La candidate de gauche Claudia Sheinbaum, donnée vainqueur à l’élection présidentielle mexicaine, salue ses partisans avant d’aller voter, le 2 juin 2024 à Mexico. (Fred Ramos/The New York Times)
Les États-Unis ont fait pression sur le Hamas et le gouvernement israélien, dimanche, pour qu’ils acceptent le projet de cessez-le-feu à Gaza dévoilé vendredi par Joe Biden. Mais face à l’hostilité de ses ministres d’extrême droite, Benyamin Nétanyahou risque de devoir choisir entre la trêve et la survie de son gouvernement.
Le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin Nétanyahou lors la Journée du souvenir de la Shoah, au mémorial de Yad Vashem à Jerusalem, le 6 mai 2024. (Photo by AMIR COHEN / POOL / AFP)
AMD n'a toujours pas dit son dernier mot avec les plateformes AM4 en annonçant deux nouveaux processeurs à destination de leur ancienne plateforme. AMD assure qu'ils sont capables de rivaliser, voire, être meilleurs que les 13600K et 13700K de la concurrence. Ces nouveaux venus restent donc en ZEN 3 et exploiteront de la mémoire de type DDR4.
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Grand jour pour les machines compactes et nomades avec l'annonce par AMD des nouveaux processeurs Ryzen AI, avec le Ryzen AI 9 en star. Et surtout seule gamme dévoilée pour l'instant, avec les Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 et Ryzen AI 9 365.
Difficile de passer à côté, AMD profite de cette nouvelle génération pour changer de nomenclature : Ryzen AI pour la marque, 9 HX ou 9 pour la gamme, 3 pour la génération et enfin les deux derniers chiffres pour la référence du modèle. Bien entendu, cela ne donne pas toutes les informations et il faut donc aller plus loin pour tout savoir.
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AMD a donc annoncé ses nouveaux processeurs Ryzen 9000 durant sa conférence de presse au Computex 2024.
Comme les leaks l'avait déjà annoncé, nous allons avoir le droit à 4 nouvelles références, avec les Ryzen 5 9600X, Ryzen 7 9700X, Ryzen 9 9900X et Ryzen 9 9950X. Des processeurs qui débarqueront dans nos PC au moins de juillet prochain, accompagnés de nouveaux chipsets, les X870 et X870E.
Avec cette nouvelle architecture, AMD nous propose un IPC en hausse de 16% par rapport à l'architecture ZEN 4. […]
While the bulk of AMD’s Computex presentation was on CPUs and their Instinct lineup of dedicated AI accelerators, the company also has a small product refresh for the professional graphics and workstation AI crowd. AMD is releasing a dual-slot version of their high-end Radeon Pro W7900 card – aptly named the W7900 Dual Slot – with the intent being to improve compute density in workstations by making it possible to install 4 of the cards inside a single chassis.
The release of a dual-slot version of the card comes after the original Radeon Pro W7900 was the first time AMD went with a larger, triple-slot form factor for their flagship workstation card. With the W7000 generation bringing an all-around increase in power consumption, pushing the W7900 to 295 Watts, AMD originally opted to release a larger card for improved acoustics. However this came at the cost of compute density, as most systems could only fit 2 of the thicker cards. As a result, AMD is opting to release a dual-slot version of the hardware as well, to offer a more competitive product for high-density workstation systems – particularly those doing local AI inference.
AMD Radeon Pro Specification Comparison
AMD Radeon Pro W7900DS
AMD Radeon Pro W7900
AMD Radeon Pro W7800
AMD Radeon Pro W6800
ALUs
12288
(96 CUs)
8960
(70 CUs)
3840
(60 CUs)
ROPs
192
128
96
Boost Clock
2.495GHz
2.495GHz
2.32HHz
Peak Throughput (FP32)
61.3 TFLOPS
45.2 TFLOPS
17.8 TFLOPS
Memory Clock
18 Gbps GDDR6
18 Gbps GDDR6
16 Gbps GDDR6
Memory Bus Width
384-bit
256-bit
256-bit
Memiry Bandwidth
864GB/sec
576GB/sec
512GB/sec
VRAM
48GB
32GB
32GB
ECC
Yes
(DRAM)
Yes
(DRAM)
Yes
(DRAM)
Infinity Cache
96MB
64MB
128MB
Total Board Power
295W
260W
250W
Manufacturing Process
GCD: TSMC 5nm
MCD: TSMC 6nm
GCD: TSMC 5nm
MCD: TSMC 6nm
TSMC 7nm
Architecture
RDNA3
RDNA3
RDNA2
GPU
Navi 31
Navi 31
Navi 21
Form Factor
Dual Slot Blower
Triple Slot Blower
Dual Slot Blower
Dual Slot Blower
Launch Date
06/2024
Q2'2023
Q2'2023
06/2021
Launch Price (MSRP)
$3499
$3999
$2499
$2249
Other than the narrower cooler, the Radeon Pro W7900DS is for all intents and purposes identical to the original W7900, with the same Navi 31 GPU being driven to the same clockspeeds, and the overall board being run to the same 295 Total Board Power (TBP) limit. This is paired with the same 18Gbps GDDR6 as before, giving the card 48GB of VRAM.
Officially, AMD doesn’t have a noise specification for these cards. But you can expect that the W7900DS will be louder than its triple-slot senior. By all appearances, AMD is just using the cooler from the W7800, which was a dual-slot card from the start, so that cooler is being tasked with handling another 35W of heat dissipation.
As the W7800 was also AMD’s fastest dual-slot card up until now, it’s an apt point of comparison for compute density. With its full-fat Navi 31 GPU, the W7900DS will offer about 36% more compute/pixel throughput than its sibling/predecessor. So it’s a not-insubstantial improvement for the very specific niche AMD has in mind for the card.
And like so many other things being announced at Computex this year, that niche is AI. While AMD offers PCIe versions of their Instinct MI210 accelerators, those cards are geared at servers, with fully-passive coolers to match. So workstation-level compute is largely picked up by AMD’s Radeon Pro workstation cards, which are intended to go into a traditional PC chassis and use active cooling (blowers). In this case, AMD is specifically going after local inference workloads, as that’s what the Radeon hardware and its significant VRAM pool are best suited for.
The Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot will drop on June 19th. Notably, AMD is introducing the card at a slightly lower price tag than they launched the original W7900 at last year, with the W7900DS hitting retail shelves at $3499, down from the W7900’s original $3999 price tag.
ROCm 6.1 For Radeons Coming as Well
Alongside the release of the W7900DS, AMD is also promoting the upcoming Radeon release of ROCm 6.1, their software stack for GPU computing. While baseline ROCm 6.1 was introduced back in April, the Windows version of AMD’s software stack is still a trailing (and feature limited) release. So that is slated to finally get bumped up to a ROCm 6.1 release on June 19th, the same day the W7900DS launches.
ROCm 6.1 for Radeons is slated to bring a couple of major changes/improvements to the stack, particularly when it comes to expanding the scope of available features. Notably, AMD will finally be shipping Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) support, albeit at a beta level, allowing Windows users to access the much richer feature set and software ecosystem of ROCm under Linux. This release will also incorporate improved support for multi-GPU configurations, perfect timing for the launch of the Radeon Pro W7900DS.
Finally, ROCm 6.1 sees TensorFlow integrated into the ROCm software stack as a first-class citizen. While this matter involves more complexities than can be summarized in a simple news story, native TensorFlow support under Windows was previously blocked by a lack of a Windows version of AMD’s MIOpen machine learning library. Combined with WSL2 support, developers will have two ways to access TensorFlow on Windows systems going forward.
During their opening keynote at Computex 2024, AMD announced their intention to launch a pair of new Ryzen 5000 processors for their legacy AM4 platform. The new chips, both getting the XT suffix, will be the Ryzen 9 5900XT, a 16 core Zen 3 part, while the Ryzen 7 5800XT will be an 8 core Zen 3.
The new chips are intended to underscore AMD's ongoing commitment to supporting their consumer platforms over several years. And while the specification changes are rather minor overall – the Zen 3 CPU architecture has long since been taken as far as it can reasonable go – it does give AMD a chance to refresh the platform by slinging hardware at new price points. AMD did something very similar for the Ryzen 3000 generation with the late-model Ryzen 3000 XT chips.
The Ryzen 9 5900XT is a 16 core part, and isn't to be confused with the Ryzen 9 5900X, which is a 12 core part. It ships with a peak turbo clockspeed of 4.8GHz, 100 MHz lower than the top-tier Ryzen 9 5950X. This makes it's XT designation somewhat of a misnomer compared to previous generations of XT chips, although it's clear that AMD has boxed themselves into a corner with their naming scheme, as they both need a way to designate that this is a new chip, and yet still place it below the 5950X.
Looking at the second chip, we have the Ryzen 7 5800XT. This is an 8 core part that does improve on its predecessor, offering a 4.8GHz max turbo clock that is 100MHz higher than the Ryzen 7 5800X's. Both chips otherwise share the same characteristics, including 6 MB of L2 cache and 32 MB of L3 cache, and all four of the chips – including the two new XT series and the corresponding X series chips – all come with a 105 Watt TDP.
In terms of motherboard compatibility, all of the AM4 motherboards that currently support the Ryzen 5000 series are also compatible with the Ryzen 5000XT series, although users are likely to need to perform a firmware update to ensure maximum compatibility; they are the same chips, but the microcodes are likely different.
AMD has provided some gaming performance figures comparing the Ryzen 9 5900XT to Intel's 13th Gen Core i7-13700K. It does offer very modest yet marginal gains in games by up to 4%; it's not mind-blowing, but the price could be the decisive factor here.
Regarding price, AMD hasn't disclosed anything official yet ahead of the expected launch of the Ryzen 5000XT series chips in July. It's hard to make a case for a pair of chips to be considered a fully-fledged series, but it does open up the doors for AMD to perhaps launch more 5000XT series chips in the future.
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from Computer Weekly:
A former student at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) says he was hauled over the coals by the college for having acted responsibly and "with integrity" in reporting a security blunder that left sensitive information about students exposed. Bartek Wytrzyszczewski faced misconduct proceedings after alerting the college to a data breach exposing sensitive information on hundreds of past and present ICCA students...
The ICCA, which offers training to future barristers, informed data protection regulator the Information Commissioner's Office of a breach "experienced" in August 2023 after Wytrzyszczewski alerted the college that sensitive files on nearly 800 students were accessible to other college users via the ICCA's web portal. The breach saw personal data such as email addresses, phone numbers and academic information — including exam marks and previous institutions attended — accessible to students at the college. Students using the ICCA's web portal were also able to access ID photos, as well as student ID numbers and sensitive data, such as health records, visa status and information as to whether they were pregnant or had children...
After the college secured a written undertaking from Wytrzyszczewski not to disclose any of the information he had discovered, it launched misconduct proceedings against him. He had stumbled across the files in error, he said, and viewed a significant number to ensure he could report their contents with accuracy.
"The panel cleared Wytrzyszczewski and found it had no jurisdiction to hear the matter," according to the article.
But he "said the experience caused him to unenroll from the ICCA's course and restart his training at another provider."
En première instance, la justice avait notamment condamné Ziad Takieddine, Nicolas Bazire et Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres pour avoir participé à un système de rétrocommissions ayant permis le financement occulte de la campagne d’Edouard Balladur pour la présidentielle de 1995.
Le lundi, le service Culture du « Monde » propose aux lecteurs de « La Matinale » sa sélection musicale. A l’honneur, cette semaine, The Smashing Pumpkins, sur scène à Paris le 16 juin, pour leur unique date en France.
Lors d’un entretien avec le ministre de la défense israélien, Yoav Gallant, dimanche, le chef de la diplomatie américaine, Antony Blinken, a salué la volonté de l’Etat hébreu de conclure un accord avec le mouvement palestinien.
Les chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de l’UE, qui composent le Conseil européen, sont en majorité conservateurs. Mais la plupart des exécutifs sont en fait le fruit d’une alliance entre divers partis, avec une place croissante occupée par l’extrême droite.
Plusieurs personnes ont été frappées et interpellées lors des semaines de protestation contre une loi controversée sur l’influence étrangère, que le Parlement a définitivement adoptée malgré le veto de la présidente géorgienne.
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