Processors
AMD Announces Faster EPYC 7H12 Processor Aimed at HPC
AMD unleashed a new flagship EPYC “Rome” server processor at its European launch event in Rome, Italy earlier this week. The new AMD EPYC 7H12 is a 64 core (128...
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Whiskey Lake vs. Ice Lake Benchmarks: Testing Intel’s Big Leap in Ultraportable Graphics
In the lead up to the launch of its new Ice Lake platform, Intel frequently touted the improved “Gen11” integrated graphics that would be making their debut in...
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64-Core EPYC 7742 First to Encode 8K HEVC In Real-Time
AMD’s latest EPYC processors have provided yet another performance win for the company, this time achieving the honor of the first CPU able to encode 8K HEVC video in real time.As…
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Take A Chance On AGESA
If you are curious how the new ABBA AGESA update changes the performance of the Ryzen 9 3900X you have come to the right post. This new version looks to resolve the…
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AMD Announces Ryzen BIOS Updates for Boost and Idle, New SDK
AMD has updated the community on the progress of their upcoming changes to Ryzen 3000 Series idle and boost behavior, with another new AGESA version (1.0.0.3ABBA) coming soon from motherboard vendors....
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Intel Announces i9-9900KS for October, Teases Cascade Lake-X Price-to-Performance Jump
During a press briefing Wednesday at IFA in Berlin, Intel provided details about two of its impending processor launches, both confirming the launch timeframe of its new flagship i9-9900KS desktop processor as…
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Geekbench 5 Benchmark Comparison Featuring Ice Lake
Just hours after we published our initial Ice Lake benchmarks comparing the i7-1065G7 to the Ryzen 7 3700U – benchmarks which included Geekbench 4 results – Primate...
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Ice Lake Benchmarks: i7-1065G7 vs. Ryzen 7 3700U
Intel’s 10nm-based 10th-gen “Ice Lake” mobile processors are finally starting to hit the market. The latest Dell XPS 13 2-in-1, one of the first systems that Intel demoed for the...
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Review: Gaming Sweet Spot?
Without a doubt the arrival of AMD’s highly anticipated Zen 2 processors has been a success, with availability the only thing really hampering the early adoption of these Ryzen processors - at…
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Sibling Rivalry; Ryzen 3700X And 3800X
TechSpot have located the rare Ryzen 7 3800X and tested it against the Ryzen 7 3700X to find out what really distinguishes these two chips apart from the model number. On paper…
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Intel Comet Lake Processor Lineup Launches: Includes First 6-Core U-Series Part
Intel officially launched 10nm "Ice Lake" mobile processors on August 1st, and today they are adding eight new 14nm "Comet Lake" SKUs to the 10th Gen lineup slated to ship...
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Many Dies But Still Not Dead: TSMC’s Huge Interposer
TSMC published a blog post last Wednesday that is called, “Moore’s Law is not Dead”. First, they reiterate that Moore’s Law is about density, not performance. It used to be...
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Ryzen 9 3900X Is RAM Tough!
We've said it before and we will say it again, the Ryzen architecture will reward you if you match it with some fast, tight DDR4. Many memory reviews show tiny increases in…
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Intel Officially Launches 10nm Ice Lake Processors
Intel introduced their 10th Gen Core processors at the end of May, and now they are officially being launched. While we won't have parts in hand for some time we do…
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The New 1.07.29 X570 Chipset Driver
AMD have just released a new X570 driver version, 1.07.29, to address concerns some expressed about the processors using too many cores, at high clock-speeds, and voltages when the user...
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Vanilla Ice Lake Benchmarks, Plus Dr. Su Drops A New Hit
Intel finally cracked the last 10nm of ice hiding the performance of the Core i7-1065G7, the replacement for their previous generation of mobile processors, Whiskey Lake. At an event in Santa Clara,…
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A Newly BIOSed Look At The Ryzen 9 3900X
The FPS Review is revisiting the Ryzen 9 3900X on their MSI MEG Godlike motherboard, now that they have the v1.3 UEFI BIOS with uses AGESA 1.0.0.3 patch AB. As...
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AMD’s Chiplet Design Is The New Ryzen Star
Not content to release only a 7nm GPU, 7/7 also saw the arrival of AMD's 7nm Zen 2 CPUs with the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X being the most reviewed…
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