Note the publish day of this article. There will be a proper one on Terascale 3 later on, don’t worry.…
Note: Jake has commented that Nvidia’s tools may not show the true BVH structure. That’s a distinct possibility, as the…
Last year, Intel’s Golden Cove brought the company back to competitive against AMD. Unfortunately for Intel, that only applied to…
Zen 2’s launch was a defining moment for AMD. For the first time in many, many years, AMD’s single thread…
Loongson used to make CPUs based off the MIPS ISA, but the company recently switched to a homegrown ISA called…
In 2019, AMD moved off their long-serving GCN architecture in favor of RDNA. We’ll cover the first generation of RDNA…
After Conroe’s launch in 2006, Intel had an excellent core architecture (Merom). They smacked AMD around in the client space…
Loongson’s 3A5000 represents another domestic CPU effort from China. It implements four LA464 cores, and targets everything from desktops to…
In Part 1, we looked at Bulldozer’s core architecture. But the architecture itself isn’t the full story. Memory advances have…
AMD’s K7 Athlon architecture formed the basis of the company’s CPU offerings for around a decade. Athlon did very well…