Category: processors

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 732G promises more power for midrange phones

Post author By Randall
Post date August 31, 2020
Categories In gear, Mobile, News, processors, Qualcomm, qualcomm snapdragon, Smartphone, snapdragon, snapdragon 732g, Tech

[ad_1] Compared to the 730G, the Snapdragon 732G uses a slightly faster Kryo 470 CPU (tuned to 2.3GHz compared to last year’s 2.2GHz). While they both use the Adreno 618 GPU, Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 732G offers “improved graphics rendering.” Both SoCs also use the X15 LTE modem that can hit up to 800 Mbps. […]

Intel is losing against AMD

Post author By Randall
Post date November 28, 2019
Categories In amd, cpus, gear, i9-10980xe, i9-9980xe, Intel, personal computing, personalcomputing, processors, ryzen 9, Tech, threadripper, zen 2

[ad_1] A rapid rise Ever since AMD launched the Zen architecture just over three years ago, it has progressed at a relentless pace. At the time, Intel’s $1,100 8-core i7-6900 seemed like it had all the cores you’d ever need. However, AMD moved the goalposts, unveiling the 8-core Ryzen 7 1800 at a much lower […]

AMD says its chips are immune to crippling new vulnerabilities

Post author By Randall
Post date May 20, 2019
Categories In amd, gear, Intel, mitigation, personal computing, personalcomputing, processors, ridl, store-to-leakforwarding, Tech, vulnerabilities, zombieload

[ad_1] Continuing with the bad news for Intel, Linux-specialist site Phoronix ran tests showing that the patches can significantly impact performance. Intel machines ran 16 percent slower on average with the new updates installed and hyper-threading enabled, compared to a 3 percent hit on AMD chips. To make matters worse, Apple and Google have advised […]