AMD’s HD 6950 vs RX 6900 XT: What Does Adding 50 Do?
Note the publish day of this article. There will be a proper one on Terascale 3 later on, don’t worry. But for now, happy April Fools Day! Prestige is everything for computer hardware manufacturers. A...
View ArticleLoongson’s 3A5000: China’s Best Shot?
We at Chips and Cheese have covered two Chinese CPU architectures: Zhaoxin’s x86 compatible Lujiazui architecture found in the KX-6000 series of CPUs and Phytium’s ARM compatible FT663 architecture...
View ArticleCodecs for the 4K Era: HEVC, AV1, VVC and Beyond
This article was written in March 2023. At the time of writing, the encoders we used were still in active development. As codec standards and encoders evolve, some of the information may become...
View ArticleAMD’s 7950X3D: Zen 4 Gets VCache
Compute performance has been held back by memory performance for decades, with DRAM performance falling even further behind with every year. Caches compensate for this by trying to keep frequently...
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