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      AMD EPYC 9996 Benchmarks Show Unparalleled Performance With 256 Zen 6C Cores

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:00

    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.
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      AMD EPYC 9686F Linux Benchmarks: 96 Zen 6 Cores At Up To 5.3GHz

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:00

    In addition to the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core CPU benchmarks out today in that dual socket configuration for a combined 512 cores / 1024 threads flagship Zen 6C server configuration, also tested recently at Phoronix was the EPYC 9686F part. The AMD EPYC 9686F is their new high-frequency Zen 6 part that features 96 cores / 192 threads at a boost clock of 5.3GHz! When the AMD EPYC 9686F they originally disclosed a 5.0GHz boost clock but with how well their production silicon panned out and/or marketing reasons, it's actually now confirmed to be 5.3GHz in production.
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      AMD Talks Up Their MEXT Software Amid RAM Crisis - Linux Support But Not Open-Source

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:00

    This summer AMD acquired the company MEXT for their AI-powered predictive memory technology to make flash memory such as NVMe SSDs behave more like DRAM. AMD MEXT with EPYC servers allows for flash memory as DRAM tiering and uses a predictive AI engine for handling the tiering in an effective way. There is a Linux driver but this is one of the few offerings in the AMD space that isn't open-source as part of their typical open ecosystem approach...
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      AMD Confirms ACE With 7th Gen EPYC "Florence" While 8th Gen EPYC Is "Ravenna"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:00

    During the AMD briefings for 6th Gen EPYC SP7 availability, they did already tease next-gen EPYC processors...
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      AMD EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 Announced

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:00

    In addition to today's announcement of AMD EPYC 9006 SP7 availability, complete with reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core flagship and EPYC 9686F 96-core 5.3GHz part, AMD also announced the EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 processors...
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      Blender 5.3 Released With NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, Vulkan Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:34

    Blender 5.3 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source 3D modeling software...
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      KORA Announced As Linux Desktop OS "For The Age of Intelligence"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:53

    Backed by Samsung, Square Enix, and others, KORA Systems announced KORA OS today as a Linux distribution built for the age of "intelligent PCs"...
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      Eight More Security Issues Made Public For The X.Org Server / XWayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:55

    With the assistance of AI/LLMs, eight more security vulnerabilities were made public today for the X.Org Server. These issues also end up affecting the XWayland code too...
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      Longtime Linux Developer Steps Down From Some Roles Due To Patch Flood Caused By AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:54

    Linux memory management expert Lorenzo Stoakes at Arm who has been contributing to the kernel since 2014 is stepping away from some reviewership roles within the Linux kernel due to all of the noise from the flood of kernel patches resulting fro AI/LLMs...