WinRAR, 7-Zip and NanaZip have all received updates, which bring multiple improvements and bug fixes, including performance improvements.
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Intel spots a single line of code that sees Linux gain a massive nearly 40 times or 4000% performance gain.
Microsoft has confirmed it is all set to make more of Edge "very fast" thanks to its in-house WebUI 2.0 framework.
Alongside a paid study showing a ridiculous Windows 11 performance advantage, Microsoft has also published a real example of improvement in 24H2's file system.
A user has claimed that Windows 11 in its latest form, version 24H2, is finally "definitely" fast even on an old CPU that is not officially supported.
AMD's Ryzen processors are getting a performance boost on both Windows and Linux thanks to an AGESA firmware update.
Linus Torvalds has accepted Microsoft's Hyper-V upgrade which should lead to Linux booting up faster than before in the very near future.
A new AMD AGESA BIOS update is boosting the performance of Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series processors by reducing latency.
A performance uplift of up to 80% is being promised by the latest major Parallels Desktop update on Windows 11 version, 24H2. App compatibility has also got a boost.
Following the Windows 11 24H2 and 23H2 optimizations for Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5), a new 105-watt TDP mode brings even more performance.
You can get a free performance boost by upgrading to Windows 11 24H2 if you have an AMD Ryzen processor in your system.
Microsoft had blocked Windows 11 upgrades on 24H2 PCs in case it found a system was using StartAllBack, a third-party Start menu tweaking app. StartAllBack has now received 24H2 support.
There is a new third-party unofficial Windows application on the block which claims to optimize your CPU and system thus reducing the temperature of the PC and preventing overheating.
Google Chrome remains the dominant web browser in the market in terms of market share, and performance may have a lot to do with it. The company has detailed how it managed to gain so much recently.
Linux is about to get a huge performance boost in AES-XTS or AES encryption performance thanks to new improvements. This could tip people over to make the switch from Windows 11 24H2 over to 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.
AtlasOS is a lightweight modified Windows variant and the developer of the ap recently reminded potential users about its benefits, which include snappy Windows performance, especially gaming.
Even powerful computers with fast SSDs and expensive processors can have a hard time opening folders with large numbers of files on Windows. Tweaking one option in the registry can fix that problem.
Microsoft may finally be getting to fix File Explorer issues on Windows 11 23H2. There have been user complaints over the general performance and snappiness of the component, among others.
A bug can apparently speed up Windows File Explorer when switching to full-screen mode (by pressing F11) and then exiting full-screen mode. It makes folder content and thumbnails load much faster.
Following AMD fixing its Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart issues related to rendering and ray tracing, Nvidia has now released a hotfix driver to fix its own DirectStorage performance problems.
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Intel and Netflix co-developed the SVT-AV1 codec a few years ago, a software-based CPU encoding AV1 solution. The latest update of the codec claims to feature a performance boost of up to 40%.
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The latest versions of Geekbench, v6.1, as well as y-cruncher, have improved support for Intel's AVX-512 instruction. However, Intel's own current processors do not support this anymore.
Unlike Microsoft's Windows 11, next-gen Linux will not only support older AMD Ryzen processors, but they could even get some decent performance boosts too. This is suggested by a recent patch.
After releasing Moment 3, Microsoft has gone in-depth in terms of details about the performance improvements it made to Windows 11 and its various applications and features over the year.
Microsoft has announced several developer tools and solutions today at its Build 2023 event. Leaked previously, the company has unveiled its new Dev Box today which claims to boost VS performance.
Microsoft has announced today a major update for its Lists app. The main highlight of the update revolves around performance and optimization as the tech giant promises twice the speed.
As Microsoft makes more progress with ReFS on Windows 11, Linux is also getting performance optimizations and improvements on some of its major file systems, namely, F2FS, Btrfs, and EXT4.
Intel is making a new L4 cache specifically designed for improving boot times on its next-gen Meteor Lake processors. This means we could expect faster booting on next-gen Windows 11, and more.
The latest version, 1.2, of the DirectStorage API brings new features, changes and improvements, as well as bug fixes. Microsoft says there is performance improvements in store as well, even for HDDs.
Following Teams, Microsoft's Teams for Education is also getting a two times performance boost, alongside reduced CPU, RAM, disk, and other resource usages. There are also other new features.
AMD recently released chipset drivers for Windows which are optimized for Ryzen 7000X3D chips and boost performance-per-watt. A new CPPC patch reveals power efficiency gains are also coming to Linux.
The reviews for AMD's highly anticipated Ryzen 7950X3D came out earlier today and it's a good gaming CPU. In this article, we show how the Xbox Game Bar app can be used to get the best of the chip.
While not publicly listed yet, some of AMD's partners have begun releasing AMD's new 5.01.29.2026 chipset driver which boosts performance of Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs on Windows 11 and Windows 10.
AMD has been on a roll lately. After promising performance gains with its previous GPU driver, it now claims to have fixed Ryzen and Radeon DX 11 issues with the latest Windows WHQL driver update.
Although AMD didn't promise any gains specific to ray tracing with its recent RX 6000-series driver, rumors suggested there were big gains to be had. We tested to see if there was any truth to these.
A major new version of Microsoft Teams will reportedly be released in a preview version in March. It will have lots of RAM, CPU, and battery life improvements and has been labeled as Teams 2.0 or 2.1.
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AMD took a long time to finally release a driver for its last gen Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs. However, the delay may be worth it as some users are reporting massive performance gains in ray tracing.
The February update for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) is here. The latest release claims to improve performance by up to 50% in the case of AMD and Intel CPUs, alongside other improvements.
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.
