AMD Threadripper Pro has 64 cores, 128 PCIe lanes and 8-channel memory support
AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs are coming to take down Intel’s Xeon workstation chips, offering up to 64 cores, 128 threads, 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4, and up to 2TB of RAM. […]
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AMD CEO Lisa Su talks: Chip shortages, GPU prices, more cores, Apple M1, and tariffs
If you’re still smarting from the inability to buy AMD’s fantastic Ryzen 5000 CPUs and Radeon RX 6000 GPUs many months after their release, CEO Lisa Su feels your pain but says […]
AMD’s new Ryzen 5000G chips wield Radeon graphics and double the cores
AMD’s modern Ryzen APUs with integrated Radeon graphics have been a big hit with budget PC builders since their arrival, and should be in hot demand given the untenable state of today’s […]
Fixed: AMD driver helps Windows 11 find Ryzen’s best CPU cores
AMD posted a chipset software update Friday morning that fixes problems with Windows 11 not recognizing the best Ryzen CPU core to run on. It’s not the only fix you’ll need to […]
Processor cores and laptop performance: What you need to know
The laptops hitting store shelves in 2022 will have a lot of cores. Intel’s 12th-gen Core processors for mobile, revealed at CES 2022 and starting to hit the streets now, pack up […]
How many CPU cores do you have? How to check
At some point, everyone learns that a CPU has a variable number of cores inside, and that number influences its performance. The next natural impulse is to find out how many cores […]
Intel’s 12th-gen Core HX CPUs push laptops to 16 cores
Intel announced the 12th-gen “Alder Lake-HX” (12th-gen Core HX) processor series, splitting the difference between an extreme gaming processor and one designed for workstations and content creation. The flagship, the Core i9-12950HX, […]
Steam survey: For CPU cores, 6 is the new 4
Valve uses anonymized data from Steam players to publish a report on the evolving state of PC hardware every month. And there’s an interesting trend emerging, beyond the general slide towards newer […]
Intel 13th-gen Core CPUs unleashed: more cores, faster speeds
Intel kicked off its 13th-gen Core (“Raptor Lake”) generation today with six new processors that executives claim offer the “world’s best gaming experience” for enthusiasts, with up to 24 percent performance improvement […]
What do the cores in hybrid CPUs actually do? Ian Cutress explains
Today’s high-end CPUs are all about cores, cores, and more cores. For example, the brand new Core i9-13900K has twenty-four of them. On paper that sounds like it’s better than the top-end […]
