GPUs started out as devices meant purely for graphics rendering, but their highly parallel nature made them attractive for certain…
Recently, curiosity drove me to do some microbenchmarking on Lambda Cloud’s A100 instance. That A100 instance is powered by a…
In a previous article, we compared Infinity Cache latency between the RX 7900 XTX, and the smaller RX 7600. After…
Editor’s Note (6/14/2023): We have a new article that reevaluates the cache latency of Navi 31, so please refer to…
Tech enthusiasts probably know ARM as a company that develops reasonably performant CPU architectures with a focus on power efficiency.…
In a previous article, we covered Cyberpunk 2077’s “Overdrive” raytracing mode. Rasterization and raytracing are both parallelizable, but raytracing tends…
Hardware raytracing acceleration has come a long way since Nvidia’s Turing first introduced the technology. Even with these hardware advances,…
Compute performance has been held back by memory performance for decades, with DRAM performance falling even further behind with every…
This article was written in March 2023. At the time of writing, the encoders we used were still in active…
We at Chips and Cheese have covered two Chinese CPU architectures: Zhaoxin’s x86 compatible Lujiazui architecture found in the KX-6000…