Haven't really put much thought into CPUs lately, but had this come up and I'm disappointed my Google-fu did not find a good answer I remember hyper-threading, where a core was 'pseudo-divided' into ...

Q: Looking at common CPUs for PC building and the specs for the upcoming next-generation consoles, I’ve found myself wondering: Will we need 8-core, 16-thread CPUs for gaming soon? No, not in the near ...

Again, I tested this pretty extensivly back when Intel first released the hyperthreaded P4, mostly so I could explain to my customers what to expect. I have had several people say things like "I have ...

AMD announced some third-generation Ryzen processors for both laptops and desktops at CES. To date, the highest-end model announced is an eight-core, 16-thread CPU with PCIe 4.0 support, codenamed ...

Earlier this week, we reported that there will initially be three processors launched in the upcoming 9 th generation Intel Core family, which is being called the Coffee Lake Refresh. Interestingly ...

The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is the new flagship in Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop CPU line-up, which is expected to be announced and unveiled this week. As part of the company's Core Ultra Series ...

For most of the past decade, Intel has followed a fairly steady set of rules when speccing out its Core i3, i5, and i7 processors. Until last year, Core i3 chips were dual-cores with Hyper-Threading ...

A new PassMark database entry has put Intel’s P-core-only “Bartlett Lake” chatter back on the radar, after months with little ...

AMD’s 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX is arguably the most powerful “consumer” CPU ever sold (for all the gory details, read our review). But most-powerful doesn’t always mean it’s a must-have in ...

Within a matter of months, Intel will introduce its first Alder Lake processors, effectively marking a near wholesale transition to hybrid computing, and kicking off the DDR5 memory era. From an ...