Moving on to Geekbench, the 9950X3D2 showcased a single-core score of 3,456, the highest recorded in its category, alongside a multi-core score of 21,062. These benchmarks suggest that the Ryzen 9 ...

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 ...

As it revealed the new iPad Air during its Time Flies event, Apple took the wraps off its latest mobile system-on-chip, the A14 Bionic. Built with a bleeding-edge 5-nanometer manufacturing process, it ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is aiming to fix AMD performance issues this month Microsoft is aiming to fix AMD performance issues this month is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

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 ...