Exclusive & Benchmarks: AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source
This allows unmodified CUDA apps to run on Radeon GPUs and in some workloads CUDA on Radeon is faster than native OpenCL or HIP/ROCm backends!
Crap! HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD
"The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements."
It's Been 9 Years Since
#Valve
Rolled Out The
#Steam
#Linux
Beta
-- Cheers to all the work Valve has carried out over the past 9 years for improving Linux gaming and the infrastructure around it from Mesa drivers to other desktop aspects.
This was a Friday night surprise:
@AMD
's Newest Open-Source Surprise: "Peano" - An LLVM Compiler For
@AMDRyzen
AI NPUs
An important milestone in enabling AMD's NPU/AI engine with open-source software on Linux.
Linus Torvalds Is Doing More ARM64 Linux Testing Now That He Has A More Powerful System
Linus doing more AArch64 kernel builds thanks to
@AmpereComputing
Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Better Wine Performance
Improvements fro m21% to as much as 678% for some Windows games on Linux... Of the games tested commonly in the 100~200% improvement range. We'll see where the work leads!
#Linux
6.5 Ready To Ship With Initial USB4 v2, More WiFi 7, AMD P-State EPP Default & More
-- Linux 6.5 is especially exciting for the many Intel & AMD changes
The
@Intel
Core Ultra 7 155H
#MeteorLake
vs.
@AMDRyzen
7 7840U On Ubuntu Linux In 300+ CPU Benchmarks
With 370 CPU tests, the
@AMD
Zen 4 SoC was faster than the new Meteor Lake 22-thread CPU on
#Linux
in 80% of the tests & 28% faster geo mean overall.
The
@FrameworkPuter
Framework 13
@AMDRyzen
Laptop Seeing Experimental Coreboot Port!
Will hopefully see binaries soon but it's important to note is experimental. An
@AMD
OpenSIL version may come in future too!
Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives
It's happening! The
@CodeWeavers
NTSYNC driver is in char-misc-next! Linux 6.10 poised to introduce this driver emulating NT sync prims for better gaming perf!
The
@AMD
@AMDRyzen
9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance
Excellent Linux performance & power efficiency! Nearly 400 benchmarks, very impressed with Zen 5 on the desktop at the upper-end of the stack.
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%
Google engineers improve the kernel's core network code that
@AMDServer
EPYC seeing 40% better network TCP perf for many concurrent connections! Wild!
Linus Torvalds Just Made A Big Optimization To Help Code Compilation Times On Big CPUs
(Yet more good
#opensource
#Linux
news for the the likes of the
@AMDRyzen
Threadripper 3990X!)
The Open-Source
@AMD
GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines
Nearly 16% of the Linux kernel codebase is the modern AMD Radeon graphics driver code.
Massive ~2.3k Patch Series Would Improve
#Linux
Build Times 50~80% & Fix "Dependency Hell"
Fast Kernel Headers: "so this is probably the largest single feature announcement in LKML's history. Not by choice! :-/"
The upcoming
@Ubuntu
24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The
@AMDRyzen
Framework 16
@FrameworkPuter
Laptop
Ubuntu 23.10 vs. 24.04 vs. Windows 11 tests on this Ryzen 7 7840HS laptop.
The
@FrameworkPuter
Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support & Performance, Excellent Customizability
Benchmarks of the new modular
@AMDRyzen
7 7840HS Framework laptop on
@Ubuntu
Linux!