In the early 2010s, Arm’s 32-bit cores had established themselves in cell phones and tablets. But rising memory capacities in…
AMD’s Terascale architecture became very competitive as it matured with the HD 5000 and 6000 series. But using GPUs for…
Nvidia’s Fermi architecture was ambitious and innovative, offering advances in GPU compute along with features like high tessellation performance. However…
Computing power has emerged as a crucial national resource. Ever since the first general purpose computer, ENIAC, was used to…
ARM’s Cortex A72 is a 3-wide, speculative, out of order microarchitecture launched in 2016. During its prime, it saw service…
Multicore CPUs have to give user programs a way to synchronize between different cores, and ensure a coherent view of…
CPU-Z is a hardware information tool from a company called CPUID, not to be confused with the CPUID instruction. Besides…
Integrated GPUs are often low-end affairs. Even when graphics performance matters, a combination of cost, die space, memory bandwidth, and…
Arm has traditionally targeted the low end of the power and performance curve, but just as Intel has been looking…
Maxon’s Cinebench is a perennial benchmark favorite. It’s free, easy to run, and scales across as many cores as you…