AMD Says Its EPYC Chips Beat NVIDIA’s New Vera CPU 3.4x in a Modeled Rack
AMD's new EPYC white paper claims a 3.4x rack-throughput lead over Nvidia's unreleased Vera CPU, up from 2.37x three months ago, on a revised benchmark mix.
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Zen 6 Kernel Patches Put Numbers on a Third Core Type
AMD's kernel patches put the first numbers on Zen 6's new low-power core, Intel's own parts store names LGA1954 alongside Nova Lake-S, and G.Skill brings EXPO ULL to a mainstream AM5 memory kit.
GeForce On Streams Today With DLSS 4.5 Expected, and Zen 6 Reaches Linux Early
NVIDIA's Gamescom stream airs with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction widely expected, and AMD's Zen 6 overclocking plumbing reaches the Linux kernel months ahead of the silicon.
A Two-Instruction Gap in AMD’s Spectre v2 Defense, Now Closed
MIT researchers found a two-instruction timing gap that let interrupts defeat AMD's Safe RET mitigation on Zen 1 through Zen 4. The kernel fix was already merged before disclosure; separately, Linux 7.2-rc6 untangles a Zen 5/Zen 6 ID mixup.
AM5 Gets Its First Open-Source Firmware, and Zen 6 Starts Landing in Linux
One retail B850 board now boots on coreboot and openSIL, with a very short CPU list, while Zen 6's per-core performance floors are already merged in mainline Linux.