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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / Ryzen 9 7950X Benchmarks Show Impressive Zen 4 Linux Performance
ASTC texture compression with astcenc was showing huge speed-ups with the Ryzen 9 7900 series thanks to being able to make use of modern AVX extensions,
The performance-per-Watt for the Ryzen 9 7900 series was leading too in this area thanks to the very strong performance uplift.
Etcpak, Google's Draco, and other creator workloads around 3D textures were also performing very well on AMD's new hardware.