AMD Zen 3 processors are getting a little Linux love ahead of their release later this year, seemingly confirming a significant change from the existing Zen CPU architectures we've already seen. AMD ...

If you read that headline and thought, "what the heck, Zen 4 just came out," I have bad news for you, friend. The Ryzen 7000 series processors for desktop and their Socket AM5 platform came out last ...

Recent patches to the Linux kernel have added support for four new numerical ranges of AMD Family 26 processors, also known as Zen 5 CPUs. This development, confirmed by sources including Phoronix, ...

In other recent Linux news, the developer of Horizon Linux is working to bring native support for Nintendo Switch games to Linux (it’s still in the very early stages), Debian Linux turns 29 today, and ...

Most synthetic benchmarks on Linux exhibit this phenomenon, including Stress-NG, which experienced a 26.6% decline in CPU performance when all security measures were turned on. However, security ...

Xinix, pronounced “zen-ics,” is an innovative newcomer to the world of Linux distros. Now in beta, this distro has been spearheaded by a single developer who is slowly bringing other programmers on ...

The release of Linux 6.3 has been largely uneventful, a far cry from the frenzied activity of recent releases. Torvalds has said that this might be a good sign, that the recent stability was more due ...

Barring something unforeseen and catastrophic, Zen 3 is definitely making a debut this year. We know this because AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su has indicated as much on numerous occasions, including in a recent ...

Back in November, AMD debuted their new Zen 2 architecture. The new chips will offer a massive boost in performance, building on Zen and Zen+. To achieve the performance numbers, AMD has made a number ...

The top-end Ryzen 7 1800X boasts eight cores and 16 threads just like Intel’s Kaby Lake Core i7-6900K, but in a 95W package that costs half the price of Intel’s octo-core offering. And when it comes ...