… The house that Zen built says "the picture is clear: The density positioned as future-looking is already being exceeded with standard infrastructure available now." Harsh words for NVIDIA's new server CPU, which in Phoronix 's directed testing was slightly faster than AMD's extant Zen 5-based parts… …
… As Intel itself notes in this slide, CPU utilization of around 40% is probably more typical of the kind of workload chips like this will experience. In that case, Intel claims to beat AMD's chip by 30% in overall performance per watt, while the two lines seem to converge as CPU utilization goes up. …
… In CPU-focused benchmarks, for example, the DGX Spark with the same GB10 chip generally trails AMD's Zen 5 and Intel's Arrow Lake, to say nothing of the M5 Pro. The CPUs aren't bad, but they're not world-beating. …
… This processor is an 18-core CPU built on a 3nm process. …
… The differences between modes are tangible, particularly under extended CPU or GPU loads. …
… Samsung was able to give the S26 Ultra’s 50MP 5x telephoto a larger aperture in a smaller footprint by using ALoP All Lenses on Prism folded optics, which it developed in-house, instead of the W-shaped tri-prism or L-shaped periscope telephoto setup. …