AMD's 7800X3D and 7950X3D CPUs reign supreme in the gaming realm, not solely due to their core count or clock speeds, but primarily owing to their abundant cache. CPU cache refers to a small yet ...

RAM and cache memory are both fast, volatile memory technologies that play a pivotal role in computing. So what's the key difference between the two? To borrow an adage from real estate: "Location, ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D set new benchmarks in gaming performance with its impressive 96 MB L3 V-Cache. But how does memory latency factor into this powerhouse's performance? Our latest analysis dives ...

An experiment has shown that using AMD Ryzen processors' 3D V-Cache as a RAM disc is possible. As you might've guessed, such a RAM disc is extremely fast, offering sequential read and write speeds ...

When it comes to gaming laptops and the hardware that powers them, the GPU and CPU are often the focal point for overall performance. Although the GPU and CPU are no doubt important, there’s one vital ...

The Intel Nova Lake leaks are coming thick and fast today. Earlier, Nick reported on the apparently outsized power requirements of the dual-CPU-die variant of Nova Lake with 52 cores. Now come claimed ...

AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X3D went on sale globally today at $329 — bringing the same 96MB stacked L3 cache that made the Ryzen 7 7800X3D the dominant gaming processor of recent years to PC builders who have ...

It's pretty ironic, if you think about it. AMD makes desktop CPUs, then turns them into BGA chips for the high-end mobile market. Laptop vendors don't buy as many of those CPUs as AMD would like, and ...