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.
A new AMD AGESA BIOS update is boosting the performance of Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series processors by reducing latency.
Following the Windows 11 24H2 and 23H2 optimizations for Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5), a new 105-watt TDP mode brings even more performance.
AMD came under some heat recently as a result of its poor showing with the Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs. However, the company says that a performance patch is coming soon.
According to several user reports online, Google was apparently slowing YouTube down if it detected adblockers. However, Adblock has now confirmed that such is not the case at all.
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.
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.
VirtualBox has received a major update today which fixes crashes related to TPM, graphical issues on Windows 11, and performance problems on Macs. Aside from that, Linux 6.5 and 6.4 are supported.
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AMD has finally managed to fix the high power draw issue which affected its Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT GPUs on multi-monitor or 4k144 FreeSync monitors. VR gaming issues have also been fixed.
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.
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.
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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.
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Microsoft and Intel touted special Windows 11 optimization on Alder Lake when it came out. However, the performance gap has shrunk and it could be completely wiped out thanks to new Linux patch.
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Microsoft has acknowledged that it is aware of issues affecting Visual Studio 2022 and other .NET-based applications. The company confirms that a fix has been deployed and is rolling out soon.
Intel has released a patch that claims to fix a problem related to Speed Select Technology (SST), which is causing a performance loss of more than 10%. SST is a power management solution on Xeons.
A patch has been released by a Redditor that improves performance on AMD Ryzen CPUs in the extremely popular Cyberpunk 2077 title. The hotfix enables SMT on Ryzen for better CPU utilization.
