When AMD announced its Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors in August, it announced a peak clock rate of 5.7 GHz for the top-end, 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X model. That CPU is expected to boost to 5.85 GHz ...

Many of the metrics that companies currently use to determine and market their products' performance have become outmoded and need a new approach. Measurements commonly assigned to system ...

When you're comparing two of the best CPUs, the first spec that comes to mind is clock speed. It quite literally represents how fast the CPU can churn through clock cycles, and naturally, you'd assume ...

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Sometimes cultures collide. Microprocessor design has always emphasized clock frequency, hand design and careful tuning at the circuit level. SoC design emphasizes floor planning, synthesized blocks ...

Competition is a good thing, especially when it results in healthy back-and-forth between the competitors. AMD and Intel are duking it out in the CPU space once again, and given that gaming is one of ...

ASUS has unveiled the new TUF Gaming A14, a compact 14-inch gaming laptop powered by AMD’s latest Ryzen AI 7 350 processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU. Weighing just 1.46kg and measuring ...

Navya Pramod, a systems engineer in Intel’s overclocking lab in Hillsboro, Oregon, pours liquid nitrogen to cool down a 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K processor during an overclocking demonstration in ...

Rumors have been spreading for months of a refreshed Intel CPU lineup based on its most recent Arrow Lake series. Initially it was believed these chips would bring some big upgrades to its beleaguered ...

Every couple of years, a new generation of computer processors is launched. For a long time, CPUs seemed to stick to the same level of power, whereas GPUs only increased by a relatively small amount.