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If you're a budding young tech enthusiast or simply a casual PC purchaser, you may have seen "cache" listed in the specifications for this or that processor and wondered what exactly that is. It's been a major marketing point for CPUs for decades, and recently it has even become a matter of discussion for...
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AMD's current-generation client processors can be broadly divided into two groups: chiplet CPUs and monolithic APUs. Currently, both have Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA graphics, but the integrated GPUs on the chiplet processors (like the Ryzen 9 7950X3D) are downright puny, while the integrated GPU on the monolithic parts (such as the Ryzen 7 8700G)
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AMD currently sells processors utilizing "standard" and "dense" (or "compact") cores, including some chips that have both. The "dense" cores are indicated with a "c" at the end, like "Zen 4c", and they have all the same capabilities as the standard cores, but typically run lower clocks because the tight spacing makes...
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If you're building a gaming PC from the ground up, there's a strong chance you have AMD's Ryzen processors with 3D V-cache on your radar. And if not, you shouldthe added L3 cache that's bolted on has a measurable effect on gaming performance. Additionally, the latest generation models based on Zen 4 have all come down...
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Popular German overclocker der8auer delided a Ryzen 7 8700G to see what untapped performance could be squeezed out of AMDs latest Zen 4 APU. He found that delidding the chip and replacing the stock thermal interface material with better alternatives resulted in significantly better thermals, and was able to overclock...
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Back in 2021 during the major worldwide silicon shortage, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a $3.5-billion dollar investment into its facilities in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. That expansion, resulting in the reopening of the "cutting-edge factory" known as Fab 9, is now complete. In a statement to the media, Intel's EVP...
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A recent update to Intel's Software Development Emulator may have inadvertently revealed that the company's upcoming Granite Rapids server CPU comes with 480MB of L3 cache, as spotted by @InstLatX64 on X. 480MB of L3 cache would be by far the most any Intel CPU has ever had, even beating out the 320MB that Emerald...
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AMD's next desktop processor release will be based on the Hawk Point silicon originally intended for mobile machines including laptops, tablets, and handheld gaming consoles. The Ryzen 8000G family, despite the incremented model number, is still based on the Zen 4 CPU architecture, just with the addition of RDNA3...
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Like all modern processors, AMD's Ryzen chips require microcode updates at boot to do their thing. These microcode updates come from AMD as part of its AGESA firmware that contains System Management Unit (SMU) configurations for each type of processor supported by that particular mainboard. Right now, all AMD Socket...
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Storage devices have gotten really fast lately, with the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs getting over 14GB/s in reads and writes, but that's nothing compared to a Ryzen CPU with 3D V-Cache. Tested by hardware enthusiast and engineer Nemez all the way back in February, a Ryzen 7 5800X3D was able to hit 183GB/s and 175GB/s in...
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Meteor Lake, the first-generation "Core Ultra" processors, will be Intel's first "disaggregated" or chiplet-based CPUs. The launch of these important chips is less than a month away, and Intel is continuing to drip-feed details to the press and the public. The latest news comes from a video posted to the "Intel...
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Intel's first-generation chiplet processors, code-named Meteor Lake, will include an entire chiplet (or "tile") dedicated to graphics. Intel has made some big promises about the graphics horsepower of its Meteor Lake processors. Today we've seen the first GPU benchmark of any kind for Meteor Lake, and...
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At last week's Intel Innovation Taipei 2023 Technology Forum, CEO Pat Gelsinger revealed the company's goal to ship at least 100 million NPU-enabled PCs with on-device AI acceleration by 2025. Gelsinger, which has lead Intel since early 2021, has overseen a radical transformation of Intel's business, and AI is one of...
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Most of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8000 series processors will be based on the company's next-generation Zen 5 processor architecture, and that's a big deal because by all accounts, Zen 5 is going to be a major redesign of the Zen CPU core. Earlier leaks have put Zen 5 down for a 10-15% IPC increase, but the most recent...
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If you're a regular reader of HotHardware, then you are assuredly aware that Intel's next-generation Meteor Lake processors are coming, along with a massive overhaul of the company's branding. The new chiplet-based CPUs will reset Intel's generation counter and be known as the first-generation "Core Ultra"...
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The launch of the Ryzen 3000 series in 2019 led not just to a dramatic rise in the performance of AMD CPUs, but also temperatures. Since then, it hasn't gotten any betterthe latest Ryzen 7000 series has even pushed the normal operating temperature to 95C, so that the flagship Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X could run at full...
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Long-lived system information and benchmark app AIDA64 just received a beta update featuring a plethora of new hardware support, ranging from new GPUs, motherboard sensors, and CPUs. One of the most noteworthy additions in the patch is preliminary support for Intel's future CPU lineup codenamed Panther Lake.
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Historically, the socketed desktop AMD Ryzen processors have come in two basic forms: your standard CPUs that typically didn't have graphics until the most recent Ryzen generation, and then your "APUs", or processors with powerful graphics built-in. The Ryzen APUs from the 3000 and 5000 series were also monolithic...
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Oh look, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has baked an all-new single board computer (SBC) to serve as its flagship dish for hobbyists, tinkerers, and modders, and it looks absolutely enticing. Scheduled to release next month, the Raspberry Pi 5 is the first in its rank to feature silicon designed in-housenamely, the...
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You probably already know that AMD's most recent Radeon GPUs are created using chiplets: a single GCD for graphics and compute, and then between three and six MCDs for memory access and caching. Intel hasn't released any consumer GPUs using chiplets yet, but its Datacenter GPU Maxthat's the part formerly...
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If you read that headline and aren't suitably impressed, let us elaborate. Intel's next launch, looming on the horizon, will be the company's first chiplet-based (or tile-based) processors, codenamed Meteor Lake. Those chips are coming along with an extensive re-branding effort, at least for Intel's mobile...
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A new leak has revealed that NVIDIAs future RTX-50 series graphics cards, more specifically the RTX 5090, could receive as much as a 170% performance increase over its RTX 40-series predecessor. The leak highlights key performance increases in several vital areas of NVIDIAs next-generation GPU architecture, including...
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