For over a decade the industry has been preparing to reach a new level for modern computer systems: Exascale computing. However, getting a computer system to reach 1018 floating point operations per second in a scenario where it could no…

A few days ago at the IEDM, Intel disclosed their future process node technologies, showing on what will probably become an iconic slide how Intel expects to have a 2-year cadence for the development of its manufacturing process node technology…

Part 1: An Intro to Tom’s Build Hi! I am Tom, the creator of the “Moore’s Law Is Dead” YouTube channel and Broken Silicon Podcast (there’s a website too!). As is custom, I will start by introducing my dog build:…

A while back AMD sent me a review sample of the 3400G, their ZEN+ APU with Vega 11 graphics. So it’s not a 7nm part but it should perform well given the 4.2GHz boost, and 4 cores / 8 threads….

AMD recently added support for FidelityFX on their Polaris GPUs. The RX 580 is still my recommendation for 1080p, and with some quality settings adjustments it will do 1440p pretty well. Since the RX 580 has been reviewed and benchmarked…

Guest post by Essen This morning I was going through my discord feed and saw this article by Tom’s hardware on the leaked AMD bios patch for reaching higher frequencies. I remember looking at the figures and seeing the beautifully…

This article was originally posted on the 9th of September 2019 AMD and Microsoft were kind enough to send me a review copy for Gears 5. The two companies (through developer Coalition) worked together to bring features to the game…

This article was originally posted on the 29th July 2019 Just the other week I participated in the podcast “Broken Silicon” discussing future trends in microprocessors, among other topics. Seeing as the recording was done very late at night in…

This article was originally posted on the 23rd June 2019 There are two metrics to determine a microprocessor’s performance, Speed of Execution and Throughput. With new consumer CPUs up to 16 cores soon becoming available on the market – like…