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's Pentium 4 670: Just Another Speed Bump
Intel has launched another Pentium 4 6xx speed grade; this time, hitting 3.8 GHz. We run a few of our standard tests to find out how the latest processor...
33 by Derek Wilson on 5/26/2005The Quest for More Processing Power, Part Three: "Multi core of Intel and AMD compared"
How do the current dual cores of Intel and AMD compare? What are the architectural differences of the current cores? Can we quantify these differences? What will be the...
28 by Johan De Gelas on 5/18/2005Processor Obfuscation and You: An Update on AMD and Intel CPUs
Both AMD and Intel have quite a few shipping processor models on the market right now. In order to clear up the confusion, we decided that it was...
55 by Kristopher Kubicki & Jarred Walton on 5/17/2005Far Cry AMD64 Edition - A First Look at 64-bit Gaming
We've been very disappointed by the lack of 64-bit desktop applications for Microsoft's new x64 Edition OS. After years of campaigning for 64-bit games, AMD and Ubisoft unveiled...
59 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/10/2005AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance Preview
Weeks ahead of schedule, AMD sent us their first Athlon 64 X2 dual core desktop CPUs to put through our benchmarking tests. Although they still won't be out...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/9/2005AMD's dual core Opteron & Athlon 64 X2 - Server/Desktop Performance Preview
It's not always best to be first to release something, and AMD shows Intel exactly why with their comprehensive dual core product line. We benchmark both the new...
144 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 4/21/2005AMD's Sempron 3300+: 90nm Budget Computing
AMD's first Socket-754 Sempron in almost a year offers a 200MHz increase in clock speed, but half the cache of last year's model. We look at the mixed...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/18/2005Dual Core Intel Platform Shootout - NVIDIA nForce4 vs. Intel 955X
Now that there's at least one reason to look at Intel CPUs, what's the best chipset for dual core processors? We compare NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI Intel Edition...
96 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/14/2005Intel Dual Core Performance Preview Part II: A Deeper Look
This time around we look at the more affordable Pentium D 2.8GHz as well as the impacts of hard drives on multitasking performance, including in games.
106 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/6/2005Intel Dual Core Performance Preview Part I: First Encounter
We bring you the first real world performance benchmarks and impressions of Intel's upcoming desktop dual core processors.
142 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/4/2005Interview with AMD's Fred Weber - The Future of AMD Microprocessors
Fred gives us a candid look at everything from the successor to Athlon 64 to Cell.
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2005Intel's Pentium M Desktop Part II: ASUS' Pentium M to Pentium 4 Socket Adapter
In our first article, the Pentium M wasn't very competitive on the desktop. But what about when paired with a desktop chipset? ASUS shows us how...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/24/2005Understanding the Cell Microprocessor
Cutting through the hype and understanding the technology, that's what this article is all about. What's the big deal about Cell and does it have a future? We tell...
70 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/17/2005The Quest for More Processing Power, Part Two: "Multi-core and multi-threaded gaming"
As we enter an era of increasingly multithreaded, multi-core CPUs, who will benefit the most from it? What is the use for all this CPU power? Will dual core...
49 by Johan De Gelas on 3/14/2005A Closer Look At PhysX: Our Take On The PPU
Can AGEIA do for physics what the GPU did for graphics? The PhysX PPU is their upcoming product poised to bring physics processing add-in cards to the PC. What's...
70 by Derek Wilson on 3/11/2005AMD Unveils Turion 64 Mobile Technology: A Rebranded Mobile Athlon 64
AMD finally provided more details about their new Turion 64 Mobile Technology - as we originally guessed, it's basically a new name for the 90nm Mobile Athlon 64.
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/10/2005Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance
With the introduction of its newest Pentium 4 revision, Intel has doubled the L2 cache size, added EIST and EM64T, and taken away the bite of the Extreme Edition...
71 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 2/21/2005AMD K8 E4 Stepping: SSE3 Performance
The Revision E core AMD launched with the new Opteron 252 includes SSE3 along with the 1GHz coherent HT link, 90nm fabrication, and organic packaging.
48 by Derek Wilson on 2/17/2005The Quest for More Processing Power, Part One: "Is the single core CPU doomed?"
Why did Prescott really fail? Will Multi-Core CPUs really be an answer to our performance prayers? What will future CPU architectures bring? If you seek the answers, join us...
65 by Johan De Gelas on 2/8/2005Intel's Pentium M on the Desktop - A Viable Alternative?
Although many want to declare it the death of Net Burst, is the Pentium M truly suited for a high performance desktop?
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2005
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