Items tagged with CPUs
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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There can't really be any doubt at this point: AI is going to change all of our lives, and there's no going back from here. Still, there's quite a bit of debate over exactly how it's going to happen. If you listen to hardware vendors like AMD and Intel, they'll tell you that you absolutely need to upgrade your...
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Do you have a Socket AM4 system, dear reader? If you're reading this, there's a solid chance you've at least had one in the past even if you don't right now. Launched eight-and-a-half years ago, the Socket AM4 platform has been enormously successful for AMD, and it continues to persist into 2024 with new CPU releases...
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in the words of Jon Peddie Research, a market research firm with a pulse on the tech industry (and especially GPUs), it was "another great quarter" for both PC-based GPU and CPU shipments. In more words, JPR reports that the global GPU market reached 76.2 million units last quarter while CPU shipments skyrocketed by...
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There probably won't be much mystery, if at all, regarding the specifications for Intel's upcoming Core i9-14900KS. It's not an official part, mind you, but multiple retail leaks are collectively a pretty strong indication that the hyper-binned slice of 14th Gen silicon is coming. And the latest retail cameo once...
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AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors are vulnerable to some serious security exploits, so you should be quick about slapping the latest system firmware into your board's BIOS. Head to your system vendor or motherboard maker's website to make sure you've got the latest firmware for your Ryzen rig or EPYC server.
AMD has...
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Popular German overclocker der8auer delided a Ryzen 7 8700G to see what untapped performance could be squeezed out of AMD’s 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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It took a minute or two, but x86 processor shipments appear to be recovering from a recent slump. According to data shared with us by Mercury Research, x86 chip shipments increased year-over-year for the first time in 24 months, with both desktop and laptop CPU shipments either growing at or exceeding normal seasonal...
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Geekbench scores for AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 7 8700G have cropped up online, giving us a sneak peek of each new chip's performance. The leaked benchmark scores indicate that AMD’s new Ryzen 8000 APUs will not be much slower than their lower TDP Ryzen 7000 counterparts, despite having a deficit in L3...
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When Intel started selling hybrid processors with two disparate types of cores, its beloved-by-enthusiasts ARK database was updated with the ability to display the core counts separately, and the clock rates of each core type. Given the company's emphasis on high efficiency, Intel's "E-cores" naturally don't clock as...
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Documents leaked by renowned leaker @yuuki_ans on X reveal that early Arrow Lake samples have Hyper Threading disabled by default, which to some has implied that Intel may be looking to launch its first consumer CPUs without support for Hyper Threading since 2006. However, we've read the fine print, and it seems like...
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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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After years of waiting, users on ARM64 versions of Windows 10 and 11 finally have their own version of CPUID's popular application CPU-Z. The new ARM64-based version will enable anyone using an ARM-based Windows machine to view detailed specifications of their CPU, including clock speeds, cache allotments, CPU model...
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Of course, Intel wouldn't be left out of the CES 2024 launch party. Just like last year, the company has a whole plethora of new processors to show off at the Las Vegas expo. The list includes new 14th-gen "non-K" desktop CPUs in both 35W and 65W flavors, the first series of "non-Ultra" Core processors, and Intel's...
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Zen 5 hasn't even arrived yet, but of course AMD is hard at work on designing the next generation after it. According to serial leaker Everest (@Olrak29_ on Twitter), the codename for consumer Zen 6 processors—analogous to "Raphael" for consumer Zen 4 processors and "Granite Ridge" for consumer Zen 5 processors—will...
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Love 'em or hate 'em, Intel's decision to start shipping CPUs with both big and little CPU cores was a major turning point for the industry. Whether you realize it or not, AMD is already doing fundamentally the same thing. The company has several products shipping right now based on its "Phoenix 2" silicon that sports...
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If you're a regular HotHardware reader, we probably don't have to explain to you that Intel's new Core Ultra processors launching today were codenamed Meteor Lake, and that they represent not only Intel's first "disaggregated" consumer CPUs built from disparate tiles, but also the debut of Intel's "Intel 4" process...
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Five benchmarks comparing an upcoming Intel Core Ultra 125H against AMD’s Ryzen 7 7840HS along with Intel’s own current-generation Core i5-13500H popped up on Baidu yesterday. The tests reveal that Intel’s new Meteor Lake processor seemingly isn’t that much faster than the Core i5-13500H it is replacing, and is...
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With Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake-based mobile processors launching soon, various design wins are started to leak. This time, an upcoming Samsung laptop was spotted -- the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra --featuring a Core Ultra 7 155H CPU and GeForce RTX 4050 graphics. Samsung’s new laptop will be the successor to the outgoing...
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Technological autonomy has been a priority for China in recent years, partly because the country can't import cutting-edge chips thanks to US sanctions, and also because being self-sufficient is popular policy. At the forefront of China's native CPU industry is Loongson, which has at last released its much-anticipated...
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Today we've discovered a pretty big leak that, if accurate, reveals most of the pertinent details about AMD's first Socket AM5 "APUs", or desktop processors with powerful integrated graphics. We don't have any way to verify the content of the leak so take this with however many grains of salt that you wish, but the...
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Black Friday might not be here yet, but there are a plethora of good CPU deals already going on. Several of AMD and Intel’s most popular chips, like the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Core i5-13600KF are discounted significantly at the moment, with prices dropping by as much as 20%. Cooler prices have also dropped quite a bit...
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