Benchmarks

AMD EPYC 4545P Achieves 2.24x The Performance At Half The Power Of The First EPYC CPU
Recently we looked at the performance of the AMD EPYC 4545P that is a 16 core 65 Watt processor in the EPYC 4005 "Grado" series. This is quite an interesting processor for those after low-power servers, edge AI deployments, and other purposes with no s...
2025-08-11 09:10
Linux Cache-Aware Scheduling / Load Balancing Updated With New Tuning Knob
Intel engineer Chen Yu posted a fresh round of Linux kernel patches working on cache-aware scheduling/load-balancing for this functionality being sought after both by Intel and AMD. The new patches should address some performance regressions observed i...
2025-08-11 08:46
NFS Client & Server Feature Updates For Linux 6.17
For those making use of the Network File System (NFS), the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel is bringing some nice improvements both for the NFS server and client code...
2025-08-11 08:21
Linux ACPI Idle Driver Being Improved For Hybrid CPUs
For hybrid CPU core designs from recent Intel Core (Ultra) processors to ARM big.LIITTLE, a patch series was posted today in seeking to enhance the generic ACPI processor idle driver around processors with multiple types of CPU cores...
2025-08-11 06:41
Blender 5.0 Will Likely Default To Using OpenGL Rather Than Vulkan
While there was previously talk of Blender 5.0 likely defaulting to using the Vulkan API for rendering but keeping the OpenGL driver around, those plans look like they may be changing. OpenGL-by-default looks to now be on the table for Blender 5.0 due ...
2025-08-11 06:30
Logitech G13 Linux Support Patch Proposed 16 Years After Hardware Release
With the increased popularity of Linux gaming these days, a patch has been proposed to improve the hardware support for the Logitech G13 gameboard under Linux. The only problem is the hardware is now 16 years old and since been discontinued...
2025-08-11 06:20
Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel
Back in May the Ubuntu engineers at Canonical announced plans to ship Ubuntu 25.10 with Linux 6.17 given their recent commitment to always shipping with the latest upstream Linux kernel version. They still are committing to it even if it means the kern...
2025-08-11 06:10
FFmpeg Develops Vulkan Hardware Acceleration For Apple ProRes RAW Codec
The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release continues to increase in excitement with this weekend Vulkan hardware acceleration for Apple's ProRes RAW codec being merged...
2025-08-10 20:53
Linux 6.17-rc1 Released With Many New Features But No Bcachefs Changes
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17-rc1 kernel a few hours ahead of his typical release regiment due to currently being in Europe. That marks the end of the Linux 6.17 merge window with many exciting changes merged this cycle. This is notable w...
2025-08-10 12:55
Debian 14 Eyes LoongArch CPU Support
Debian 13.0 released yesterday while already Debian developers are beginning to think about Debian 14 as the next major release due out in 2027. Debian 14 is codenamed Forky and among the changes expected is LoongArch64 "Loong64" CPU port support being...
2025-08-10 08:55
GNOME Shell 49 Beta Finally Brings Media Controls To The Lock Screen
In preparing for the GNOME 49 beta release, GNOME Shell this weekend released 49.beta.1 with a few changes worth highlighting...
2025-08-10 06:32
Turbostat Now Displays CPU L3 Cache Topology Information
Ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc1 release due out in the coming hours, the Turbostat updates for that tool living within the kernel source tree were merged...
2025-08-10 06:18
Btrfs Has Saved Meta "Billions Of Dollars" In Infrastructure Costs
Amid the ongoing discussion over what will happen too Bcachefs in the mainline Linux kernel, an interesting anecdote around Btrfs was mentioned...
2025-08-09 17:47
Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Now Available - Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS
Debian 13.0 "Trixie" is now officially out as the newest two-year stable release to Debian GNU/Linux...
2025-08-09 14:14
Linux 6.17 EFI Stub Will Try To Maintain a Cleaner Boot Experience
The EFI code updates were merged today for the nearly-over Linux 6.17 kernel with two changes worth mentioning...
2025-08-09 12:35
Vulkan 1.4.325 Released With Untyped Pointers Extension
Vulkan 1.4.325 was released on Friday with one new extension in tow: VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers for untyped pointers...
2025-08-09 09:00
Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage"
Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RI...
2025-08-09 06:50
GNU/Hurd Now An Official Platform For SDL Cross-Platform Gaming Library
GNU/Hurd has made it as an official platform target within SDL that is the open-source library widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions across operating systems...
2025-08-09 06:28
GNOME Mutter On Wayland Adds ICC Profile Support, Backlight Improvements
There were a lot of interesting changes that landed in GNOME's Mutter compositor codebase to end out the weekend and ahead of next month's big GNOME 49 release...
2025-08-09 06:19
KDE Plasma 6.5 Continues Seeing More Features Added & Polishing
Like clockwork KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma changes for the week. There continues to be a lot of feature work and polishing that is building up for the Plasma 6.5 desktop release...
2025-08-09 06:04