Processors
Interview: A Short History of AMD During K6 and K7 Days
Kevin Krewell, an industry analyst and former AMD employee, joins Josh Walrath to discuss their internal and external observations of the release of AMD's most important processor architecture, which cemented its place…
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Will Rome Burn Through Your HVAC Budget?
In their latest deep dive into the EPYC family of processors Phoronix took a look at how much it takes to cool the first Naples based EPYC 7351P, 7401P, 7551, and 7601…
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AMD’s Ryzen-Powered Mini PC Initiative: Small Form-Factor Infusion
AMD has announced something of interest to anyone who has been hoping for more Ryzen mini PC options, as they reveal the "open ecosystem for OEMs to create and customize high performance…
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Intel Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition Processor Review
This review should be easy. On the surface the new Core X-Series launch seems like more of a price cut than anything, with some higher boost clocks and faster memory support (up…
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A Tale of Two Chips; AMD’s Story
Meet the two members of the third generation of Threadripper, the 3960X and 3970X. At $1400 and $2000 respectively, we are seeing a complete reversal of the CPU market, it is now…
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A Tale Of Two Chips; Intel’s Story
The Core i9-10980XE has arrived, with a change in price as well as performance. For many knocking around $1000 off the historic price for this level of processor is the biggest and…
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Centaur Announces SoC with New x86 CPU Core and Integrated AI Coprocessor
Austin, Texas based Centaur Technology (which is a subsidiary of VIA Technologies) has announced a new x86 processor that they claim to be "the industry’s first high-performance x86 SoC with...
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The Ryzen 9 3950X Marks The Spot
It has arrived and the wait was worth it. The R9 3950X offers the best of Ryzen and Threadripper both in a very attractively priced HEDT processor. There is no guarantee it…
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AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Processors
AMD has officially unveiled their 3rd Gen Threadripper family with this morning's announcement of the 24-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, coming November 25. If...
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The Cadence Of AMD’s Releases Are Ryzen Fast!
It will be interesting to see if AMD's X570 chipset will handle four generations of Ryzen chips, for Dr. Su spilled the beans on the AMD RYZEN 4000 series in their…
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Intel Core i9-9900KS Review Part One: The 5 GHz Powerhouse Fights for the Desktop Crown
With the launch of the Core i9-9900KS Intel is vying for the desktop performance lead, creating as they have a special edition, specially-binned version of their 8-core, 16-thread Core i9-9900K...
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Just How Special Is The Intel i9-9900KS?
Today we get a look at the Core i9-9900KS, a special release of the best of the i9-9900K processors made all of which operate 300MHz higher than your usual top end Coffee…
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Intel Announces Pricing and Availability of the 5.0 GHz Core i9-9900KS Processor
Intel has made their formal announcement - including pricing and availability - of the new Core i9-9900KS Special Edition; the 5.0 GHz all-core turbo version of the Core i9-9900K first announced
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Microsoft Updates Supported CPU Page for Windows 10 1909
There is a page on the Hardware Dev Center where Microsoft outlines the CPUs that are supported for any given Windows release. The document is a bit confusing for end-users...
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Ryzen 9 3950X 24 Percent Faster Than i9-10980XE in Leaked 3DMark Benchmark
A new leak today from the well-connected industry leaker APISAK teases good news for AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 3950X, at least in comparison to Intel’s Cascade Lake-X platform. Two...
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If You’re Coming From San Francisco, And Wearing A Bulldozer In Your Hair ..
The release of AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs a handful of years ago upset a group of people who felt that quad-core, dual thread CPUs were not actually octa-core processors...
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Is Intel Really Cancelling 10nm Desktop Processors?
This morning saw some interesting news (based on either rumors or actual inside information) about none other than Intel and their upcoming desktop CPU plans, and it's pretty wild. It began with…
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Intel Announces Xeon W-2200 and Core X-Series; Core-S Desktop Price Drop
Intel has announced their Xeon W-2200 lineup today, complimenting the early announcement of 10th Gen Core X-Series HEDT processors. For traditional desktop users there is also new pricing for Core-S...
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