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OpenBenchmarking Articles & Reviews

Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 Released With Revamped OpenBenchmarking.org For Open-Source, Automated Benchmarking   Software   2020-10-13
A Deep Dive Into The AMD/Intel CPU + NVIDIA GPU Performance With Blender 2.90   Software   2020-09-03
The New OpenBenchmarking.org Now In Alpha For Better Hardware & Benchmark Discovery   Software   2020-08-19
AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon Cascadelake With Facebook's RocksDB Database   Processors   2019-10-17
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 Released With New Result Viewer, Offline/Enterprise Benchmarking Enhancements   Software   2019-09-17
Intel Iris Pro OpenGL vs. Vulkan Benchmarks With Linux 4.9, Mesa 13.1-dev   Display Drivers   2016-12-06
A One Year Redux On The Basement Computer Room For Benchmarking 50+ Systems Daily   Computers   2016-04-05
Phoronix Test Suite 6.2 Released, The New OpenBenchmarking.org Empowers Greater Benchmark Collaboration   Software   2016-02-16
10-Way NVIDIA GeForce GTX OpenCL & CUDA Performance Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   2015-11-11
A Six Month Redux After Building A 60+ System Basement Server/Computer Room   Computers   2015-10-06
Phoronix Test Suite 5.2 Release Marks Six Years Of Open-Source Benchmarking   Software   2014-06-05
SilverStone PS08: A Decent, Ultra Low-Cost Micro-ATX Case   Enclosures   2014-02-02
Intel Releases 13 New Linux Benchmarks   Software   2013-01-18
The ARM Cortex-A9 Can Beat Out The Intel Atom   Processors   2012-09-03
AHCI vs. IDE Modes With A SATA 3.0 SSD On Linux   Software   2012-08-05
2011 Linux Graphics Survey Results   Display Drivers   2011-10-29
First Look: AMD Trinity APU, Linux Already Runs Well   Processors   2011-10-08
AMD Fusion A8-3850 APU "Llano" On Linux   Processors   2011-08-12
Coming Soon: OpenBenchmarking.org Live   Operating Systems   2011-05-13
System76 Serval Professional Sandy Bridge   Computers   2011-04-14
Benchmarking & Continuous Testing Of LLVM   Software   2011-04-07
Making More Informed Linux Hardware Choices   Software   2011-02-27
SilverStone Milo ML03 HTPC   Enclosures   2011-02-25
What OpenBenchmarking.org Is About   Software   2011-02-02
NVIDIA OpenCL Linux Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2011-01-14
The Interesting Tale Of AMD's FirePro Drivers   Display Drivers   2010-12-30
Amazon EC2 Cloud Benchmarks   Processors   2010-12-21
Ubuntu: Faster, But More Power Hungry Than Mac OS X?   Software   2010-12-03
Benchmarks Of AMD's Newest Gallium3D Driver   Display Drivers   2010-11-22
What's Going On With Iveland & OpenBenchmarking.org   Software   2010-11-17
How Linux Benchmarking Will Change   Software   2010-10-20

OpenBenchmarking Linux & Open-Source News

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.1 With More Gen AI & LLM Features   Intel   2024-04-25
Llamafile 0.8 Releases With LLaMA3 & Grok Support, Faster F16 Performance   Free Software   2024-04-25
RNNoise 0.2 Released With AVX2 Optimizations For Neural Network Noise Suppression   Multimedia   2024-04-15
FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI   Multimedia   2024-04-05
Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times For AMD Zen 4   Programming   2024-03-31
Blender 4.1 Benchmarks Confirm Even Faster CPU Render Times Under Linux   Free Software   2024-03-27
Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support   Free Software   2024-03-26
Intel Releases SVT-AV1 2.0 For Even Faster AV1 Encoding   Intel   2024-03-15
OpenVINO 2024.0 Brings More GenAI Features, New JavaScript API   Intel   2024-03-06
WavPack Lossless Audio Compression Format Adds Multi-Threaded Encode/Decode   Multimedia   2024-03-02
Intel's oneDNN Neural Network Library Prepares For Lunar Lake Xe2, Sierra Forest & GNR   Intel   2024-03-01
Intel Releases OSPRay Studio 1.0 As Its Awesome Interactive Visualization & Ray-Tracing App   Intel   2024-02-24
VVenC 1.11 Brings More Performance Improvements For H.266/VVC Encoding   Multimedia   2024-02-21
dav1d 1.4 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations, RISC-V & LoongArch CPU Support   Multimedia   2024-02-17
Intel's OIDn 2.2 Released With Meteor Lake GPU Support, Better CPU Performance   Intel   2024-02-17
Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks For HPC & Desktop   Ubuntu   2024-01-30
Linux 6.8 Running Well On The AMD Threadripper 7980X, Maintaining Gains Made With v6.7   Linux Kernel   2024-01-23
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Boasts Some Big AI Wins & More With Linux 6.7   Linux Kernel   2024-01-21
Fedora Workstation 39 Delivers Some Nice Gains For AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Graphics   Fedora   2023-12-05
AMD Threadripper 7980X Kernel Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / 6.6 / 6.7   Linux Kernel   2023-12-04
Blosc Compressor Adds AVX-512 Bitshuffle: 20% Faster Compression For Zen 4 X3D CPU   Free Software   2023-11-04
9-Way AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / Ubuntu 23.10   AMD   2023-10-27
DeepSparse 1.5 Released For Faster AI Inference On CPUs   Free Software   2023-06-07
Testing Intel Raptor Lake With PCID Disabled & A Move Made By FreeBSD Last Year   Intel   2023-05-22
OpenVINO 2022.3 Released With Full Support For Sapphire Rapids, Intel dGPUs   Intel   2022-12-21
Intel Releases oneDNN 3.0 In Advance Of Sapphire Rapids   Intel   2022-12-20
Intel Engineers Release SVT-AV1 1.3 With More Optimizations, Tuning For Better AV1 Encode   Multimedia   2022-10-20
With AMD Zen 4, It's Surprisingly Not Worthwhile Disabling CPU Security Mitigations   AMD   2022-09-30
Intel oneDNN 2.7 Released With Sapphire Rapids & DG2 Optimizations, AMD GPU Bringup   Intel   2022-09-28
DDNet Cooperative Platformer Game Adds Vulkan Renderer   Linux Gaming   2022-09-18
FLAC 1.4 Released With AArch64 Optimizations, Faster x86_64 FMA   Multimedia   2022-09-11
Blender 3.3 CPU-Based Performance Looking Nice For AMD & Intel   Free Software   2022-09-08
Blender 3.3 Released With Intel oneAPI Backend, Improved AMD HIP Support   Free Software   2022-09-07
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5965WX Cooling With The Dynatron A39 Heatsink   AMD   2022-08-27
LZ4 v1.9.4 Achieves 20~70% Speedups For Some CPUs & Configurations   Free Software   2022-08-15
AMD Radeon 680M Graphics Benchmarks Across Various Linux Kernel, Mesa Versions   Radeon   2022-08-13
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5965WX Benchmarks Show Some Speedups With Linux 6.0 Git   AMD   2022-08-10
Intel's Open-Source SVT-AV1 v1.2 Video Encoder Released - More AVX2 Optimizations   Multimedia   2022-08-03
Unvanquished 0.53 Released For This Leading Open-Source FPS Game   Linux Gaming   2022-08-01
Intel Releases OSPRay Studio 0.11.1 For Ray-Traced, Interactive Visualizations   Intel   2022-07-26
Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 4.0 With Even Faster Performance   Arm   2022-07-22
The Current Retbleed Performance Costs With An AMD Ryzen 7 4800U   AMD   2022-07-17
Benchmarking The Linux 5.19 Kernel Built With "-O3 -march=native"   Linux Kernel   2022-07-13
Fresh MGLRU Benchmarks Are Looking Very Promising For Linux Performance   Linux Kernel   2022-07-05
Xonotic 0.8.5 Improves This Prominent Open-Source Game   Linux Gaming   2022-07-02
Intel Releases OSPRay Studio v0.11 Visualization / Ray-Tracing App   Intel   2022-06-27
AOM AV1 v3.4 Encoder Brings Better Performance   Multimedia   2022-06-18
Dasharo 1.0 Open-Source Firmware Released For MSI Alder Lake Motherboard   Coreboot   2022-06-15
Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware   Phoronix   2022-06-05
Intel Releases SVT-AV1 1.0 For Speedy AV1 Video Encoding   Intel   2022-04-22
dav1d 1.0 AV1 Video Decoder Nears Release With AVX-512 Acceleration   Multimedia   2022-02-28
Intel's SVT-AV1 0.9.1 Speedy AV1 Encoder Adds New SSE Kernels To Help Old CPUs   Intel   2022-02-24
LLVMpipe Patches Pending For Faster Vertex/Fragment Processing   Mesa   2022-02-18
Google Releases AOM-AV1 v3.3 Video Encoder Update With Performance Improvements   Multimedia   2022-02-18
X.Org vs. (X)Wayland Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce & AMD Radeon On Ubuntu 22.04   Linux Gaming   2022-02-14
Intel Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" Continues Moving In Right Direction With Linux 5.17   Intel   2022-02-08
Lenovo's Platform Profile Support For AMD Systems On Linux Has Been Busted   AMD   2022-02-02
A Look At Alder Lake Against Older CPUs Going Back To Sandy Bridge, Kaveri   Intel   2022-01-21
GravityMark 1.44 Released With Ray-Tracing Support   Vulkan   2022-01-16
OpenBenchmarking.org In 2021 By The Numbers   Phoronix Test Suite   2022-01-01
OBS Studio 27.2 Beta Brings SVT-AV1 Support, Official Flatpak Support   Linux Gaming   2021-12-30
LuxCoreRender 2.6 Released For This Great Open-Source, Physically Based Renderer   Free Software   2021-12-26
Intel oneAPI Toolkits 2022 Released   Intel   2021-12-22
Modernized Zstd Merged Into Linux 5.16 For Much Greater Performance   Linux Kernel   2021-11-13
Rav1e 0.5 Brings More Speed-Ups For This Rust AV1 Encoder   Multimedia   2021-11-07
More Linux Performance Benchmark Data For Alder Lake, Comparison Data Points   Intel   2021-11-04
AV1 Codec Library libaom v3.2 Brings More Performance Optimizations   Multimedia   2021-10-15
Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-10-10
PostgreSQL 14.0 Released With More Performance Improvements   Programming   2021-09-30
Updated Zstd Implementation For The Linux Kernel Coming Soon   Linux Kernel   2021-09-29
Ubuntu 21.10 Delivering Some Performance Gains On The Intel Core i9 11900K   Ubuntu   2021-09-08
Dav1d 0.9.2 Released With More SSSE3, SSE4, AVX2, NEON Optimizations   Multimedia   2021-09-05
Linux 5.14 SSD Benchmarks With Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS   Linux Storage   2021-08-27
AV1 VA-API Acceleration Coming For AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Linux Users   Radeon   2021-08-13
Rav1e 0.5 Beta Released For This Rust-Written AV1 Encoder   Multimedia   2021-08-09
dav1d 0.9.1 Released With More Optimizations - Particularly For Older CPUs   Multimedia   2021-08-02
LE9, Canonical's Profits, Steam Deck, & Loongson 3A5000 Made For An Exciting July   Phoronix   2021-08-01
Apache Cassandra 4.0 Big Data Database Management System Released   Free Software   2021-07-27
Loongson 3A5000 Benchmarks For These New Chinese CPUs Built On The LoongArch ISA   Hardware   2021-07-24
Squeezing More Performance Out Of Intel Tiger Lake Xe Graphics By Using Mesa Git   Intel   2021-07-18
Hashcat 6.2.3 Introduces AMD HIP Backend   Free Software   2021-07-17
New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-07-03
Intel's Latest CPU Microcode Update Isn't All That Scary   Intel   2021-06-22
GravityMark Launches As Cross-API Graphics Benchmark From Former Unigine Dev   Free Software   2021-06-15
Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old, Covering The Linux Hardware Scene Daily   Phoronix   2021-06-05
Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance   Arm   2021-06-04
Blender 2.93 LTS Released With Big Changes   Free Software   2021-06-02
New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-06-02
NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux Gaming Performance For End Of May 2021 Drivers   Hardware   2021-05-30
Toggling Spectre Mitigations On Xeon Scalable Ice Lake Show Little Runtime Difference   Intel   2021-05-23
Intel Tiger Lake Performance On Ubuntu 21.04 Benchmarks   Intel   2021-05-23
AVX2 Tuning Paying Off Big Time For Dav1d 10b/12b Video Decode   Multimedia   2021-05-17
Dav1d 0.9 Released With AVX2-Tuned 10b/12b Decode For Big Speed Boost   Multimedia   2021-05-16
Zstd 1.5 Released With Big Performance Improvements   Standards   2021-05-14
AV1 Decoder dav1d Lands 10-bit AVX2 Assembly For Big Speed-Up, Thanks Facebook + Netflix   Multimedia   2021-05-11
Libaom, SVT-AV1 Mark New Open-Source AV1 Encoder Releases This Week   Multimedia   2021-05-09
New, Updated Benchmarks For April From WRF To Chia + Xmrig   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-05-02
Concurrent TLB Flushing For Linux 5.13 Provide A Small Performance Benefit   Linux Kernel   2021-04-29
KFence Memory Safety Error Checking Is Looking Good For Minimal Overhead On Linux 5.12   Linux Kernel   2021-04-19
LuxCoreRender 2.5 Open-Source PBR Renderer Released With NVIDIA OptiX/RTX Support   Free Software   2021-04-10
Intel oneDNN 2.2 Released With More Optimizations For Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids   Intel   2021-04-03
More Intel Core i5 11600K, Core i9 11900K Benchmarks   Intel   2021-03-31
Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-03-28
AOMedia libaom AV1 3.0 Encoder Released With Better Compression Efficiency   Multimedia   2021-03-24
FreeCAD 0.19 Released For Advancing Open-Source CAD Software   Free Software   2021-03-22
AV1 Codec Library libaom 3.0-rc1 Released   Multimedia   2021-03-18
System76 Pangolin Laptop Launches - Powered By AMD Ryzen 4000 Series   Hardware   2021-03-16
Additional AMD EPYC 75F3 / 7713 / 7763 Linux Performance Benchmarks   Hardware   2021-03-15
Software-Defined Radio Benchmarks, Other Updates This Week   Free Software   2021-03-13
Basis Universal GPU Texture Codec 1.13 Encoder Is Now Even Faster   Programming   2021-03-13
Upstream 7-Zip Adds Preliminary Linux Support   Programming   2021-03-12
Intel Tiger Lake Xe Graphics On Linux 5.12 Git, Mesa 21.1-devel   Intel   2021-03-05
Zstd 1.4.9 Released With ~2x Faster Performance For Long Mode   Programming   2021-03-03
AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance Looking Good For AMD With Linux 5.12 Fix   AMD   2021-03-01
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-02-28
Blender 2.92 Released With Geometry Nodes, OpenCL For Intel Iris/Xe   Free Software   2021-02-25
Early Ubuntu 21.04 Benchmarks Point To Some Slides In Performances But Overall Flat   Ubuntu   2021-02-23
dav1d 0.8.2 AV1 Decoder Showing Nice Uplift On Intel, AMD CPUs   Multimedia   2021-02-23
dav1d 0.8.2 Released For Speeding Up AV1 Decode On x86, ARM   Multimedia   2021-02-22
Linux 5.10.17 Backports CPUFreq Patches From 5.11 - Benchmarks   Linux Kernel   2021-02-18
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-02-17
Intel's oneDNN 2.1 Released With NVIDIA GPU Support, Initial Alder Lake Optimizations   Intel   2021-02-16
OSPRay Studio 0.6 Released For Intel's Open-Source Interactive Ray-Tracing Visualizer   Intel   2021-02-12
There's Finally A Decent Vulkan Ray-Tracing Benchmark   Vulkan   2021-02-09
Godot 4.0 Game Engine Seeing Many Exciting CPU / GPU Optimizations   Linux Gaming   2021-02-03
Intel's Open-Source Embree Ray-Tracing Library Wins An Academy Award   Intel   2021-02-03
Many Exciting New & Updated Benchmarks For January 2021   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-02-02
OpenBenchmarking.org / PTS Adds Automated Per-Test Analysis Of CPU Instruction Set Usage   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-02-01
Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement   Phoronix   2021-02-01
Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance   Programming   2021-01-24
Chrome 89 Preparing To Ship With AV1 Encoder For WebRTC Usage   Google   2021-01-22
AMD + Older Intel CPUs To See Much Faster AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance On Linux 5.12   Hardware   2021-01-16
Rav1e 0.4 Released For Faster Rust AV1 Encoding - But Still Is Quite Slow   Multimedia   2021-01-14
Alibaba's MNN Deep Learning Framework Continues Squeezing More Performance   Programming   2021-01-09
POWER9 + ARM64 Performance For Dav1d 0.8 AV1 Decoding   Multimedia   2021-01-09
Mozilla Firefox Flips On AVIF Image Decoding By Default   Mozilla   2021-01-08
dav1d 0.8 Released With More Optimizations - More AMD Performance   Multimedia   2021-01-03
New + Updated Benchmarks For December 2020   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-01-03
OpenBenchmarking.org Enjoyed A Major Overhaul In 2020, Significant Growth   Phoronix Test Suite   2020-12-31
Linux 5.11 Is Looking Like A Wild And Bumpy Ride On AMD CPUs So Far   AMD   2020-12-24
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 3 Released For The Latest In Open-Source Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2020-12-22
Mozilla Firefox Appears Ready To Enable AVIF Image Handling Support By Default   Mozilla   2020-12-20
The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Continue To Impress On Linux   AMD   2020-12-09
Intel Releases oneDNN 2.0 To Bring The Open-Source Neural Network Library To Its GPUs   Intel   2020-12-09
A Look At Linux 5.10 + Mesa 21.0-dev On Intel "Tiger Lake" Xe Graphics   Intel   2020-12-07
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 2 Brings More Testing Enhancements   Phoronix Test Suite   2020-12-06
A Quick Look At The Spectre Mitigation State For AMD Zen 3 On Windows 10   AMD   2020-12-05
Godot Game Engine Has Been Backing "Betsy" As A GPU-Based Texture Compressor   Linux Gaming   2020-11-26
Radeon RX 6800 Series 1440p Linux Gaming Benchmarks With 15 GPUs   Radeon   2020-11-25
The 2020 US Thanksgiving / Black Friday Phoronix Premium Special   Premium   2020-11-24