Some workloads are a single tangled-up thread with various data types and crunchy compute; for these, our modern CPU cores are perfectly-suited. Other workloads (like, say, graphics) are giant piles ...

At the event, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger explained: "AI innovation is poised to raise the digital economy's impact up to as much as one-third of global gross domestic product. Intel is developing the ...

For as long as I’ve been building PCs, there’s been one number that always gets enthusiasts buzzing – core count. In most cases, every leap forward in desktop processors has been measured in how many ...

The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX series CPUs comes in 6 different SKUs available, starting out at with the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7945WX processor with 12 cores and 24 threads at up to ...

For developers, threading is an important issue that impacts game performance. Here's how task scheduling works in Apple Silicon games. Demands on GPU and CPUs are some of the most compute-intensive ...

For creators and power users, few CPUs come close to the performance offered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper line. The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series—most notably the 9980X and 9970X—brings the ...

A week ago, we were discussing the misconception that CPU performance doesn't matter for 4K gaming. We showed that although sometimes it doesn't matter – as you will indeed end up GPU limited – that's ...