Microsoft Borrows macOS-Style CPU Tricks to Make Windows 11 Up to 70% Smoother
… The key idea is to front‑load CPU performance into short bursts rather than running at high speed all the time. …
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AMD's new mobile Kaveri APU brings a big performance boost, now almost competitive with Intel in laptops
… The complete table of new laptop chips is shown below: High-end 35W parts will now carry the FX brand with clock speeds of up to 2.7GHz base, 3.6GHz turbo, 512 GPU cores, and a 686MHz GPU clock, while the 19W parts will combine a 2.1GHz base clock and 3.3GHz turbo mode with six GPU CUs 384 cores an… …
The third prong of AMD's new mobile assault: Lower power Richland APUs
… 1.6GHz and a 12.5% faster boost speed 2.7GHz vs. …
Google says it cuts JPEG size by 35 percent with new Guetzli algorithm, but our tests don't back that up
… We were curious to see how the program's output would stand up in testing, so we've done some testing of our own. …
iPhone XS LTE Performance Clobbers iPhone X, Still Slower Than Qualcomm
… PCMag also looked at real-world speed data from Ookla Speedtest disclosure: ExtremeTech's parent company Ziff Davis also owns Ookla . …
Intel Core i9-7980XE Review: Reclaiming the Desktop Performance Crown
… We've limited ourselves to performance comparisons as opposed to power consumption. Unfortunately, we were unable to test the 16-core Core i9-7960X due to the time we spent testing the Core i9-7980XE's odd behavior. …
Déjà Vu: Base Model M2 MacBooks Have Slower SSDs Than M1 Predecessors
… The benchmarks show the M1 system is twice as fast in read speeds compared with the M2. In CrystalDiskMark, the M1 hit 6887MB/s, compared with 3462MB/s on the M2. For a 22GB file transfer test, the M2 system was 56 seconds slower than its M1 predecessor. …
VISC CPU 'virtual core' design emerges: Could this be the conceptual computing breakthrough we've been waiting for?
… Run times and measured clock speeds are shown below: Power consumption is listed as "about" the same, which doesn't tell us a great deal at this stage given that the VISC cores are in prototype. Overall performance, however, is excellent for the clock speed. …
Intel's Cascade Lake With DL Boost Goes Head to Head with Nvidia's Titan RTX in AI Tests
… Ice Lake Benchmarks Paint a Complex Picture for Intel’s Latest CPU Intel Reveals Clock Speeds, GPU Specs for 10nm Ice Lake Mobile SoCs
AMD's Richland APUs: 5GHz overclocks on tap, set the stage for Steamroller
… We re-tested that chip, just to confirm it -- our CPU wasn't stable above 4.4GHz without massive voltage increases. The chip's effective maximum speed, in other words, was just 200MHz, or 4.5%, above its Turbo Core. …