AMD's 7800X3D and 7950X3D CPUs reign supreme in the gaming realm, not solely due to their core count or clock speeds, but primarily owing to their abundant cache. CPU cache refers to a small yet ...

The development of caches and caching is one of the most significant events in the history of computing. Virtually every modern CPU core from ultra-low power chips like the ARM Cortex-A5 to the ...

A CPU relies on various kinds of storage to optimally run programs and power a computer. These include components like hard disks and SSDs for long-term storage, RAM and GPU memory for fast, temporary ...

Ahead of AMD’s Zen launch in early 2017, enthusiasts were clamoring for exciting progress in the desktop CPU market. While we saw GPUs gain tremendously from one generation to the next, every CPU ...

To understand the design decisions behind the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, you must understand cache and how it works inside of a processor. Cache is an often underappreciated, yet vitally important, piece of any ...

It's 2026, but AMD got me excited for a 2024 CPU ...

AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs could offer up to 19 percent higher single-thread performance than Ryzen 7000, paving the way for higher frame rates in games. Regular hardware information leaker @9550pro has ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Buying a gaming PC unlocks the door for some of the greatest games of all time, but it can be pretty pricey. Whether you're buying a pre-built ...

In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performance. To do that, we used three Intel Core processors and compared their core scaling performance, ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...