… Now, the first benchmarks of NVIDIA's Vera CPU have been published by Phoronix , and they showcase a big leap in performance. In the Geomean of all test results, the NVIDIA Vera CPU with 88 Olympus cores ended up 63% faster than its predecessor, the 72-core Grace CPU. …
… As reported by Phoronix , a new open-source project called Low Latency Layer is trying to bring both to Linux. This layer can reportedly enable both Anti Lag 2 and Reflex 2 functionality even on non-NVIDIA hardware, such as AMD and Intel graphics cards. …
… However, by reducing the open-source contributions across the board, Phoronix specifically claims that Intel might be looking towards a "de facto vendor lock-in" similar to NVIDIA's CUDA. …
… Related Story NVIDIA Hand-Delivers First Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Oracle as Grace’s Successor Powers the Agentic AI Era Phoronix reports that NVIDIA has been submitting new open-source Nova Driver patches that clearly show NVIDIA is now transitioning to Boot42 and is ditching Boot… …
… Recent closed-door benchmarks by Phoronix performed at NVIDIA showcased some decent performance figures for NVIDIA Verano CPUs, but obviously, those were conducted under NVIDIA's observation, and the power/thermal characteristics were just some of the many tests that were missing. …
… News Source: Phoronix About the author : Sarfraz Khan is a hardware reporter with a focus on PC components and the builder community. …
… Continued work on the NVIDIA Nova driver. …
… NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review Roundup: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11 GB Review SLI @ Hardware.Info NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11 GB Review @ PCGamer NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11 GB Review @ Eurogamer NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition… …
… Phoronix reports that support for the upcoming 11th Gen CPUs with Gen 12 'Xe' platform has been added to the latest Linux driver. …