Summary of the week of December 14, 2020

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This week someone has managed to unseat the i9-7980XE from @Xevipiu after having been number 1 for no less than two years.

Linux 5.10 available

As always, it comes with support for new hardware and bugs fixed. One of the most interesting changes (at least for Raspberry Pi users) is native support for the board's audio.

CentOS reappears

The community has decided to continue development by forking Red Hat's distro to create Rocky Linux Enterprise.

The state of RISC-V

The non-profit organization behind the open architecture has published a report talking about the state of the ISA. There is a list of companies and other entities that have adopted RISC-V for the development of one processor or another.

Flash memory supply glut

SSD unit prices are estimated to fall by up to 15% next year.

Quake II RTX now works on AMD GPUs

The arrival of raytracing support for Vulkan has meant that the game, once an exclusive for Nvidia graphics, now also works on AMD GPUs.

Firefox 84 comes with webrender on Linux

In addition, they have released a version compiled for Apple's new processor, which brings great performance improvements to users of the most recent Macs. On the other hand, it will be the last version of the browser to support the legendary Adobe Flash.

GTK 4.0 available

The library on which desktop environments such as Gnome or Mate (among others) are based has a new major version. As has been happening for some time, it does not bring groundbreaking new features and, in fact, Gnome has no plans to increase the version number when it starts using GTK 4.

The Debian website is renewed

After too many years with an austere and dysfunctional design, the people at Debian have decided to make some changes to their website. For the first time, it will be possible to download the system without having to navigate through intricate menus.

i9-10980XE

Someone has just brought us a beast that has unseated the first processor in the overall ranking. It is a Cascade Lake with no less than 18 cores with HT, 24MB of L3 cache and a TDP of 135W. It scores a million and a quarter points and becomes the number 1 in the overall ranking, surpassing the one that has been the king of our benchmark for the last 2 years: the i9-7980XE.