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Intel Core i7-3970X Sandy Bridge-E CPU Review
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 It's no secret that Intel is readying processors based in its Haswell microarchitecture. The new chips are due to be released in the not too distant future and feature a number of noteworthy enhancements, including a much more powerful integrated graphics core.
When Haswell arrives though, it will supplant current Ivy Bridge-based processors, which target more mainstream market segments than the product we'll be showing you today. For the foreseeable future, Intel's big dog remains Sandy Bridge-E, the monstrous six-core beast which utilizes the X79 Express chipset and socket LGA 2011.
Prior to the arrival of Haswell, we figured it would be a good idea to show you just what Intel's current flagship desktop processor could do. That processor is the Core i7-3970X...
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memory speed on AMD Trinity APUs
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In order to find out exactly what the influence of RAM speed is on AMD processors, we put an AMD A10 5800K processor on an ASUS F2A85-V Pro motherboard and ran a number of benchmarks at various memory speeds.
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News: AMD sheds light on Kaveris uniform memory architecture
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At the Fusion Developer Summit last June, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster teased Kaveri, AMD`s next-generation APU due later this year. Among other things, Papermaster revealed that Kaveri will be based on the Steamroller architecture and that it will be the first AMD APU with fully shared memory. Last week, AMD shed some more light on Kaveri`s uniform memory architecture, which now has a snazzy marketing name: heterogeneous uniform memory access, or hUMA for short."
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Haswell platform
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Graphics is a focal point of the upcoming Haswell platform, necessitating a high bandwidth memory solution. To deliver high performance Intel is returning to the DRAM market, which it exited in 1985. The memory that ships with Haswell will be a custom embedded DRAM mounted in the package and manufactured on a variant of Intel’s 22nm process. By avoiding the commodity memory market, Intel will preserve high margins by cannibalizing discrete GPUs and dedicated graphics memory.
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AMD Announces hUMA
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To understand hUMA, we should first talk a bit about the UMA (Uniform Memory Access) and NUMA (Non-Unified Memory Access) architectures prevalent today. UMA refers to how the processing cores in a system view and access memory. In a UMA-capable architecture, all processing cores share a single memory address space. The introduction of GPU computing, however, created systems with Non-Uniform Memory Access, or NUMA. NUMA requires data to be managed across multiple memory heaps with different address spaces for CPUs and GPUs, which adds programming complexity due to frequent copies, synchronization, and address translation. Things come full circle with hUMA...
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AMD Releases Latest Generation of G-Series Embedded Products
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This is just another step for AMD to get into markets they previously overlooked or had abandoned long ago. As mentioned above, AMD will continue to lower TDPs, and eventually they will produce ARM based designs of their own to fill in the gaps left by higher power x86 products. Until that point, a G-Series processor would be a pretty compelling basis for a highly interactive TV or set top box."
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Intel Haswell GPU: HD Graphics becomes Iris (Pro)
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The Haswell processors will be launched on June 4, and Intel now claims they will offer up to three times the 3D performance of the current Ivy Bridge generation. The fastest integrated GPUs will be called Intel Iris and Intel Iris Pro.
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Intel Silvermont Architecture Updates Atom for Phones and Tablets
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After hearing Intel`s engineers and product marketers talk about it, I am cautiously optimistic about what Intel has created here. The one problem I see with that data that was presented is quite simply the time delay on product release. Tablets will likely be available in late fall but smartphones using Merrifield aren`t going to be out until early 2014, giving competing companies like NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Samsung more than enough time to respond."
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AMD Details hUMA: HSA in Action!
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Standalone GPUs can benefit from HSA, but not to the extent of an APU. A dedicated GPU will have its own attached memory as well as shared memory with the main CPU. Due to the communication latency issues of writing from main memory to the video cards memory, it is not nearly as seamless as what an APU can accomplish. It makes sense that such a setup would benefit a solution with a shared memory pool as well as a shared memory controller. Everything else involves more latency and differing amounts and types of memory."
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Intel Lifts Veil on Haswell Graphics Branding
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Intel is finally offering up juicy details on its Haswell graphics offerings after teasing it at CES, including branding and some performance metrics. With the release of the company's 4th generation Core processors, Intel's new integrated graphics will go by the "Iris" moniker. Meanwhile, Intel's baseline HD Graphics will also see a bump in performance and capabilities.
Now, we'll see Intel HD 5000 graphics along with the higher-end Intel Iris Graphics 5100 and Iris Pro Graphics 5200...
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Fourth generation Intel Core preview: all about Haswell
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: It's official now, on June 4 Intel launches the fourth generation Core processors. Haswell will likely come into its own with Ultrabooks and tablets. The new processors will enable them to become thinner, faster and more efficient, and Intel's prototype Haswell Ultrabook shows there's a lot of potential here.
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Silvermont is Intel’s first CPU core
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Silvermont is Intel’s first CPU core tailored for power efficient applications such as smartphones, tablets, and microservers. The 22nm microarchitecture features updated instruction set extensions, full out-of-order execution with a tightly coupled L2 cache, aggressive power management, and a new high performance SoC fabric. These enhancements deliver tremendous performance and frequency gains over the aging Atom core, putting Intel’s mobile strategy in a more competitive position compared to Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung and others.
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AMD FX-8570 and HD 8970 surfaced @ Ocaholic
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Just yesterday we found some impressive overclocking results regarding Intels upcoming Haswell processors. After that we started digging a bit deeper and what we found is staggering. It looks like there is first proof for an upcoming AMD FX-8570 CPU as well as an upcoming Radeon HD 8970 graphics card."
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Haswell doing 3333MHz on IMC piece of cake @ Ocaholic
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In onther CPU-Z validation we found that Haswell must have quite a decent IMC. In combination with Apacer memory modules it has been possible to reach 1661 MHz, which means an effective clock speed of 3322 Mhz."
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