Saying that it has been a busy launch season for AMD is an incredible understatement. Not only did we see the release of the high powered, high performing Ryzen 7000X Series, but we also got a full ...

To make the most of AMD's 3D V-Cache technology, you'll need to play some games that can fully leverage the additional cache and other improvements over standard AMD Ryzen CPUs. I've been messing ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Ahead of AMD’s Zen launch in early 2017, enthusiasts were clamoring for exciting progress in the desktop CPU market. While we saw GPUs gain tremendously from one generation to the next, every CPU ...

As discussed in part one, one of the reasons cache coherency is becoming more important is the shared common memory resource in designs today. Various agents in the design want to access the data the ...

In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performance. To do that, we used three Intel Core processors and compared their core scaling performance, ...

In the early days of computing, everything ran quite a bit slower than what we see today. This was not only because the computers' central processing units – CPUs – were slow, but also because ...

Cache partitioning makes it easier to bound and control interference patterns by reducing L2 cache contention, reducing WCET and increasing CPU utilization. By setting aside dedicated sections of the ...

As part of its annual IP mobile platform announcement, Arm introduced a new initiative called Cortex-X Custom (CXC) program and the first product from the program, the Cortex-X1 CPU cores. The goal of ...

After looking at the last few generations of Intel and AMD CPUs separately, here's our final installment in the gaming performance progress series. In this article we'll be comparing a decade of AMD ...