The Hot Take: It's going to be interesting if Intel can make a sudden comeback with actual functional management. I have a feeling this is going to be my next system.
Some high-end motherboards for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors have been tipped to include a dual-lever retention mechanism called "2L-ILM." We've seen something similar before with LGA 2011, but that a server platform. Boards with 2L-ILM will live alongside standard ILM (1L-ILM?) variants that are cheaper to produce.
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The Hot Take: They did state prices were going up. Now is it inflation or greed?
Following earlier listings, AMD has now confirmed the US $899 price tag for its Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 flagship. The new flagship CPU with dual 3D V-Cache comes with a hefty premium compared to its single 3D V-Cache counterpart, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D.
Confirmed by AMD’s VP and GM of Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics, David McAfee, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which will be officially available on April 22nd, will be selling for $899, depending on the supply and demand. In case you missed it, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is a 16-core/32-thread SKU that features dual 3D V-Cache, which means that each of the 8-core CCDs has its own cache, leaving the CPU with a total of 208MB of L2 and L3 cache. It works at 4.3GHz base and 5.6GHz Boost clocks and has a 200W TDP.
Although it should be best suited for gaming, AMD is also targeting content creators and developers, saying that it should handle complex workloads and datasets. Unfortunately, AMD has so far shared only select benchmarks, and we’ll have to wait for some official reviews to check out its gaming performance and improvements in latency due to the fact that each CCD has its own cache.
We’ll be keeping an eye on when official reviews go live, and it actually starts shipping from retailers/e-tailers.
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The Hot Take: It appears intel is back on the offensive and actually innovating again. This is what competition is supposed to bring us.
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake-S CPUs will feature a 44-core "Dual Compute Tile" CPU config instead of a 42-core configuration. Intel Nova Lake-S 42-Core Desktop CPU Spec Upgraded To 44 Cores, Retains Dual Compute Tile Config With bLLC A few months back, we reported that Intel was working on a range of Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs that will come in 52, 42, 28, and 24 core configurations, all featuring bLLC cache. It looks like one of these SKUs will be getting a spec upgrade. As per Jaykihn, the 42-core spec has now been upgraded to 44 cores, featuring 16 P-Cores (2x8) and […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/intel-updates-nova-lake-s-desktop-44-core-dual-compute-tile-cpu/
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The Hot Take: If this is true, I feel ARM may have serious competition on their hands.
Many believe that Apple makes the most efficient laptop chips and that MacBooks have the best battery life because the Arm ISA supposedly offers superior performance and efficiency over the crufty x86 ISA. But that is not the case. Apple's products are relatively strong because Apple's engineers do an excellent job at designing them for a
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The Hot Take: I'm sorry optimization is optimization. Stop crying.
Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool (BOT) has come under scrutiny following a technical analysis conducted by Geekbench, which examined how the software impacts benchmark performance.
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The Hot Take: Reading through them using SIMD, just sounds like they're optimizing the thread pipeline. How can anyone think it's "Cheating"? It's just optimization all hardware vendors do with their silicon.
Geekbench has taken a closer look at Intel's Binary Optimization Tool and found that it can automatically vectorize a large number of instructions.
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The Hot Take: Intel doing what it's great at with it's CPUs, software optimizations.
With the introduction of the new Binary Optimization Tool (BOT), Intel is taking a significantly different approach to boosting the performance of modern processors than in the past. While traditional optimizations rely heavily on developers and are determined during the software compilation process, Intel is now focusing on a post-compilation optimization layer based directly on […]
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The Hot Take: I'm wondering if Intel is holding out on the 290K to drop after AMD's price drops in response to these chips. They're getting good response from what I've been seeing.
Intel has shared official benchmarks of its Core Ultra 7 270K Plus & Core Ultra 5 250K Plus in gaming, apps, and more, against AMD Ryzen CPUs. Core Ultra 200S Plus Are Now The Fastest Gaming CPUs From Intel, Surpassing the Core i9-14900K. For performance comparisons, Intel is pitting the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus against the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus against the Ryzen 5 9600X. Both of these CPUs are valid comparisons based on their prices. The company also compares the performance against existing Core Ultra 200S "Non Plus" & 14th Gen CPUs […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus-core-ultra-5-250k-plus-official-gaming-app-benchmarks/
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The Hot Take: Seems like ASRock keeps leaking everyones up and coming products. But this wasn't a surprise with Intel hitting back with their own on chip memory stack.
ASRock has inadvertently confirmed the existence of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor, following the premature publication of a press release on its official website.
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The Hot Take: Intel hopefully catches up. We'll have to see what the real word benches say.
When an apparent Medusa Point APU based on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture found its way to Geekbench earlier this week, the big news was the amount of reported L3 cache. Well, whoever is uploading benchmark runs of the mystery chip to Geekbench has done so again, and this time the highlight is on the performance and what looks like
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