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… Kaveri is the Steamroller-based, GCN-equipped APU that will hopefully kick AMD's single-thread performance out of the doldrums. In its Hot Chips presentation last year, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster showed off a number of design changes being baked into the new core. …
… The CPU -- not the GPU -- is the bottleneck here. If that's true, that certainly explains why both versions of the game are running at a lower resolution and frame rate. While the PS4 does have a superior GPU, both consoles are using very similar AMD Jaguar CPUs . …
… Desktop CPUs are not strongly latency-bound, so it'll be interesting to see if the larger bandwidth gap between DDR4 and DDR5 at launch produces a meaningful performance gap outside of memory-sensitive benchmarks. …
… Some systems will reportedly offer GPUs based on AMD's Polaris architecture, while the lower-cost models will use Intel's integrated graphics. USB Type-C is also rumored to be on the way and Thunderbolt 3 is logically expected, though whether Apple will use USB Type-C for it is a matter of debate. …
… Intel Core i9-10900K CPU Review: Comet Lake Paints a Target on AMD’s Matisse Intel May Have Reserved Its Top-End 28W Ice Lake CPUs Exclusively For Apple Intel, TSMC Reportedly in Talks to Build New US Foundries
… If Intel or AMD were founded today, they'd be named Chiply. You'd sign up for a service that shipped you a CPU of your choice with a corresponding monthly fee and a hardwired 30-day validation requirement. …