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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.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 11, 2024

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 · May 27, 2024

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 · May 14, 2024

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.

TechRadar · Mar 4, 2024

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 · Feb 23, 2024

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 · Feb 16, 2024

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 · Feb 14, 2024

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.

Tom’s Hardware · Feb 9, 2024

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 · Feb 7, 2024

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’

Tom’s Hardware · Jan 16, 2024