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📰 New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1 Dynamic EPP is one of the new AMD P-State features in Linux 7.1, but, unfortunately is causing some fallout in early usage of this power-savings related functionality... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Dynamic-EPP-Fallout #amd#linux

📰AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit. 🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amd-promises-to-bring-improved-hardware-backed-fsr-4-upscaling-to-older-radeon-gpus/ #amd

📰 AMD announce FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2 They sure took their sweet time didn't they. AMD have officially announced that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is officially coming to their older GPUs.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/amd-announce-fsr-upscaling-4-1-officially-coming-to-rdna-3-and-rdna-2/ #amd

📰Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux I have been writing about the Cache Aware Scheduling work led by Intel engineers on the Linux kernel for more than a year. I've also tested out Cache Aware Scheduling on both Intel and AMD CPUs with the patched Linux kernel to great success. And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Cache-Aware-Sched-Nears #amd#intel#kernel#linux

📰 Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux open-source graphics driver team isn't done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that was announced today. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DRM-Format-Modifiers-GCN #amd#linux#opensource

📰AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday Today's Patch Tuesday is a busier one than normal for the quarter. Both AMD and Intel have rolled out new updates for Linux customers among other security disclosures today. Thankfully though the vulnerabilities don't appear to be too widespread or impactful... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Patch-Tuesday-May-2026 #amd#intel#linux

📰 Further expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux now with FRL and DSC Good news for Linux gamers and the upcoming Steam Machine, as it appears the AMD GPU kernel drivers are expanding their HDMI 2.1 support even further.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/further-expanded-amd-hdmi-2-1-support-is-coming-to-linux-now-with-frl-and-dsc/ #amd#kernel#linux#steam

📰 Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Prominent Linux kernel engineer Peter Zijlstra of Intel has been working on a set of scheduler patches to help with enhancing the behavior and delivering better results, especially for aging hardware he described as a "potato" -- an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop CPU with AMD Radeon RX 580 Polaris graphics. Benchmark results are promising from this work for gaming on old hardware while other workloads may ultimately stand to benefit too... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Flatten-The-Pick #amd#intel#kernel#linux

📰 Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026 The open-source Radeon "R300g" driver living within the Mesa codebase for supporting the aging ATI (AMD) Radeon 9500 "R300" through Radeon X1000 "R500" series graphics processors is going through a big code restructuring as part of a big undertaking in 2026... Yes, 24 years after the ATI R300 GPUs first released, thanks to a devoted open-source developer fan, there is a significant improvement in the works... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/R300g-Code-Cleanup-2026 #amd#opensource

📰 Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation A few weeks back we reviewed the redesigned System76 Thelio Mira with a brand new chassis design and powered by the AMD Ryzen 9000 series. This was an interesting Linux-powered desktop manufactured in Colorado while for those needing a bit more performance, since then the redesigned Thelio Major launched. The new System76 Thelio Major provides an updated Thelio case design like Mira while comes packed with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-thelio-major-9980x #amd#linux#opensource

📰 AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2 Last week's drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager and accelerator driver feature material destined for Linux 7.2 include some new power management control features both for the AMD Ryzen AI and Intel NPU drivers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Intel-NPU-Drivers-Power-7.2 #amd#intel#linux

📰 After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops Planned across three new Fedora releases, the initiative targets Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and ARM hardware. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17337726/fedora-ai-developer-desktops #amd#arm#fedora#intel#ubuntu