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      AMD EPYC 9006 Venice vs. NVIDIA Vera Benchmarks For HPC Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:44

    Yesterday in the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 launch testing were reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core processor as well as the EPYC 9686F 96-core high frequency part. There were hundreds of benchmarks looking at the gen-on-gen performance from EPYC Turin to EPYC Venice as well as against the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids competition. For those wondering about how AMD EPYC Venice is competing with NVIDIA's Vera CPU, this article provides a look at those results for a range of HPC workloads.
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      Initial AMD RDNA5/GFX13 Code Sent Out For Mesa RADV & RadeonSI Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:18

    After AMD posted GFX13 patches for the AMDGPU Linux driver earlier in the week, today they opened the Mesa merge request for introducing the very primitive GFX13 support for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI Gallium3D/OpenGL drivers...
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      FreeBSD Working To Establish An AI Policy After Polling Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:30

    The FreeBSD Project published its Q3'2026 status report on Tuesday that outlines a number of development initiatives to ongoing work around an AI policy for this BSD operating system...
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      ATI/AMD R300 To R500 GPUs See New 2026 OpenGL Linux Driver Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:01

    Over 24 years old, the ATI (AMD) Radeon R300 graphics processors are still seeing improvements in the open-source Linux driver space. Merged to Mesa 27.0-devel this week were a number of shader compiler optimizations for the R300g driver that benefits not only the original R300 series graphics cards but also the R400 and R500 (Radeon X1000 series) too...
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      AMD AOCC 6.0 Brings Zen 6 Optimizations, New "aof" Fortran Compiler, aoc / aoc++ Branding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:54

    With yesterday's launch availability of the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 processors headlined by the incredibly fast EPYC 9996 and EPYC 9686F processors, AMD also launched AOCC 6.0 as the newest version of their in-house LLVM/Clang-based compiler stack...
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      Intel Releases New CPU Microcode To Fix A Variety Of Functional Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:41

    Intel on Tuesday released the microcode-20261110 package that ships updated CPU microcode binaries for recent Intel Core (Ultra) and Xeon processors. The updated CPU microcode is for Core Gen 13 "Raptor Lake" and newer while on the Xeon server side is for Sapphire Rapids and newer. This is also the first time Clearwater Forest has seen microcode updates...
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      Haiku OS Now Has A UFS Driver, Two & Three Finger Tap Gestures

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has seen new work on drivers and other improvements during the course of October...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Begins Rolling Out upki Support For Certificate Revocation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:43

    With Ubuntu 26.10 that shipped in October there is a little talked about feature with upki revocation support beginning to roll out. Due to the late change, upki for certificate revocation was only enabled for Ubuntu 26.10's curl package but with more plans ahead...
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      AMD EPYC 9996 Benchmarks Show Unparalleled Performance With 256 Zen 6C Cores

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Back in July AMD announced the EPYC 9006 "Venice" series at their Advancing AI event. Today they are announcing EPYC 9006 series Socket SP7 processor availability and with systems beginning to ship today from their OEM/ODM partners. With that we are also now allowed to begin sharing AMD EPYC 9006 performance benchmark figures. Back in July I expected EPYC 9006 to be a "grand slam" for performance... After hands-on with the 6th Gen EPYC processors, it's a grand slam alright -- out of this world.