AMD's Ryzen processors are getting a performance boost on both Windows and Linux thanks to an AGESA firmware update.
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Linus Torvalds has accepted Microsoft's Hyper-V upgrade which should lead to Linux booting up faster than before in the very near future.
The AMD Ryzen 9000 which launched recently impressed reviewers with its efficiency but disappointed them with the overall performance. Interestingly, the CPU appears to be faster on Linux.
AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128.
Linux users who run AMD Ryzen systems can be very happy today. Latest testing data shows that the newer Linux platform is showing very significant performance gains over the last few years.
Performance evaluation of the recently released Debian 11 (bullseye) stable version shows an overall improvement of 8~10% against Debian 10. And in some instances, the gains are more than double.
