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AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025
AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025

This looks to be a wrap on 2025, Happy New Year to all the Phoronix readers over the past 21+ years. This year on Phoronix there were 226 original Linux hardware reviews and featured benchmark articles written by your's truly. Plus another 3,286 original open-source/Linux software and hardware news articles this calendar year. Here were the big topics of 2025 for the featured Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles.

31 December 2025 - Top Linux Hardware Reviews - 3 Comments
Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November
Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November

It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust programming language adoption by open-source projects, a lot of fun hardware benchmarks, and more. There were 283 original news articles on Phoronix the past month about Linux/open-source software and hardware plus another 18 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most popular content over the past month.

1 December 2025 - November 2025 - Add A Comment
Black Friday Reminder For Those Hating Ads But Loving Linux Hardware/Software
Black Friday Reminder For Those Hating Ads But Loving Linux Hardware/Software

As the one and last friendly reminder, if you enjoy the daily and original content found on Phoronix.com but not liking ads and wanting to view multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and more: the 2025 Black Friday / Cyber Week deal is ending Monday to help support the site while enjoying a discounted rate.

28 November 2025 - Black Friday - 7 Comments
Linux 6.18 Kernel Happenings, Python 3.14, NTFSPLUS & Other October Highlights
Linux 6.18 Kernel Happenings, Python 3.14, NTFSPLUS & Other October Highlights

During the month of October on Phoronix were 305 original news articles around Linux/open-source and another 21 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. There was an exciting mix of software and hardware happenings over the past month. Here is a look back at what excited readers the most.

1 November 2025 - October 2025 - 1 Comment
Today Is The Last Day On Our Autumn Deal To Help Support Linux Hardware Reviews
Today Is The Last Day On Our Autumn Deal To Help Support Linux Hardware Reviews

Just a friendly reminder that today is the last day for those wishing to join Phoronix Premium at a discounted rate. Less than 1% of readers currently do so for helping to support the site and its Linux hardware testing and open-source news operations over the past 21 years. Joining Phoronix Premium gets you ad-free access, multi-page articles on a single page, custom forum avatar support, and other benefits all while helping for operations to continue during this difficult period for the web/ad industry.

30 September 2025 - Autumn Promotion - 4 Comments
Ad-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale
Ad-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale

While years ago it was a annual ritual and closest thing to a vacation around here (even though the daily original content persisted), the Phoronix pilgrimage/meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich sadly remains on hiatus. Web publishing operations remain difficult given the state of the industry and rampant ad-block use make even daily operations tight. But for those wishing to show their support for Phoronix during this autumn/fest period, there is the annual Phoronix Premium sale special for those wishing to help the site at a discounted rate to enjoy ad-free viewing, multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and other benefits.

20 September 2025 - Fall Sale 2025 - 29 Comments
AMD Linux Testing Captured All Top 10 Spots For Our Most-Viewed Articles In August
AMD Linux Testing Captured All Top 10 Spots For Our Most-Viewed Articles In August

Over the course of August on Phoronix were 267 original news articles and 17 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Coming somewhat as a surprise, AMD Linux testing articles and hardware reviews managed to capture all top 10 spots for the most viewed content... Something no single vendor has pulled off in the past 21 years of Phoronix. But with the launch of the Framework Desktop, AMD Krackan Point Linux testing for sub-$500 laptops, Threadripper 9000 series, and other hardware excitement, that feat happened in August.

1 September 2025 - AMD Linux Interest - 5 Comments
Last Call On The Phoronix 21st Birthday Premium Special
Last Call On The Phoronix 21st Birthday Premium Special

This week in marking Phoronix.com turning 21 years old there was a Phoronix Premium special for those wanting to enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits. That special deal is ending at end of day Monday (9 June) as your last chance to hop on this special.

8 June 2025 - 21st Birthday - 9 Comments
Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware
Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware

Phoronix has made it another year. Today marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com with a focus on providing Linux hardware reviews. Linux hardware support is a night and day difference then to today as is the overall ecosystem with all the major hardware vendors these days having some -- often significant -- levels of interest in Linux support. No longer is it typically a worry of whether your mouse, 56K modem, WiFi adapter, or other basic peripherals working but most often just a matter of how well the performance is on Linux, whether there is LVFS/Fwupd firmware updating support, and if other non-show-stopping features are supported. We still haven't managed the "year of the Linux desktop" but it's been wild with Chrome OS and Android being based on Linux, Linux coming to dominate the server world, Linux being ubiquitous to cloud computing, and Valve revolutionizing the Linux gaming space.

5 June 2025 - Phoronix Turns 21 - 19 Comments
Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May
Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May

May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your's truly for the month. Here is a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most during May.

1 June 2025 - May 2025 - 1 Comment
Framework 13 With Strix Point, Cheap RISC-V & Linux Kernel Happenings Topped April
Framework 13 With Strix Point, Cheap RISC-V & Linux Kernel Happenings Topped April

During the past month on Phoronix were 249 original news articles and another 23 featured Linux hardware reviews and multi-page benchmark articles. There was a lot of interesting topics in April from the launch of the Framework Laptop 13 powered by AMD Strix Point, an interesting and cheap RISC-V board coming about, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 proving to be an interesting low-power Linux laptop, Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releasing, and much more.

1 May 2025 - April 2025 Highlights - Add A Comment
Linux Kernel Developments, AMD RX 9070 GIMP 3.0 & Other March Highlights
Linux Kernel Developments, AMD RX 9070 GIMP 3.0 & Other March Highlights

There were 281 original news articles on Phoronix during the month of March along with another 14 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured-length articles and benchmarks. Here is a look back at the most exciting Linux and open-source content over the past month, in case you missed any of the interesting hardware launches, open-source software milestones, kernel changes, and other milestones.

1 April 2025 - March 2025 Highlights - Add A Comment
AMD's Latest Wares, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Kernel Changes Excited Linux Users So Far In 2025
AMD's Latest Wares, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Kernel Changes Excited Linux Users So Far In 2025

As the last planned article of the quarter, here is a look back at the most popular Phoronix content from Q1'2025 with 822 original news articles and 40 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews written by your's truly. There were interesting hardware launches from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA this quarter along with a never-ending pace of new open-source software innovations and the unfortunate ongoing drama within the free software community.

31 March 2025 - Q1-2025 Recap - Add A Comment
Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January
Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January

During the month of January on Phoronix were 292 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 13 featured-length Linux hardware reviews and other multi-page benchmark specials. Here's a look back at the most exciting Linux/open-source news and content over the past month.

1 February 2025 - January 2025 Highlights - 1 Comment
Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December
Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December

While there was the year-end holidays, daily activity on Phoronix doesn't let up and over the course of December there were 256 original news articles around Linux/open-source on the site along with 24 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here's a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most as we closed out 2024.

3 January 2025 - December Highlights - Add A Comment
AMD Zen 5 Captivated Linux Reader Interest In 2024
AMD Zen 5 Captivated Linux Reader Interest In 2024

With 2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles for 2024. In addition to the three thousand original Linux/open-source news articles last year, there was 191 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by myself. AMD Zen 5 on Linux easily dominated the list of most popular articles for the year along with ZLUDA and several of the Intel Arrow Lake and Granite Rapids articles plus the Framework 16 laptop.

2 January 2025 - AMD Zen 5 - 1 Comment
Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November
Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November

November was filled with interesting Linux benchmarks ranging from the Apple M4 testing kicking off to ongoing AMD Zen 5 benchmarks both for desktops and servers, a lot of exciting upstream kernel activity (and some drama...), and more. Even with the end of year holidays around, there remains new and original content on Phoronix each and every day. During November there were 250 original news articles on Phoronix along with another 14 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured-length benchmark articles.

1 December 2024 - November 2024 Highlights - 1 Comment
Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale To Better Enjoy Our Linux Hardware Reviews & News
Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale To Better Enjoy Our Linux Hardware Reviews & News

While the end of year holidays are fast approaching, my commitment to Linux hardware and open-source software remains and there still is a lot of interesting content to come this year still -- each and every day, without change for roughly a decade. Unfortunately though due to the (sad) state of the ad industry, many major companies focusing on the likes of Facebook/Meta ads, and the frequent use of ad-blockers by Linux/FLOSS readers make ongoing operations increasingly difficult. But if you'd like to show some love this holiday season, the Phoronix Premium "Cyber Week" / "Black Friday" special is now taking place so you can enjoy the site ad-free, native dark mode support, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits while hopefully allowing the site to continue for years to come.

26 November 2024 - Cyber Week 2024 - 18 Comments
Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October
Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October

October is now in the books after writing 247 original news articles and another 24 Linux hardware reviews / featured multi-page benchmark articles. From the launches of Intel Arrow Lake and AMD EPYC 9005 to other interesting new hardware, the Russian Linux kernel drama, Linux 6.12 developments and early Linux 6.13 patches queuing in "-next" branches, October was an interesting month both for hardware and open-source software.

1 November 2024 - October Highlights - 2 Comments
Improvements To The Ad Experience
Improvements To The Ad Experience

As a result of user feedback and being able to reproduce some annoying ad experiences, particularly on mobile devices, I've been able to make some enhancements to hopefully improve the user ad experience when browsing Phoronix.

13 October 2024 - Ad Tweaks - 50 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August

August was a very busy month with the first AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processors going on sale, finally having AmpereOne 192-core Arm processors in the lab, Linux kernel development continuing to advance at a brisk pace, and a variety of other interesting software and hardware milestones. On Phoronix for the month were 213 original news articles authored by me as well as another 20 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles.

1 September 2024 - August 2024 Highlights - 4 Comments
Linux 6.11, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver & Other July News
Linux 6.11, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver & Other July News

July was an interesting month both in the open-source software world with the Linux 6.11 merge window and other software milestones while also being eventful on the hardware side with the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series launch as the first of the Zen 5 processors. During July on Phoronix were 255 original news articles written by your's truly and another 15 featured articles / multi-page reviews.

1 August 2024 - July 2024 Recap - 1 Comment
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights

With the first half of the year drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular content on Phoronix so far in 2024. Year to date there has been 1,530 original news articles so far and 78 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by your's truly. There has been a lot happening in 2024 from Linux kernel improvements to exciting new hardware and other open-source advances.

30 June 2024 - H1-2024 Highlights - Add A Comment
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years

With this week marking the 20th birthday of Phoronix, as part of the commemorative articles this week has been looking at the most popular Linux/open-source news over 20 years. In the piece today is looking back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other featured articles on Phoronix since 2004.

7 June 2024 - 20 Year Recap - 1 Comment