While AMD’s made big inroads towards efficiency with Ryzen, 7nm Ryzen 3000 parts are only just competitive with Intel’s latest on the older 14nm process. And once we get to even smaller transistor sizes, all kinds of weirdness, like quantum tunneling, starts to show up. As of today, no one has a commercially viable answer to these problems.

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The 9th Gen Intel Core i3-9100F is a quad-core chip that boosts to as much as 4.20GHz. The reason we opted for an Intel chip is: In comparison to the 1st and 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen parts, the 9th Gen lineup performs notably better in games thanks to the superior IPC and higher clocks. The 3rd Gen Matisse products are comparable but they cost more than 15K for the lower-end Ryzen 5 3600 which isn’t really required.

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The past few months haven’t been the best for Intel and their CPU business. With Ryzen’s 3rd generation of processors slowly ebbing away market shares and amidst declining share prices, Intel has been struggling to play the right cards. Every cloud has a silver lining and Intel seems to have spotted theirs in the horizon. With the 10nm Ice Lake-U CPUs finally shipping, the strain on small-core microprocessor production has been eased; the repercussions of which we consumers will enjoy.

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A Vietnamese shop has started listing the Asus Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs on its website. This indicates that we are inching closer to realizing the awaited launch of aftermarket Navi based cards. While the performance and value of these GPUs are commendable, the stock blower cooler on these cards leaves much to be desired. Performance-wise, the RX 5700 trades blows with the RTX 2060 Super while the 5700 XT does the same against the 2070Super.

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The spectacular rise of AMD’s Ryzen processors didn’t occur in a vacuum. Today, Intel presented an update on its quarterly revenue. Team Blue experienced a double-digit decline in revenue, at least in the data centre segment. Their PC segment saw growth, but just a marginal 1 percent.

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AMD’s Ryzen CPU architecture comprises 4-core clusters called CCX and each such CCX is interconnected by the Infinity Fabric(IF). A couple of weeks ago, we reported how a bump in IF frequency can greatly improve performance as it increases the speed of inter-CCX communication. Now, an unofficial CCX overclocking utility called “Work Tool” has been updated by renowned overclocker shamimo1978 to further extract performance by individually OCing a CCX.

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As the release of the 10nm Ice Lake CPUs from Intel draws near, the frequency of “leaked” benchmarks is gradually increasing. We spotted a Geekbench score of the same chip a while back that went viral and everyone started thinking that Intel was back on top (not quite though). Today, an SiSoft listing of the same Core i7-1065G7 processor has surfaced and although the scores are quite luke-warm, and like GB should be taken with a grain of salt.

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