Recently today, a Geekbench Benchmark of the Ryzen 5 3600 leaked. Ryzen 5 3600 Geekbench 4 result leaked It shows a single-core score of 5930 and a multi-core score of 26371. With this information, we can extrapolate the performance of other Zen 2 CPUs in AMD's lineup, such as the Ryzen 7 3700X and 3800X. … Continue reading A Quick Dive Into Zen 2 Performance Predictions
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Ryzen 9 3900X – Not AMD’s best
AMD's first ever Computex Keynote last night was quite a shock. There are so many things to talk about, such as AMD's decision to start a new architecture, RDNA, for Navi. However, in this article, we will focus on AMD's Zen 2 CPUs. 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen Processor Family (Ryzen 7 + Ryzen 9) For … Continue reading Ryzen 9 3900X – Not AMD’s best
Chiplets – Why It Can Solve The Slowing Of Moore’s Law
Moore’s law, which states that the transistor density of integrated circuits will double every year, has slowed down. Many companies have attempted to combat this issue as the need for processing power increased. Despite a sharp increase in the costs of a new node, transistor density saw little improvement. While it was common for most … Continue reading Chiplets – Why It Can Solve The Slowing Of Moore’s Law
Apple: The Desktop Problem
In addition to problems with the laptop line, Apple has problems with their desktop line as well. The Mac Pro is too old and expensive, with a 6-core configuration costing 4 times as much (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xc3LXP) as a custom build one with similar performance and the 12-core configuration can cost 3 times as more than a … Continue reading Apple: The Desktop Problem
The AMD FX Chips Don’t Suck (Anymore)?
Previously, I thought of AMD's FX series of CPUs to be complete and utter garbage. High cost, low single threaded performance, and multi threaded performance that was impossible to take advantage of at the time it was released. However, after a good 6 years, the AMD FX series are not that bad of a buy. … Continue reading The AMD FX Chips Don’t Suck (Anymore)?
AMD’s 3000 Series Ryzen Mobile Chips – Better Than Expected?
In late 2017, AMD released their Ryzen 2000 series mobile CPU's although they sported CPU performance comparable to Intel 8th Gen mobile CPU's and much better mobile performance, they were not well received by the public. A large reason is due to the lack of driver optimizations and the problem of too much power consumption … Continue reading AMD’s 3000 Series Ryzen Mobile Chips – Better Than Expected?
Nvidia Will Still Remain As The Dominant GPU Company
In AMD's keynote yesterday, they made only one product announcement: The Vega VII. It retails for $699 US and is built on AMD's new 7nm process. The specs seem to be impressive, with a whopping 1 TB/s of memory bandwidth (compared to 616 GB/s on the RTX 2080 Ti), 16 GB of HBM2 (compared to … Continue reading Nvidia Will Still Remain As The Dominant GPU Company
Why AMD Not Announcing Specs Of Zen 2 In Their CES 2019 Keynote Is A Very, Very Good Thing
In AMD's CES keynote today, I, with probably many others, was very disappointed when Dr. Su did not disclose the specs of Zen 2. However, as many people in the subreddit r/AMD have pointed out, Zen 2 pretty much confirmed at this point to have 8x2 cores (for a total of 16) on the naked … Continue reading Why AMD Not Announcing Specs Of Zen 2 In Their CES 2019 Keynote Is A Very, Very Good Thing
Smaller CPU Process Nodes in 2019
Since 2014, the semiconductor industry has been using the 14nm process node. Just this year in 2018, AMD and Nvidia have switched to 12nm (with the Zen + and Turing microarchitecture respectively), although it isn’t much of a difference. Next year, however, AMD will make the jump to a 7nm process - which AMD claims … Continue reading Smaller CPU Process Nodes in 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 – The Best Value Black Friday Processor Reviewed
It’s almost Black Friday, and people are already working out to prep their bodies for those Black Friday fights. One of those fights might involve fights over the best CPU deals. Before you try to spend countless hours on research, I’ve done it all of you right here. The CPU you’re looking for is the … Continue reading AMD Ryzen 5 2600 – The Best Value Black Friday Processor Reviewed
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