Tag: processor

Top 10 Best Laptops Under $500 – Get the Most Performance for Your Money

Karan S

Are you on a tight budget but need a best laptop to handle your everyday computing needs? Don’t worry, you don’t have to break the bank to get a high-performance laptop. We discuss the top 10 best laptops under $500 that deliver great laptop value and performance. We even have gaming laptops under $500. Importance of finding best laptops under $500 A good laptop can make a huge difference in your personal and professional life. For students, it’s a tool to handle research, assignments, and online classes. For remote workers…

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Discovering the Apple M1 chip

Karan S

Since the computers have made its way to the masses, intel has been the leading and only brand in its category for providing the brains for these machines. Its dominance was unparalleled and unmatchable. It crushed the sales figure. Breaking its own sales record year after a year. The introduction of multi-core and hyper-threading changed the game for intel. Later some other brands came along and tried to catch up, still to date, that effort is being made by various other brands. To name a few, AMD, QUALCOMM, and different…

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Apple iPad Pro 11 inch -Review

Karan S

The Apple iPad Pro 11-inch as you might’ve guessed is the younger sibling of the Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch, and is perhaps one of the best tablets to come from the company’s stable. It rings in with a slew of improvements, starting with its stupendous slim-bezel design and myriad hardware upgrades. While you can’t miss the fact that it is indeed an iPad, it does look like a stunning revamp of its previous iterations. One of the biggest changes in the Apple iPad Pro 11-inch is a lack of a…

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AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs: All we know

Karan S

In the war of CPUs, AMD has been hovering around at the second place for quite some time. And Ryzen series processors have been the real Hero on AMD’s side having achieved a hallmark in performance benchmarks. Although Intel leads some gaming areas, this leading position can easily be replaced with the advent of third generation Ryzen CPUs. Whats more exciting is the partnerships AMD has entered into with Google for their upcoming game streaming platform “Google Stadia” and Microsoft partnership for the next XBox gaming console. AMD has scored…

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Nvidia Tegra 4 Specs vs Tegra 3 vs Snapdragon S4 vs Exynos

Tarandeep Singh

Details of Nvidia Tegra 4 are now out in open and it proudly moves one giant-step ahead of Tegra 3. NVIDIA’s Tegra 4 is a powerhouse that promises 6x times the graphics performance of the Tegra 3. The Tegra 4 (codenamed Wayne) is on-par with other ARM CPU/GPUs SoCs like Snapdragon S4, Samsung Exynos. Tegra 4 GPU vs others Tegra 4 sports same fabrication technology like its competitors, taking the size of transistor down to 28nm, making them power-efficient even at higher clocks by large margin from Tegra 3’s 40nm…

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AMD Opteron 16-core PC Processor

Tarandeep Singh

AMD was already leading the number of cores in the PC market with 8-core Bulldozer processor for desktop and 12-core Opteron processor for Servers. What comes now makes Intell fall back generations behind, at least in the PC segment. The new 16-core processors from AMD are targeting enterprise servers for better performance with great power efficiency. AMD Opteron 6200 family of processors code-named Interlagos give enterprises as much as 84 percent better performance, 73 percent better memory bandwidth, and better power efficiency with half the power per core. They save about…

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Tilera 100-core Processor beats Intel Sandybridge

Tarandeep Singh

Tilera wants to put a direct competition to Intel’s current generation processor, Sandybridge, in the server environment. Their desperate chips are based on 40nm fabrication technology based on 64-bit architecture. Tilera Gx family have between 36 and 100 cores. The company believes that Intel’s x86 architecture is built to work for generic applications that are mostly limited to single cores and few threads, they cannot scale well beyond to levels where Intel cannot. Tilera Gx family targets high-throughput applications. Tile Gx family has 3 flavors 36-core Gx3036, the 64-core GX3064…

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TriCore Processors for Smartphones, Tablets

Tarandeep Singh

The most interesting part of today’s smartphones (more evidently android) had been becuase of the processor. Recently, Snapdragon announced 1.5Ghz DualCore Processor for Smartphones, targeted for the year-end. Looks like the future continues to creep toward us, Marvell announced the first tri-core low-power CPU for mobile phones and tablets.The Processor is capable of encoding and decoding FullHD 1080p video. Marvell has designed it using ARM v7 MP compatible system-on-a-chip (SoC) which promises better battery life. To save battery, it employs 3 cores - two 1.5GHz cores for processing power, and a third core optimized for…

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AMD announces Faster, Affordable 6Core, Quad, dual-Core Processors

Tarandeep Singh

AMD is slashing down prices for all its lineup of processors, as they approach one step closer to new architecttures. AMD has also introduced new microprocessors in six-core, quad-core and dual-core models. Today AMD announced speed bumps to nearly every processor in its desktop lineup. Everything from the dual-core Athlon II to the six-core Phenom II gets a new family member today. And they’re all very attractively priced. Most of these new Phenom II (6 core, quad core) and Athlon II don’t come with any major changes and hence we…

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World’s Fastest Processor - IBM 5.2Ghz

Tarandeep Singh

IBM has been working on it for 3 long years, and spent neat $1.5billion to produce what argumentally may become world’s Fastest Processor. All the work was done under the secret research lab aimed to improve the performance of its existing mainframe systems. The new Fastest processor would become the heart of IBM’s new zEnterprise clocked at 5.2GHz. Although, overclockers can challenge the “Fastest” processor with Liquid Nitrogen cooled systems, But, IBM’s processor is all about at native room temperatures with no special cooling requirements. This 5.2GHz chip is not about…

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AMD unveils 6 core processor named Istanbul

Tarandeep Singh

AMD on Monday introduced its six-core Opteron chip for servers, also known as Istanbul, and positioned it as a value play for data centers looking for an easy way to expand and power efficiency. For AMD, the early launch of Istanbul is a positive development in its battle with Intel. AMD, however, is months behind Intel’s Dunnington chip, a six-core server processor that launched in September. Leslie Sobon, vice president of product marketing at AMD, gave her pitch in a Webcast. Her message: Istanbul is an easier upgrade since its…

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Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 128 threads

Tarandeep Singh

Yesterday Intel revealed details of next-generation server processor, code-named Nehalem-EX, and it’s pretty cool! As you might have guessed, the Nehalem-EX is based on the Nehalem microarchitecture, which Intel debuted with the Xeon 5500 and Core i7 series of processors. While the Xeon 5500 and Core i7 processors feature 4 cores and 8 threads (thanks to Hyper-Threading), the Nehalem-EX series is kitted out with up to 8 cores and support for up to sixteen threads. To support the cores the Nehalem-EX has 24MB of cache. Intel Nehalem Architecture built on Intel’s…

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