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Microsoft finally moves the WSL2 kernel onto a more modern LTS release, but you'll have to install it yourself right now

Microsoft is finally moving WSL2 away from its aging kernel with the first release of a new 6.6 LTS that can be built and installed right now ahead of it being rolled in by default.

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Intel prepping at least five new Battlemage GPU models — new PCI IDs added to Linux 6.11 kernel

Intel has listed five new Battlemage PCI IDs that will be integrated into the next update cycle for the Linux 6.11 kernel. The lack of many IDs hints that Intel's next-gen GPU launch could have far fewer SKUs than its outgoing Arc A-series lineup.

Tom’s Hardware

Single-line Intel Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%

Intel recently released a one-line code patch for its Meteor Lake CPUs, resulting in huge performance wins in Linux. That single line of code fine-tunes the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver.

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Intel throws in the towel on the processors that killed the first Aurora supercomputer — Knights Mill and Knights Landing support removed from LLVM

The last and final play for Intel Xeon Phi: Intel drops support for its MIC x86 processors.

Tom’s Hardware

Linux 6.9 arrives with Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake performance improvements

Linux 6.9 brings with it some performance tuning for Core Ultra Meteor Lake processors, improving performance by up to 10% in some applications.

Tom’s Hardware

If you think PCIe 5.0 runs hot, wait till you see PCIe 6.0's new thermal throttling technique

If you think PCIe 5.0 runs hot, wait till you see the thermal throttling for PCIe 6.0.

Tom’s Hardware

RDNA 3+ edges closer as AMD hints at refreshed GPU architecture in its Linux firmware

Don't expect major changes to the architecture, as that's been all kept for RDNA 4.

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Ubuntu outperforms Windows 11 on the Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS

Phoronix tested two versions of Ubuntu Linux against Windows 11 on the latest Ryzen-powered Framework 16 laptop and discovered that Ubuntu is better performing OS most of the time.

Tom’s Hardware

Arm China bolsters its AI accelerator with open source driver to compete against AMD, Intel, and Apple

Arm China continues to silently strengthen its product stack, now has an AI developers board and open-source drivers for its NPU design.

Tom’s Hardware

Nvidia Grace server CPU can compete with AMD's ludicrously fast Threadripper 7000 — expect an epic battle should team green decide to launch a desktop CPU

Phoronix pitted the GH200 processor against AMD's Threadripper 7000 powerhouse.

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Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head Linux benchmarks

A 39-test comparison of Nvidia's 72-core Grace CPU to AMD's Threadripper 7980X and 7995WX shows Grace on the heels of Threadripper 7000.

Tom’s Hardware

Surprise! Nvidia's ridiculously fast CPU is a surprising beast — tests show how the GH200 fared against AMD's fastest processor, the EPYC 9754, for the performance crown

Phoronix pitted the Nvidia GH200 processor against its main rivals for CPU performance.

TechRadar

You can run Nvidia CUDA applications natively on Radeon GPUs thanks to ZLUDA, the open-source project that AMD once funded

The chip giant ultimately withdrew its support but we still get to enjoy the fruits of that labour.

PC Gamer

Nvidia's Grace server CPU trades blows with AMD and Intel in detailed review -- outperforms Bergamo, Genoa, and Emerald Rapids in over half of the benchmarks

Nvidia's Grace CPU scored 13 wins against AMD's Genoa and Bergamo and 15 against Intel's Xeon Platinum 8592+ in a review with 23 benchmarks.

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Intel's Clear Linux distribution adds support for APX and AVX10, which aren't out yet

Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10), announced in July 2023 for future Intel CPUs, are now being implemented into Intel's own Linux distribution.

Tom’s Hardware

Linux dev delivers 6% file system performance increase – says ‘it was literally a five minute job’

Jens Axboe, the developer of IO_uring for Linux, delivers software patches that provide a 6% file system performance increase – says the coding ‘was literally a 5 min job’

TechRadar

Intel bets on a secret weapon to beat AMD in some AI workloads — AVX-512 instructions will help Xeon beat Epyc in specific scenarios but Intel will have to work much, much harder to worry AMD

Enabling AVX-512 more than triples performance on various AI-related workloads, according to benchmarking.

PC Gamer

Valve continues to improve the gaming performance of Linux open source drivers for AMD GPUs, as part of the Mesa project

The Steam Deck will obviously benefit from the work but so to can anyone using a Linux+Radeon combination.

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Intel Meteor Lake CPUs' Integrated Graphics are 33 Percent Faster Than Prior Gen, Linux Benchmarks Show

Intel Meteor Lake Arc Graphics is pit against its predecessors in a benchmarking run from Phoronix, showing the gen-over-gen improvement in both iGPU performance and iGPU power efficiency from Intel.

Tom’s Hardware

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and AMD Ryzen 7 7840U have an iGPU-bound benchmarking rematch in Linux

The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H gets benchmarked under Linux against the Ryzen 7 7840U and the Core i7 1280P, revealing significant improvements over past-generation iGPU architecture.

Tom’s Hardware

AMD's Ryzen mobile chips beat Intel's new Meteor Lake in Linux benchmarks — Ryzen 7 7840U and Intel Core Ultra 7 155H go head-to-head

The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H was tested against the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U by Phoronix in a gauntlet of over 300 CPU benchmarks. The Core 7 was tested with an Acer Swift Go 14, and the Ryzen 7 with a Framework laptop.

Tom’s Hardware

AMD Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 3+, and Zen 4 Mobile CPUs Compared in Linux

Phoronix put together a review of four generations of Ryzen mobile CPUs to see the architectural performance improvements AMD has made in a Linux environment.

Tom’s Hardware

RX 6800 XT is Faster Than RX 7800 XT in Linux Gaming

The Radeon RX 6800 XT reigns supreme in Phoronix's evaluation of the best graphics card for 1080p gaming in Linux.

PC Gamer

All recent AMD CPUs are affected by the 'Inception' vulnerability

But there's a sign gamers will emerge unscathed.

Tom’s Hardware

AMD's Inception Fix Causes Up to 54% Performance Drop

AMD's Inception mitigations can cause some serious performance penalties, and the proof can be seen in this wide range of pre-and post-patch benchmark results.

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