CPUs
As Qualcomm prepares for the mid-year launch of their forthcoming Snapdragon X SoCs for PCs, and the eagerly anticipated Oryon CPU cores within, the company is finally shoring up their official product plans, and releasing some additional technical details in the process. Thus far the company has been demonstrating their Snapdragon X Elite SoC in its highest-performing, fully-enabled configuration. But the retail Snapdragon X Elite will not be a single part; instead, Qualcomm is preparing a whole range of chip configurations for various price/performance tiers in the market. Altogether, there will be 3 Snapdragon X Elite SKUs that differ in CPU and GPU performance. As well, the company is introducing a second Snapdragon X tier, Snapdragon X Plus, for those SKUs positioned below the Elite...
The Haswell Ultrabook Review: Core i7-4500U Tested
With Haswell we got a staggered launch, with only some parts ready to go immediately. Interestingly enough, it’s the high-end Haswell desktop parts that are most ready at this...
89 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/9/2013
AMD's Richland vs. Intel's Haswell GPU on the Desktop: Radeon HD 8670D vs. Intel HD 4600
The run up to Computex has been insane. Kabini, Haswell and Iris hit us back to back to back, not to mention all of the travel before receiving those...
102 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2013
AMD Continues Assembling Dream Team: Sean Pelletier from NVIDIA Tech Marketing to Join, Update: He's back at NVIDIA
Last year AMD was hemorrhaging talent. While we don't have a good indication of the extent of the talent exodus, Qualcomm seemed to benefit quite a bit from the...
61 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/5/2013
AMD Richland Desktop APUs Now Available
We’ve all known for a while that AMD would be releasing desktop Richland SKUs, and there have been a few leaks—including the APUs going up for sale at Newegg...
42 by Jarred Walton on 6/5/2013
Intel Announces Thunderbolt 2 at Computex: 20Gbps Bi-Directional Bandwidth per Channel
Earlier this year Intel revealed some details about Falcon Ridge, its 2014 Thunderbolt controller. Today it went a little further and gave the updated Thunderbolt spec a new name...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2013
Choosing a Gaming CPU at 1440p: Adding in Haswell
A few weeks ago we released our first set of results to aid readers in deciding what CPU they may want for a new single or multi-GPU build. ...
116 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2013
Introducing the Dual-Core Haswell SKUs
Introducing the Dual-Core Haswell SKUs On Saturday Intel lifted the embargo on information related to their quad-core Haswell processors, and we’ve been busy posting all sorts of details over the...
50 by Jarred Walton on 6/4/2013
ARM Cortex A12: Between Cortex A9 and A15 in Power & Perf, Sampling in Late 2014
We’ve talked about the hole in ARM’s product lineup for quite a while now. The Cortex A9 is too slow to compete with the likes of Intel’s Atom and...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2013
Intel's Haswell - An HTPC Perspective: Media Playback, 4K and QuickSync Evaluated
Over the last two years, the launch of every major desktop CPU family from both AMD and Intel has been accompanied by a dedicated HTPC-oriented article. This coverage has...
95 by Ganesh T S on 6/2/2013
Exploring the Floating Point Performance of Modern ARM Processors
As a programmer who wants to write decent performing code, I am very interested in understanding the architectures of CPUs and GPUs. However, unlike desktop and server CPUs, mobile...
39 by Rahul Garg on 6/2/2013
Hit the Road, Jack: Intel’s Mobile Quad-Core Haswell SKUs
For those who are just looking for information on the various processor models with their associated features, we wanted to put together a short list of all the parts...
34 by Jarred Walton on 6/1/2013
Intel Iris Pro 5200 Graphics Review: Core i7-4950HQ Tested
We review what's quite possibly the most exciting Haswell SKU available at launch: the Core i7-4950HQ equipped with Intel's new Iris Pro 5200 graphics.
177 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2013
Intel’s Haswell: Quad-Core Desktop Processor SKUs
Intel’s Haswell is here, or at least the first salvo of quad-core parts has arrived. Just like we saw with Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, Intel will be releasing...
25 by Jarred Walton on 6/1/2013
The Haswell Review: Intel Core i7-4770K & i5-4670K Tested
This is a very volatile time for Intel. In an ARM-less vacuum, Intel’s Haswell architecture would likely be the most amazing thing to happen to the tech industry in...
211 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2013
AMD Opteron X1150 & X2150 "Kyoto": Kabini Heads to Servers
Last week AMD launched its Kabini APU for clients, a quad-core Jaguar based SoC with GCN graphics aimed at entry-level and mainstream ultraportable notebooks. In our review we found...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/29/2013
The Kabini Deal: Can AMD Improve the Quality of Mainstream PCs with Its Latest APU?
There are two non-negotiables in building a PC these days: the cost of Intel silicon and the cost of the Windows license. You can play with everything else but...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/24/2013
A Closer Look at the Kabini Die
With our review done I did the one thing I've been keeping myself from doing for the past week: I pulled the heatsink off my Kabini review notebook and...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/23/2013
The AMD Kabini Review: A4-5000 APU Tested
How does Kabini perform compared to existing hardware? Armed with a prototype laptop sporting AMD’s latest APU, we put it through an extensive suite of benchmarks and see what’s...
131 by Jarred Walton on 5/23/2013
AMD’s Jaguar Architecture: The CPU Powering Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Kabini & Temash
Microprocessor architectures these days are largely limited, and thus defined, by power consumption. When it comes to designing an architecture around a power envelope the rule of thumb is...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/23/2013
Choosing a Gaming CPU: Single + Multi-GPU at 1440p, April 2013
One question when building or upgrading a gaming system is of which CPU to choose - does it matter if I have a quad core from Intel, or a...
254 by Ian Cutress on 5/8/2013
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