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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...

Today, AMD, along with its global ecosystem of server customers and partners, launched the EPYC 7000 series of high-performance datacenter processors. With up to 32 high-performance "Zen" cores and an unparalleled feature set, the record-setting AMD EPYC design delivers greater performance across a full range of integer, floating point, memory bandwidth, and I/O benchmarks and workloads. EPYC Product Overview A...

Intel announced its Intel Core X-series Core i9, i7 and i5 processor family and X299 platform at Computex 2017, today Intel announced the pricing and availability of those new CPUs. Starting with Intel Core i5-7640X X-series processor (MSRP: $242), Intel Core i7-7740X X-series processor (MSRP: $339), Intel Core i7-7800X X-series processor (MSRP: $389), Intel Core i7-7820X X-series processor (MSRP:...

An Intel Core i9-7900X review appeared on Hexus.net. The Core i9-7900X have achieved 4.7 GHz on all ten cores with only 1.25 V, but it reached up nearly 100°C in Cinebench at that voltage. The review was mostly positive, though they found that the performance per watt not have improved much if at all, criticized the high price tag, and...

AMD's upcoming flagship Ryzen Threadripper 16-core chip is bearing the model name Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (not the previously-reported 1998X). This new CPU was spotted on GeekBench 4.1.0, on an ASRock X399 Professional Gaming, paired with 16 GB of DDR4-2133 MHz memory. The 1950X was recorded clock speed was 3.40 GHz for this test, which probably is its final nominal...

AMD has recently announced that they will launch Ryzen Threadripperat with nine models for their new HEDT lineup, which will, the first 16 cores and 32 threads chip, the Threadripper 1998, will come in at 3.20 GHz with 3.60 GHz boost, 155 W TDP, and is absent of XFR. According to latest reports, this starting-level Threadripper 1998 will come in...

Commemorating 30 years in Taiwan, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today showcased the power of its upcoming Ryzen™ and Radeon™ products during its press conference at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2017. The company delivered a series of never-before-seen product demonstrations, showed new Ryzen processor-based high-end gaming systems from top global OEMs, and announced launch timelines for several of its upcoming datacenter, prosumer,...

AMD has talked more about its Ryzen Threadripper, its upcoming line of HEDT (high-end desktop) processors on its press conference at Computex. This was a direct response to Intel's recently launched Core i7 and Core i9 X-series processors. The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper will have some features advantage over its Intel counterparts, let’s talk about them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMGUdWVw2Y The first of, all...

Creating rich, immersive experiences and bringing them to life takes a lot of compute power. Creators, gamers and enthusiasts have an insatiable demand for more power, more performance and more capability that lets them focus on what they want to do, not on whether their computer is up to the task. Intel is committed to continue giving them that...

Intel today unveiled significant performance advances in its upcoming Intel Xeon Processor Scalable family. At the SAP Sapphire NOW conference, Intel showed up to 1.59x higher Intel Xeon processor performance running in-memory SAP HANA workloads over the generation it replaces, demonstrating what the new products will deliver to help meet the increasingly complex demands of big-data, in-memory workloads in...

At AMD Financial Analyst Day 2017, company has unveiled their "Naples" Zen implementation. The balanced Zen core in its unrestrained, server-grade level has become EPYC, with AMD CEO Lisa Su showing the silicon in her hand. The new EPYC platform with its I/O performance improvements allows more GPU connecting to a CPU than any other platform, with up to...

On the AMD 2017 Financial Analyst Day, AMD announced plans to create their two next-generation CPU and GPU products on a 7nm manufacturing process, with both Zen 2 and Navi to build on the 7nm process. AMD also revealed that they are currently using leapfrogging design teams which are designing both next-generation CPU and GPU products, which means that AMD's...

Intel is reportedly getting ready to unveil its new line of high-end desktop processors under the Core i9 brand extension. According to new leaks, with the new LGA2066 socket, Intel will be launching two distinct kinds of CPU series - the Core i7 "Kaby Lake-X" quad-core series; and the Core i9 "Skylake-X" 6-core, 8-core, 10-core, and 12-core processors. The Core...

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., has introduced two new mobile platforms, the Qualcomm SnapdragonTM 660 and 630, both designed to support a leap in performance enabling advanced photography and enhanced gaming, in addition to long battery life and fast LTE speeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmWZvymyDyE Support Top-tier Experiences Balancing Performance, Cost and Power The Snapdragon 660 and 630...