19 percent gen-on-gen IPC vs 10th gen desktop CPUs sounds great—but the verdict is out on the importance of the “up to” hedge, or the impact of reduced core count in the i9 CPUs. Intel Intel shows some fairly modest wins over Ryzen 9 5900X in some of its “RUG” workflow tests—but they lean heavily […]
Enlarge Aurich Lawson / Getty Images Over the past 12 months, electronics retailers have been under increased fire and scrutiny for mishandling how they sell brand-new consoles and high-end PC components. This week, online retailer Newegg has moved forward with a new, peculiar system for selling high-demand, low-supply electronics: the Newegg Shuffle. (Or, as the […]
Enlarge AMD As expected, AMD took to the CES stage this week to announce new laptop CPUs. Most of the new Ryzen 5000 mobile family of chips share similarities with the desktop CPUs the company announced a few months ago, and they’ll start shipping with laptops from some of the bigger computer-makers in February. The […]
Intel’s 11th-generation Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will be team blue’s answer to AMD’s Zen 3 chips, and they’re going to be an interesting bridge between technologies as Intel continues to iterate on its 14nm process. They are the follow-up to last year’s 10th-gen Comet Lake chips, which officially debuted in the spring. Rocket Lake has […]
AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs vastly improved performance over Ryzen 1000 and 2000 CPUs when they launched in 2019. Featuring the redesigned Zen 2 architecture, AMD’s then latest foray into its Ryzen platform proved to be more than just a slight generational improvement. AMD promised huge gains over Zen and Zen Plus, as well as over […]
Intel’s focus on AI architecture is so deep that the actual SKU table seemed like little more than an afterthought. Also notice no prices are available. Intel This is the only place you’ll see general-purpose workload performance claims—against five-year-old Intel-only systems, and ignoring Spectre/Meltdown mitigations. Intel There’s no mention of AMD on this or any […]
Enlarge / What if Comet Lake, but longer? This wafer litho image gives us a bird’s eye view of the layout of one of the Comet Lake S-series CPUs, featuring two more cores than prior generations. Intel Corporation So far, 2020 is a tough year for Intel CPU fans—in both senses of the word. The […]
The immediate takeaway on 10th-gen Comet Lake H-series: 45W TDP, four/six/eight cores with hyperthreading, very high turbo clockrates. Intel Corporation You’ll definitely want to pay attention to the asterisk at the end of “fastest mobile processor.” It’s referring to turbo clock speed, not necessarily overall performance. Intel Corporation Intel is leaning very heavily on the […]
After suffering numerous delays and setbacks in its 10nm chip design, Intel finally launched its Ice Lake processors in late 2019. On the desktop side of things, though, 10nm still feels distant. Reporting in late 2019 indicated that the architecture might be skipped on desktop altogether. Intel has since confirmed that 10nm desktop is still […]
This looks like an advertisement for AMD Epyc processors until you get to that bright yellow “solutions available today” box and realize we’re talking about Intel. Intel Corporation Intel is a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium, an open source community. Intel Corporation Intel TSC—currently only applicable to Intel (not third-party) server motherboards—offers an […]
Microsoft’s venerable Windows 2-in-1 tablet marches forward with new features, including a cutting-edge Intel processor, but it could be overshadowed by the much cooler Surface Pro X. October 3, 2019 11:50AM EST October 3, 2019 PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. When […]
Heads up, bargain hunters: Dell has a bunch of XPS 8930 desktops on sale, select AMD Ryzen desktop processors are up to 40 percent off, and the 128GB Samsung EVO Select microSDXC card is down to its lowest price ever at just $ 19. Check out those great deals and more below. Featured Deals Dell […]
The best news about Comet Lake is the high-end 6C/12T i7. Intel Corporation We’d recommend taking the 16% overall performance boost far more seriously than the 41% boost claimed for very specific O365 scenarios. Intel Corporation Get ready for a world of pain trying to figure out whether you’re getting “the good CPU” or not—the […]
Enlarge / This is a 10th-Gen Intel Core processor, code named Ice Lake. Ice Lake uses Intel’s new 10nm process and offers more IPC (Instructions Per Clock) as well as greatly improved integrated graphics as compared to earlier models. Intel Yesterday, Intel launched its new 10nm Ice Lake mobility (read: notebook, ultraportable) processors. The launch […]
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