CPUs

As part of AMD's Q1'2024 earnings announcement this week, the company is offering a brief status update on some of their future products set to launch later this year. Most important among these is an update on their Zen 5 CPU architecture, which is expected to launch for both client and server products later this year. Highlighting their progress so far, AMD is confirming that EPYC "Turin" processors have begun sampling, and that these early runs of AMD's next-gen datacenter chips are meeting the company's expectations. "Looking ahead, we are very excited about our next-gen Turin family of EPYC processors featuring our Zen 5 core," said Lisa Su, chief executive officer of AMD, at the conference call with analysts and investors (via SeekingAlpha). "We are widely...

Intel Developer Forum - Beijing 2007: Penryn and Intel's High End GPU

The first day of IDF Beijing has begun and Intel gave away some more information on Penryn, as well as its first real ATI/NVIDIA competitor.

13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/16/2007

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800: The Fastest Desktop CPU, now with more cores

Intel gave its quad-core Kentsfield a speed bump, meanwhile AMD went through a significant set of price cuts. The landscape has indeed changed.

34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/9/2007

Intel: More Details on Penryn and Nehalem

Today we met with Intel and were given some additional juicy details of what is in store for CPUs due for release during the next year. Think QX6700...

14 by Johan De Gelas on 3/28/2007

EVGA 680i LT SLI: NVIDIA's 680i Cost Reduced

We provide our first impressions of NVIDIA's 680i LT SLI chipset using EVGA's board and wonder if cost reductions are always beneficial.

16 by Gary Key on 3/28/2007

Intel G965: microATX Performance Update

We perform a quick performance comparison of an Intel G965 mATX platform and similar Intel P965 platform.

8 by Gary Key on 3/16/2007

AMD 690G: Performance Review

We compare AMD's new 690G chipset against NVIDIA's GeForce 6150 and Intel's G965 chipsets with some surprising results.

70 by Gary Key on 3/6/2007

Barcelona Architecture: AMD on the Counterattack

After a tremendously successful K8 architecture, AMD lost the performance crown when Intel released Core 2. Details on the upcoming Barcelona architecture are here, but will it be enough...

83 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/1/2007

AMD 690G: Technology Overview

We provide our first impressions of AMD's new integrated graphics chipset before we roll out our performance review.

14 by Derek Wilson and Gary Key on 2/28/2007

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+: Competing with Aggressive Pricing

AMD has lowered its CPU pricing considerably as of late, but is it enough to make up for a 3-year old architecture? Find out as we perform our...

34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2007

The Era of Tera: Intel Reveals more about 80-core CPU

Last year Intel talked about an 80-core Teraflop CPU, today we get many more details on its architecture and its role in the future of many-core CPUs.

25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/11/2007

Intel Demonstrates new 45nm Transistors and Conroe's Successor

What's better than a Conroe? That would be a Penryn. Learn about the transistors that make Penryn so special.

59 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/27/2007

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300: Affordable and Highly Overclockable

Every generation a ridiculously overclockable bargain chip is born, and the Core 2 Duo E4300 is just that chip.

68 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2007

AMD's 65nm Preview Part 2 - The Plot Thickens (Updated with Information from AMD)

We take a closer look at AMD's first 65nm parts, uncovering the roots of its lower performance and poor overclocking. Now updated with an official response from AMD.

52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/21/2006

AMD's 65nm Brisbane Core Previewed: The most energy efficient AMD CPU to date

Intel has had two major advantages over AMD as of late: 65nm and a newer architecture. Today we take a look at AMD's first 65nm offering and see...

63 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/14/2006

AMD's Quad FX: Technically Quad Core

It's four cores spread out across two processors in a $370 motherboard drawing close to 500W of power. How does it stack up to Kentsfield? We'll find...

88 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/30/2006

NVIDIA 680i: The Best Core 2 Chipset?

NVIDIA's answer to the shortcomings of 590 on the Intel platform is the 680i. Is the new NVIDIA chipset all we hoped for?

60 by Gary Key & Wesley Fink on 11/8/2006

Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6700: The Multi-core Era Begins

Today Intel officially launches its first quad core desktop processor: the Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Find out what four cores means for performance, efficiency and the future of...

59 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/2/2006

Intel Core 2 Chipset Power Consumption Shootout

You've got a new low power Core 2 processor but what chipset do you use? Does chipset choice impact power consumption? We find out today

44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/12/2006

ASUS P5B-E: P965 stepping C1 versus C2, Round One

Our journey into finding the claimed C2 performance improvements yields some surprising results.

27 by Gary Key on 10/4/2006

Quad Cores: Intel Kentsfield Preview

Intel gave members of the press an opportunity to run some preliminary benchmarks on their quad-core Kentsfield processor at the Fall 2006 Intel Developer's Forum. Here's a chance...

34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/28/2006

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