#TBT Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was produced over 50 years ago, the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now. While the 8008 wasn't the first microprocessor, it was truly revolutionary, triggering a revolution and leading to the x86 architecture that dominated personal computers for decades to come.
In this GPU analysis, we look back across the last 4 generations of graphics cards to illustrate exactly why this generation has underperformed – and by how much – showing what each GPU should have cost.
Intel's long-running game performance analyzer has been updated with a fresh look and new features. Is it worth using? Let's dive in and see how we can use PresentMon to analyze our gaming PCs.
You've just bought a new gaming PC or a laptop for the office. Maybe you just upgraded your PC. You might be into overclocking. But do you know exactly what you've got? How well is that PC actually working? We've compiled a list of 21 programs that are great for analyzing and benchmarking your devices.
How much difference can L3 cache make with just 4 CPU cores active? We've gone back to test a variety of CPUs checking for frequency, number of cores and L3 cache to draw some conclusions.
Take the computer know-how, the love of games, and the interest in components, and mix them all together. It's a perfect recipe for diving into benchmarking. In this article, we'll explain how you can use games to benchmark your PC and what you can do to analyze the results.
The first 3D graphics cards appeared 25 years ago and since then their power and complexity have grown at a scale greater than any other microchip found in a PC. In going from one million to billions of transistors, smaller dies, and consuming more power, the capabilities of these behemoths is immeasurably greater, but what can we learn about efficiency?
