A white paper from AMD, presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), contained details about the Zen x86 core and the design techniques behind it. Two impressive facts came to light during the session attended by engineers from various chip making firms. Firstly, AMD’s …
PC enthusiasts and gamers are getting pretty stoked up about the upcoming launch of AMD Ryzen processors, scheduled for 2nd March. Yesterday we looked over a leaked product matrix that contained a full range of 17 AMD Ryzen processors, with 8C/16T R7 chips at the high …
For some intrepid enthusiasts, this is the chip from Intel we’ve been waiting for. I foolishly predicted that Intel would never create an overclockable Core i3, because it had the potential to drive sales away from high-margin products. But here we are, Core i3-7350K in hand, …
We’ve been waiting for one of these for a long time. We know that Intel’s Core i3 technology is good for gaming – up until recently, the Haswell-based Core i3 4130 has been at the heart of our budget PC build – but what if we …
If you plan on getting a full-size multimedia/gaming laptop during 2017 and even the first part of 2018, there’s a big chance it will run on an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, and this post will tell you what to expect from this CPU, how it performs …
What is the future of the x86 processor? As discussed recently, we’ve reached a crossroads in CPU technology. The Core i7 7700K is a magnificent piece of technology, but improvements over its predecessor are minimal and it’s safe to say that the real-life application of its …
Kaby Lake is the next generation of CPUs from Intel. Right now, we’re in the Skylake generation. At least most of us are, unless you’re an early adopter of, say, the latest Dell XPS 13. You'll still see quite a few laptops from the previous Broadwell …
The reality of microprocessor design is slowly but surely losing pace against Moore’s Law – and Intel’s new Kaby Lake series of CPUs is a clear example of this. Stuck on the 14nm fabrication process, the latest Core i5s and i7s offer – clock for clock …
Earlier this month we tested graphics performance in Battlefield V covering a massive range of graphics cards at 1080p, 1440p and 4K. We also looked at real-time ray tracing performance. For those tests we used the single player campaign to measure performance as it’s easy to …
Back in the day, a new CPU, be it a refresh or brand new architecture, users have come to expect an increase in both clock speeds, as well as some form of IPC increase. Today, in the era of what I like to call ‘core wars’ …
