AMD acquired ATI in 2006, hoping ATI’s GPU expertise would combine with AMD’s CPU know-how to create integrated solutions worth…
Hardware Canucks recently found that Intel’s new B580 GPU suffered when paired with older, weaker CPUs. When paired with the…
A CPU core can perform very differently depending on the platform it’s deployed in. That was on full display with…
Skymont is Intel’s newest E-Core architecture. E-Cores trace their lineage to low power and low performance Atom cores of long…
CPUs start executing instructions by fetching those instruction bytes from memory and decoding them into internal operations (micro-ops). Getting data…
Arrow Lake is the codename for Intel’s newest generation of high performance desktop CPUs. Its highest end offering, the Core…
A loop buffer sits at a CPU’s frontend, where it holds a small number of previously fetched instructions. Small loops…
I recently wrote code to test memory latency under load, seeking to reproduce data in various presentations with bandwidth on…
Up to Haswell’s 2013 release, Intel’s “tick-tock” strategy seemed unstoppable. Broadwell sought to continue Intel’s juggernaut by porting Haswell to…
SPEC CPU2017 is an industry standard benchmark suite. OEMs use it to set performance expectations for their systems, and CPU…