Summary of the week of December 12, 2022

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RDNA 3 vs Arc Alchemist vs Ada Lovelace

In this entry, they make an in-depth objective analysis of the three graphics architectures of the moment: RDNA 3 from AMD, Arc from Intel, and Ada Lovelace from Nvidia.

Intel improves DX9 performance in Arc

Intel has released a new driver for its Arc that doubles the performance of titles that still rely on DirectX 9, such as CS:GO.

Thunderbird continues its path to Android

The Thunderbird team continues to modify the K-9 Mail client for Android to turn it into what will be Thunderbird for Android. The changes are predominantly aesthetic and are already available in beta form.

SSD units continue to break performance records

Integrated 232-layer NANDs that reach 2400MT/s are already in production. In addition to a read and write rate of several thousand MB/s, they are already reaching almost a million random I/O operations in 4kB blocks.

An Atom with AVX-512

Intel has presented Gracemont, an Atom platform whose processors come with AVX-512, which is possibly the most demanding repertoire in terms of thermal design.

Linux 6.1 available

Linux 6.1 is the first version to include code snippets in Rust. Rust is a language that is increasingly attracting attention as a substitute for C and C++ for the development of operating systems and software in general, thanks to its memory management and the improvement in security that this entails.

Core i9-13900K

Xevipiu brings us another processor review. This time it's about the Core i9-13900K, which went on sale just over a month ago and comes with 24 Raptor Lake cores. It stays in first position in both single and multi-threaded tests. Moreover, at stock frequency, it outperforms all overclocked CPUs and is number one in all tests except for memory.

Firefox 108 available

The one hundred and eighth version of Firefox is now available. Among other things, it comes with WebMIDI, an extension in JS that allows web pages to interact with MIDI musical instruments.

A lossless video editor

LosslessCut is an open-source video editor that allows you to perform essential operations on video and audio sequences without loss. As a counterpart, it has been developed on Electron.

Resource monitor in the console with htop

htop is a resource monitor for Linux that works on the console. It offers additional information to that provided by the classic top, such as the frequency and temperature of each core of the processor.

Xfce 4.18 available

Version 4.18 of Xfce is now available. With it, another Linux desktop compatible with Wayland is launched. In addition, the various tools of the environment have been improved.

Core i7-13700K

Someone has brought us an i7-13700K that is only slightly eclipsed by Xevipiu's i9-13900K. It gets the second position in single-threaded and third in multi-threaded. The interesting thing is that (pending other modes), it achieves a practically identical performance to the i9-12900K, the latter being from a higher range but a year older.