Questions & Réponses

Is it just Tmax (ie chip stays at max turbo as long as CPU isn’t too hot) or is it also measuring power draw or other variables? Asking because I’m pondering building a workstation with one of those cheap v2/v3/v4 Xeons on ebay. Would be great if I can stay near max turbo just by…

The usual questions spring to mind: Will it support currently existing motherboards (300/400/500 series chipsets)? What kind of IPC increase are we talking about? Will AMD manage to squeeze more frequencies? What node will it use? What will be its TDP? Will it support AVX512 instructions? When and if we can expect Ryzen 4000 CPUs…

Just curious. I have a friend, still on Athlon II X4 that I gave him as an upgrade CPU… like years ago. (I guess he’s happy with it still? Tried to upgrade him, have given him another machine, he hasn’t used it yet.) Anyone else still using something around this vintage, as their primary or…

I figured I’d make once since the Coffee Lake post is too long. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2019-March/191523.html Lunix drivers suggest there will be only GT1 and GT2 versions of Comet Lake and not the GT3 (although curiously there’s a Whiskey Lake GT3). So perhaps the 6 core 28 W U rumor was true…

I’ve searched the forums and there doesn’t seem to be one? It would be good to have a separate post for the upcoming processor series. Personally, I am waiting for more information (leaks) of 6C/12T Coffee Lake-S and I’m secretly hoping for (but not expecting one until Ice Lake) an 8C/16T part for the mainstream…