If you're a budding young tech enthusiast or simply a casual PC purchaser, you may have seen "cache" listed in the specifications for this or that processor and wondered what exactly that is. It's ...

AMD’s 7800X3D and 7950X3D hold the top spot in CPUs for gaming, not because they have the most cores or the highest clock speeds, but because they have the most cache. But what is CPU cache, anyway?

Intel has introduced Continuous Profiler, an open-source optimization tool developed by Intel Granulate, aimed at improving CPU performance by identifying inefficiencies in real-time. The tool is ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you are a HotHardware reader, there's a pretty good chance I don't need to tell you that for a few generations, AMD has been leading Intel in PC gaming CPU performance. Well, according to Intel's ...