While most enthusiasts chase the absolute best performance at any cost, there are a few who use efficiency as their benchmark for a card’s attractiveness. It can be argued that the efficiency of a design – how effectively it utilizes the resources available…

Header Image credit goes to Martijn Boer. In the world of x86 CPUs there are two major players, Intel and AMD. However, there is one (well two but that will be expanded on later) other company that designs and produces CPUs that are fully compatible with…

Often using an older GPU means sacrificing visual quality or resolution—trade-offs that many may find to be unacceptable. Overclocking can help of course, but what if you want more?That, my friends, is what we are here to find out.

Author’s Note: Andrei Frumusanu from Anandtech has reached out in this Tweet to clarify how Anandtech does Core to Core latency testing https://twitter.com/andreif7/status/1373942191920406530?s=19 Now, the program we use for Core to Core testing was made…

Banner image credit goes to Fritzchens Fritz and his amazing die shots Recent AMD and Intel high performance CPUs implement an op cache that remembers decoder output and functions like a L0 instruction cache. Compared to the traditional L1i fetch and decode…

Previously, we looked at ARM and x86 and concluded high performance designs wouldn’t get a significant advantage by using either instruction set. That article focused narrowly on the respective ISAs, and assumed equal ecosystem and implementation goals. Today…

Zen 3 is one of the fastest CPU cores currently on the market; that isn’t up for debate.However, even the fastest CPU cores have bottlenecks and today we are talking about the bottlenecks that Zen 3 has and what AMD could improve with Zen 4. We gathered far…

For the past decade, ARM CPU makers have made repeated attempts to break into the high performance CPU market so it’s no surprise that we’ve seen plenty of articles, videos and discussions about ARM’s effort, and many of these pieces focus on differences…

Radeon driver 21.6.1 puts Hawaii and Fiji out to pasture. Why? At the height of 2021’s continuing GPU shortages, AMD has chosen a curious time to end support for a line of GPUs that while old—the Hawaii-based Radeon R9 290X launched in 2013—still manage to…

This is the 2nd article of a multi-part series, with the focus starting on image compression. I would heavily recommend reading the 1st article as it explores a part of the history of image compression, which leads to talking quite a bit about the basis of…

AMD’s Graphs of 6700 XT Performance: 3070 Beater? When AMD went live on March 3rd they showed the graph below: In and of itself, this is a typical “red bar graph” first-party AMD performance slide that we have become accustomed to in their launch events.…

This article has been a LONG time coming since our article on Rocket Lake, where we talked about core to core latency for the first time here on Chips and Cheese. This is a follow up article exclusively about core to core latency. The core to core latency…

In our current times, digital information is one of the most important facets of our society. We generate a lot of data, transport a lot of data, and store a large portion of that data. Managing such huge quantities of data is a large task: one that requires…

We’ve gotten used to measuring CPU cache and memory latencies, so why not do the same to GPUs? Like CPUs, GPUs have evolved to use multi-level cache hierarchies to address the growing gap between compute and memory performance. And like CPUs, we can use pointer…

It’s all very normal, but good journalism is trying to keep things objective in pursuit of the truth, to the benefit of our readers.Guys, gals, and non-binary pals, I think we just had one of those exciting moments.Today in this follow-up article, we will…

Cinebench R15 (CBR15) is a popular benchmark based on Cinema4D’s 3D rendering engine. It can utilize all available CPU threads, but here we’ll be analyzing it in single thread mode. In short, Zen 2 pulls ahead thanks to its superior branch predictor, larger…

For a port of Windows to another architecture to be usable, a high level of backwards compatibility is needed to delight customers. Customer frustration has to be maintained at a minimum. Otherwise, such an endeavor can get very expensive quickly, with rising…

Update 5/2/21 1340 GMT: 1usmus himself has replied to our findings; we have included his reply and some points after the conclusion at the end of the article. Article has been edited for clarity. What is CTR? Clock Tuner for Ryzen (CTR) is a tool created…

Recently, we’ve heard rumors that NVIDIA Corporation is targeting a MCM design for their next-generation server GPU. While future product details are scarce and volatile, we can guess at Nvidia’s aims by looking at their research. A 2017 paper co-authored…

Instead, we will be exploring what the three companies have—or in one case haven’t—done to secure their products from the threats present in the world and on the net. All of the information sourced here comes from authoritative sources at all three companies…