#cpu-architecture-impact

#cpu-architecture-impact

During prompt processing, the H100s were running at 92% compute utilization. Tensor cores fully saturated. Exactly what you want to see on a $30K GPU.

"This is where I think our R&D has done exceptionally well in terms of leveraging existing EUV technology while setting an aggressive technology scaling roadmap," says Kevin Zhang, deputy co-chief operations officer and senior vice president at TSMC. "This is definitely a strength."

What we didn't really find in our testing was evidence that the extra 64MB of L3 cache meaningfully improved performance beyond what the regular 9950X3D can already do.

At least two of the company's upcoming machines could debut a little later than the company initially planned, referencing the refreshes to Apple's desktop and its laptop that's expected to get a touchscreen.

Both work with Linux's existing swapping mechanism. Swapping (called paging in Windows) is a way for the kernel to handle running low on available RAM. It chooses pages of memory that aren't in use right now and copies them to disk, then those blocks can be marked as free and reused for something else.

Sorano will be available with up to 84 Zen 5 cores - up from 64 on Siena - in a power envelope of just 225 watts. AMD isn't ready to spill all the beans on its latest Epyc just yet, but based on core count alone, we surmise the chip will either feature six density-optimized Zen 5c chiplets with 14 of 16 cores enabled or 12 of the frequency-optimized Zen 5 variety with one of the eight cores fused off.

The Xeon 600 lineup spans the gamut between 12 and 86 performance cores (no cut-down efficiency cores here), with support for between four and eight channels of DDR5 and 80 to 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0 connectivity. Compared to its aging W-3500-series chips, Intel is claiming a 9 percent uplift in single threaded workloads and up to 61 percent higher performance in multithreaded jobs, thanks in no small part to an additional 22 processor cores this generation.

Probably not worth it The Ryzen 7 9850X3D mostly does what it says it does: It's a mild speed bump to AMD's best gaming processor that, in most cases, very slightly extends the company's performance lead over Intel chips like the Core Ultra 9 285K. But the vanilla 9800X3D is almost as fast, it uses 25 or 30 W less power during gaming (which also results in temperatures that are 10 to 15 degrees Celsius cooler), and it's $30 cheaper as of this writing.