Arm’s Cortex A510: Two Kids in a Trench Coat
Arm’s 5-series line moves slowly. The Cortex A53 and A55 each served across multiple generations of 7-series companions, and both were 2-wide in-order cores running at low clocks. When your architecture is only expected to handle non-demanding background tasks, you don’t need to push…
Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy
Intel is a newcomer to the world of discrete graphics cards, and the company’s Xe architecture is driving its effort to establish itself alongside AMD and Nvidia. We’ve seen Xe variants serve in integrated GPUs and midrange discrete cards, but Intel’s not stopping there.…
Hot Chips 2023: AMD’s Phoenix SoC
AMD’s mobile and small form factor journey has been arduous. In the early 2010s, the company’s Bulldozer-derived CPU cores stood no chance as Intel made massive gains in power efficiency. Zen narrowed the gap, but AMD still had a lot of work to do.…
Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AMD’s 7900 XTX
Bethesda has a history of making demanding AAA games set in immersive open worlds. Starfield is the latest, and can best be described as Skyrim in space. Open world games put heavy demands on developers and gaming hardware because the increased scope dramatically increases…
Arm at HC35 (2023): CSS-Genesis
It would be a rather large understatement to say that Arm has strong popularity in general purpose CPU cores. Arm has been going forward full speed with introducing successive generations of new cores, in both the Cortex line of end-user oriented products and the…
Hot Chips 2023: Arm’s Neoverse V2
Arm has a long history in making low power CPUs, but have been trying to expand their reach into higher power and higher performance segments. At Hot Chips 2023, Arm presented the Neoverse V2, the newest member of their line of high performance server…
Hot Chips 2023: Characterizing Gaming Workloads on Zen 4
AMD didn’t present a lot of new info about the Zen 4 core at their Hot Chips 2023 presentation. Uops.info has measured execution throughput and latency for instructions on Zen 4. We’ve dug deep into Zen 4’s microarchitecture in a set of articles as…
Hot Chips 2023: SiFive’s P870 Takes RISC-V Further
RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture, which means that anyone can create a core that understands RISC-V instructions without worrying about patents and licenses. SiFive is an important player in the RISC-V scene, and creates custom RISC-V cores that other companies can license.…
Hot Chips 2023: Ventana’s Unconventional Veyron V1
The RISC-V scene has been heating up. SiFive’s designs have moved into higher power and performance envelopes. Alibaba’s T-HEAD division has been creating RISC-V chips in a bid to develop a viable line of indigenous server CPUs. Now, Ventana is joining the party with…
Ivy Bridge’s Gen7 Graphics: Intel’s Modern iGPU Push
Intel has maintained an integrated graphics effort for a long time. The company’s integrated GPUs were not expected to do much beyond driving a display and offloading video decode. You could run games on them, but would probably be looking at poor framerates even…
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