Category - CPU

Rumor: Intel's 10nm Willow Cove CPU is supposed to bring 25% IPC increase compared to Skylake CPUs, Golden Cove 50% and Ocean Cove in 7nm even a full 80%

As always, the following is to be enjoyed with caution, but for the sake of completeness it should not be forgotten. Intel's 14nm Skylake architecture has now reached a peak with Comet Lake CPUs, requiring Intel to focus on the next-generation cores that will be deployed in upcoming desktop and mobile CPUs. Skylake is now a true generational [...]


Intel's Xe DG1 GPU in the 3DMark benchmark – faster than all integrated GPUs, but slower than the entry level cards from AMD and Nvidia

Intel's first discrete graphics card with the Xe DG1 GPU was tested in the 3DMark benchmark and discovered by Von TUM_APISAK in the Firestrike benchmark. Here, the Xe DG1 shows a performance that surpasses all existing integrated GPUs, while it can, at least to some extent, match the discrete entry level cards of the competition. No more, but [...]


Intel's 10 nm Tiger Lake-U CPU shows itself in the NUC 11 Extreme with up to 4.4 GHz boost and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1660 Ti as 80W notebook graphics also

Intel's Phantom Canyon NUC 11 Extreme, which will use the next generation of next-generation 10nm Tiger Lake CPUs, has now been sighted in 3DMark for the first time and Rogame's result has been released on Hardware Leaks. This news not only reveals the specifications, but also the performance values that one could expect from this small [...]


Is the Matisse 2.0 Refresh a Renoir APU with a disabled integrated graphics unit? Search for clues and new details!

There is currently a lot of movement in the information jungle and so this week a lot of things were buzzing through the air like Matisse 2.0, Refresh, answer to Intel’s Comet-Lake-S, Ryzen 7 3750X and 3850X or 3700XT to 3900XT. First of all I deliberately kept out of it and rather asked questions, collected my own appetizers and then tried [...]


AMD's Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' desktop CPUs with 8 cores and SMT with up to 4.0 GHz clock speed leaked and benchmarked – launch as early as July?

AMD's next big CPU introduction for the desktop segment will be the Zen 2-based Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU line. What makes these CPUs really interesting now is the fact that they should provide a good balance of graphics and processor cores in the same housing, enabling low-cost PC builds that are able to play in different applications [...]


Why manufacturers are struggling with AMD notebooks, why AMD likes to trip itself up and why the blue conspiracy is not a conspiracy at all | Search for answers

I just had to write down the following now, because I neither like the usual conspiracy theories about alleged constraints (although Intel has provided enough reasons for this in the past), nor do I find many forum discussions fair, which once again show that among many forists there seem to be more experts than capable engineers in the [...]


Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300 X – AMD expands the 3. Generation of the Ryzen desktop processor family for the mainstream

According to AMD, the new AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X offer twice as many multitasking capabilities as previous generations with four cores and eight threads, opening up completely new perspectives in Mainsteram. At the same time, the new B550 chipset for the AM4 socket now also offers the bandwidth advantages of the PCIe 4.0 on cheaper mainstream [...]