If you’re an irrepressible tech newshound, you might have heard that prices for Intel processors are going up, particularly the Core CPUs that make up the majority of the company’s business. According […]
The PC CPU market set no new records for the second quarter of 2023, a researcher reports — and that’s all for the best. Mercury Research reported that in the first quarter […]
As expected, microcode applied to fix the Intel “Downfall” bug a Google researcher discovered this week can have a severe impact on performance, according to early tests, with the performance hit reaching […]
Intel’s Meteor Lake chip will certainly be used as an engine for specific AI tasks on the PC. But Intel is also applying AI to how the chip operates, too: specifically applying […]
The long-awaited space role-playing game Starfield from Bethesda has been available for download since Tuesday. Many players immediately plunged into the game’s 1,000 explorable planets. Now, however, reports of sudden crashes are […]
A few years ago, “Threadripper” was synonymous with the absolute top end of home-built PCs. The extra sub-brand of Ryzen processors, like “Stingray” to the Corvette, pushed AMD’s hardware to the limit. […]
Intel has now presented its complete portfolio of desktop processors from the Core i-13000 series (Raptor Lake), and the upcoming Core i-14000 series (Raptor Lake Refresh) is expected to release sometime in […]
AMD has presented its complete portfolio of desktop processors from the Ryzen 7000 (“Raphael”) and Ryzen 7000X3D (“Raphael-X”) series and seized the performance crown in several areas. AMD CPUs hold the lead […]
Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation. That’s why nerds are obsessed with them. And not just nerds: […]
For the launch of Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG Starfield, AMD made a customized version of its flagship GPU, the fire-breathing Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Only 500 of these limited edition cards were made, […]
