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AMD EPYC 9575F CPUs For GPU/AI Servers Show Leading Performance In Benchmarks

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 12:30

Since the launch of the AMD EPYC 9005 series nearly one year ago, I have performed hundreds of different benchmarks on these EPYC "Turin" processors across a wide range of workloads/disciplines to really terrific performance, power efficiency, and value. AMD EPYC 9005 performs exceptionally well compared to the competition from Intel and ARM CPU vendors. One area though I hadn't explored to this point was how well the AMD EPYC 9005 series performs for serving as the host CPU for GPU/AI servers. That changed as I recently wrapped up some benchmarks exploring that area using the AMD EPYC 9575F and it managed to accelerate past the available competition in proving capable of being the superior host processor for AI servers.

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PipeWire 1.4.8 Improves Compatibility With Apple Home Pod Mini Speakers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 10:45

PipeWire 1.4.8 is out today as the newest step forward for this increasingly critical Linux desktop component for managing audio and video streams...

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GCC Rust Compiler Continues Quest To Compile The Linux Kernel Crate

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 10:11

The GCC Rust compiler "gccrs" compiler developers have been keeping at it toward their goal of being able to compile the Linux kernel's Rust kernel crate and as part of that the Rust core library...

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Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 10:00

Within the nightly builds of the Firefox web browser is finally the ability to support playback of Matroska "MKV" content...

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Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 09:44

Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle...

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Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 21:55

Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed support for VDPAU acceleration...

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Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 18:54

Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

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openSUSE Disabling Bcachefs Support For Its Linux 6.17+ Kernel Builds

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 15:33

Linus Torvalds recently marked Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and isn't merging any new Bcachefs code for the time being but for now at least is keeping the existing Bcachefs code in-tree for anyone that has been relying on this experimental CoW file-system from prior kernel versions. OpenSUSE announced today though they are resorting to disabling the kernel driver in their Linux 6.17+ builds...

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Intel Fixes Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Performance Issues For Linux Ahead Of Launch

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 14:43

A set of 14 patches were merged today to the Mesa 3D graphics driver codebase for fixing some wide-reaching performance issues that would have negatively affected the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. The patches have been merged so will be very important that anyone buying an upcoming Intel Panther Lake laptop move to using an up-to-date Mesa to avoid these performance problems...