… In some cases, though, like Monster Hunter Wilds, AMD claims it can be as much as 40% faster. Even in games with ray tracing enabled, like Assassin's Creed Shadows, it claims more than a 30% performance advantage at 1440p. …
… That's with 16 performance cores, the first time Intel has offered more than eight of those cores on a single flagship. But it's the cache that could be the biggest game changer, and now X leaker Jaykihn0 is claiming that CPU will have 288MB. …
… This isn't particularly surprising; companies typically present a range of game benchmarks that collectively show varying relationships between themselves and their competitors: Many of Intel's performance claims, however, are significantly larger than 1.19x. …
… Tweet opens in a new tab With Nova Lake dropping in the latter months of this year and covering the performance and gaming space, a Wildcat Lake refresh in 2027 with a big jump in multi-threaded performance would likely be a strong seller in the budget segment. …
… Users can now switch between emulation and native modes, giving them an idea of the performance loss they can expect with non-native apps. Nvidia claims its new N1 platform can run any software ever created. …
… These are impressive claims. We'll have to wait and see what Intel practically delivers on this front, but the performance targets that Intel is claiming to have hit and its overall level of performance against AMD are both huge improvements over past GPU implementations. …
… While the lack of a quad-core part might make for an uphill marketing battle -- people still love their higher core counts -- in reality a dual-core CPU should be more than capable of handling most workloads most apps and games are still bottlenecked by single-threaded performance . …
… There will likely be X3D variants for extra gaming performance, too. …
… With 52 cores—and crucially, 16 performance cores for the first time—the top CPU is likely to compete with AMD's best upcoming Zen 6 CPUs. If it can hold high clock speeds as well, the performance of such a consumer chip could be off the charts. …
… DirectStorage delivers up to 100GB of game assets as "extended memory" with guaranteed performance of up to 2.4GB/s. Microsoft claims to have optimized DirectStorage specifically for game asset delivery. The Xbox Series X also supports instant resume from multiple games. …