 AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2 OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux AMD's L…