Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems

[Viki Ai]

Is there really that much difference between the Threadripper and Intel's latest offering?
Does Intel have anything in the works to counter with?

I believe that 3x comment is specifically referring to recent kernel-compile-time comparisons (something Linus, presumably, does rather a lot of, so it is a fair comparison in this particular case! ). For more general tasks you may or may not see that much improvement! (though I would still expect some improvement for most tasks, just not necessarily 3x).

[White Wolf]

This is a great news. Always there can be some improvements for AMD now easily tested by him

[CochainComplex]

I don't care what distro/desktop/CPU/whatever Linus prefers any more than I care what mouse Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel uses. What nonsense.

Well you should it is not about Kylie Jenner wears Gucci. If Linus uses AMD Threadripper you can be damn sure if there is a Kernel Bug* it will be targeted rather fast. Since the "head" of Linux is experiencing this bug. Or any kind of regression at all.

edit:*related to AMD Threadripper - or the whole Zen2 architecture

[CochainComplex]

These are not great times for Intel, that's for sure.

Why should GKH care about RGB?


...can "It needs to be quite" include no light emitting? as visual quiet

[TemplarGR]

Well you should it is not about Kylie Jenner wears Gucci. If Linus uses AMD Threadripper you can be damn sure if there is a Kernel Bug it will be targeted rather fast. Since the "head" of Linux is experiencing this bug. Or any kind of regression at all.

Please someone get him a Navi gpu.

[NM64]

Please someone get him a Navi gpu.

I'm pretty certain that no TRX40 motherboard contains integrated graphics since that's typically reserved for AM4 APUs and Epyc motherboards, so considering that Intel doesn't have consumer discrete GPUs available just yet and Linus doesn't exactly have the fondest opinion of Nvidia, there's a very good chance that he's at least using some form of AMD discrete GPU.

It's also worth noting that the whisper-quiet PC that Wendel built for Greg Kroah-Hartman uses a Radeon RX 5700XT.

[NM64]

Radeon RX 5700XT.

Blast, I typo'd - that should say 5600XT.

(if there's an edit function, it seems to not be available for me due to being a new member that still needs comments to be manually approved)

[DiDiDi]

Please someone get him a Navi gpu.

Not sure about Linus, but GKH has / soon will have RX 5600 XT.

[discordian]

Please someone get him a Navi gpu.

You want a picture of Linus giving the finger to AMD?

[pal666]

Going from a SATA SSD to probably NVMe SSD would help keep up with the faster CPU.

kernel build easily fits in ram