CPU

AMD upcoming Raven Ridge Ryzen 5 2500U APU has appeared on Geekbench database. The Ridge APUs will feature both Vega graphics and Ryzen CPU cores, the Ryzen 5 2500U which we are talking about, has 4 Zen cores and 8 threads (via SMT) running at 2.0 GHz with AMD's Vega graphics. According to Geekbench scores, the Ryzen APU scores 3,561...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced it has added 11-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology (11LPP, Low Power Plus) to its advanced foundry process portfolio, offering customers with an even wider range of options for their next-generation products. Through further scaling from the earlier 14LPP process, 11LPP delivers up to 15 percent higher...

As Intel's 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" processors coming closer to its 5th October launch, more leaks are coming out as early access to the retail chips are putting them through benchmarks. One such benchmark scores spotted on Geekbench database. A Core i7-8700K six-core chip is running on an EVGA-Z370 chipset-based motherboard (model code: 121-KS-E375). The Core i7-8700K was running...

Intel's upcoming Coffee Lake series CPUs EU pricing has been leaked by Guru3D, revealing prices that are higher than current Kaby Lake-S counterparts. Currently, these prices have not been confirmed by Intel, so take that in mind, though they do seem very close to what many consumers are expecting given the pricing of AMD's Ryzen lineup and the core...

Once again overclocker Der8auer has delidded an Intel Core i9 7920X Skylake-X chip, revealing the actual CPU-Die for use to see. He used his delidding tool, Delid-Die-Mate-X, the die is much larger than Intel's 10-core i9-7900X. Also, Intel is still not doing soldering on its enthusiast-targeted CPUs, which would result in better temperatures and, potentially, overclocking potential. Der8auer has...

As a response to AMD's Ryzen success in the consumer, HEDT and server markets with its vertical slice of the Zen architecture, Intel has started rebranding their products and placement to respond new competition. The E5 and E7 Xeons are gone, with the introduction of a metallic naming scheme: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum are now Intel's Xeon products,...

Building on the global enthusiasm generated by the launch of Ryzen high-end desktop processors and EPYC server processors for the datacenter, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced broad adoption of enterprise solutions featuring AMD Ryzen PRO desktop processors. Designed for business, Ryzen PRO processors bring reliability, security, and performance to address the demands of today's compute-intensive enterprise-focused workloads. Commercially-focused desktop...

Intel today announced its 8th generation Core processor family, which will be the new mainstream desktop (MSDT) processor SKUs by Intel. On the live steam, Intel was stressing on the "40% more performance over the previous-generation," even though the "Coffee Lake" micro-architecture is essentially a refined version of the "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake" architectures. Intel has claimed a 40% by...

Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) released two models of its highly anticipated, Ryzen Threadripper high-end desktop processors, AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X. During an already record-setting year for the company through the successful launch of several award-winning Ryzen desktop processors for the AM4 platform, today's release of Ryzen Threadripper marks a major step forward in performance and features...

On Aug. 21, Intel will unveil the 8th Generation Intel Core processor family on Facebook Live. Watch as two exciting moments align: the Great American Solar Eclipse and the unveiling of Intel's most powerful family of processors for the next era of computing. Hear from those who are at the center of creating this technology and from creators who...

Today, Intel is releasing the specifications for the 12- to 18-core processors: Intel Core i9-7920X, Intel Core i9-7940X, Intel Core i9-7960X and the Extreme Edition Intel Core i9-7980XE processors. Announced at Computex 2017, the Intel Core X-series processor family is the most powerful, scalable and accessible high-end desktop platform offered by Intel, designed to deliver the performance needed to...

The famous Overclocker Der8auer has de-lidded the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X CPUs in a recent video, proving once and for all that AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper series CPUs are soldered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVK6rJR5VE This means that AMD's Threadripper CPUs should not be de-lidded by consumers, as it will most likely result in a dead CPU and at best will only result in...

Today AMD launched its Ryzen 3 series budget desktop processors for the AM4 socket. The lineup consists of the Ryzen 3 1200 priced at $109, and the faster Ryzen 3 1300X priced at $129. Which will compete with Intel Core i3 dual-core SKUs, such as the i3-7100 and the i3-7300, respectively. The Ryzen 3 chips are quad-core, but they are...

AMD’s CEO Lisa Su, unveiled what could be the retail packaging of the company's upcoming Ryzen Threadripper HEDT processors, before the company's grand SIGGRAPH event.   Though from the looks of it, I don’t think this is the retail packaging, as it looks shaped like an old-school television, and could be a prop AMD is using for its SIGGRAPH booth, or...

New CPU-Z screenshot leaked of Intel's upcoming Coffee Lake hexacore CPUs showing a desperate fight for AMD's Ryzen, as of now three different Intel 6-core processors leaks. The previous CPU-Z screenshot apparently pointed towards Intel's upcoming 8700K six-core processor, with a base clock of 3.5 GHz and a boost clock of 4.3 GHz. The BCLK of the CPU was...

We already know Intel is rumored to be releasing their next-generation mainstream series of CPUs earlier than usual within the next few months under the codename "Coffee Lake," offering up to 6 core CPUs. Though the mainstream 6 core CPUs will lack some of the features of Intel's new X299 CPUs (like AVX-512 support). The latest leaks come from CPCHardware,...

Intel today launched its new Intel Xeon Scalable processors, providing businesses with breakthrough performance, to handle compute-hungry tasks including real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure, and high-performance computing. Today's launch marks the greatest set of data center and network processor advancements in a decade. "Data center and network infrastructure is undergoing massive transformations to support emerging use cases like precision medicine, artificial intelligence...

Overclocker Sofos1990 has successfully overclocked his Intel Core i9 7900X to 6.01GHz, and mad a world record overclock for this CPU, which has also achieved several world records for several 10-core CPU benchmarks. The Intel i9 7900X to 6.01GHz has achieved a score of 12189.52 in HWBOT's PRIME benchmark, making it the fastest 10-core CPU in the world for...

As we are getting closer to AMD's Threadripper launch, more leak benchmark results are surfacing, the latest one on Geekbench database, showing the flagship 1950X preliminary scores. In the Geekbench, we can see the Threadripper 1950X @ 3.40 GHz gave Single-Core Score of 4074 and Multi-Core Score of 26768. Sadly, these scores are low in comparison to the 10-core i9-7900X,...

There are rumors that Intel will be releasing new CPU products in August, codename Coffee Lake, which will release on a new Z370 socket. Now a 6-core Intel Coffee Lake CPU has spotted on Geekbench's online database, showcasing promising performance numbers. We can see, the processor codename is Kaby Lake and uses the LGA 1151 socket. The CPU is clocked...