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CachyOS Rolls Out Zen 4 Optimized Repository For Maximizing Zen 4 & Zen 5 Performance
Arch Linux based CachyOS has released their 'July 2024' release that also introduces an AMD Zen 4 optimized repository that caters to current Ryzen 7000/8000 and EPYC 4004/8004/9004 (Zen 4) procssors and upcoming Zen 5 processors.
The Zen 4 optimized repository makes use of the " znver4" compiler target for enabling all of the extra AVX-512 instructions and other CPU instructions on top of the base x86-64-v4 target like RDPID, RDRND, RDSEED, GFNI, and others. CachyOS with their kernel now also patches in AMD Core Performance Boost support. That AMD P-State driver support for CPB is being upstreamed in Linux 6.11 while for now it's being carried by the CachyOS kernel as extra patches.
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