Rumors dropped this week about two new future AMD and Intel CPUs with much higher quantities of L3 cache than we've seen in consumer chips. Although they might be good for gaming, these chips are ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D set new benchmarks in gaming performance with its impressive 96 MB L3 V-Cache. But how does memory latency factor into this powerhouse's performance? Our latest analysis dives ...

AMD's "X3D" series boasts overwhelming acclaim and popularity in the custom PC and gaming PC community.Among them, the "Ryzen ...

The Intel Nova Lake leaks are coming thick and fast today. Earlier, Nick reported on the apparently outsized power requirements of the dual-CPU-die variant of Nova Lake with 52 cores. Now come claimed ...

The memory wall is no longer a theoretical concern. It’s the defining bottleneck in today’s AI, automotive, and data center system-on-chips (SoCs). CPUs operate at GHz frequencies with single-digit ...

The reviews for AMD's highly anticipated Ryzen 7950X3D came out earlier today and it's a good gaming CPU. In this article, we ...

X3D Turbo Mode reportedly does a few things to improve performance on 3D V-Cache CPUs. First and most obviously, it limits operations to a single core complex die (CCD). CPUs like the Ryzen 9 7950X3D ...

The 'A20 Pro' featured in the iPhone 18 Pro.According to Apple, CPU performance has increased by up to 20% compared to the ...

A new rumor suggests that a next-gen Intel CPU with technology to rival AMD's gaming processors is on the way. The details about future Nova Lake gaming CPUs, while very much unconfirmed so far, ...

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