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Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD’s Zen 4 3D V-Cache CPUs are true marvels of modern CPU performance. They offer exceptional gaming performance on par with the absolute best that Intel has to offer, and yet do it at a fraction of the power draw and heat output. They lose out on productivity performance, but that’s what the non-X3D AMD CPUs are for. And if you want all-rounders, but don’t mind high thermal design power (TDP) ratings, then Intel’s offerings are always an option. But out of the latest generation of X3D…

Modern processors keep getting hotter, and it seems like CPU coolers just keep getting bigger to accommodate them. There are some truly monstrous modern CPU coolers — especially passive models designed to operate without any fans at all. It makes you wonder what is the biggest CPU cooler ever made? Is it one of these latest modern monstrosities? Or has a cooler from the past beat them to the punch? I did a little deep dive into CPU cooler history to find some truly massive coolers — and one that reigns supreme to…

Qualcomm, the chipmaker whose SoCs power nearly a third of all smartphones globally, is working on its next generation flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The company has now provided an update on the SoC, that will likely power upcoming high-end Android phones. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip will launch later this year in October at the Snapdragon Summit. This lines up with Qualcomm's usual release cycle for its flagship mobile platform. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which powers high-end Android smartphones like the…

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC last year in October at the Snapdragon Summit hosted in Hawaii, and we have now learned that this year's Snapdragon Summit will also be held in October, where the chipmaker will introduce the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. This revelation comes from Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire, who, in a video posted on X from the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC), said the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will use the Oryon CPU. You can watch the two-minute video below. Before announcing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4,…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you want a midrange processor in 2024, two of the best options available are AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X and Intel’s Core i5-14600K. These $300-ish processors offer lots of cores for high performance computing and gaming, as well as 5GHz+ clock speeds. They aren’t quite as powerful as the very top chips, but they are still blazingly fast, and have more modest power demands than their higher-end siblings. But which is the best? If you’re looking to buy or build a new PC in 2024, one of these…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you’re buying or building an ultra-budget PC, then two of the best CPU options around $100 are the AMD Ryzen 5 5600, and the Intel Core i3-14100F. These chips come from two different manufacturers from different generations, and are built on very different designs. But which is best? It depends what you want to do with your new PC, and how strict you’re being in terms of budget. Here’s how the Ryzen 5 5600 and Core i3-14100F compare, so you can make a smart purchasing decision for you.…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you’re buying or building a new computer in 2024, your two main CPU choices are AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series or Intel’s 13th and 14th generations. Two of the best budget CPUs from those two lines are the AMD Ryzen 5 7600 and Intel’s Core i5-14400. Both are built on the latest processes and architectures from each company, and come with plenty of cores and high clock speeds. They’re also far more power efficient than the top chips. To help you decide which is the best CPU for you, let’s take…

Samsung Foundry, Samsung Electronics' division that fabricates semiconductor chips, has announced its collaboration with Arm (Arm Holdings PLC) for optimized fabrication of next-generation Cortex-X series CPU cores. This collaboration will improve the performance and power efficiency of CPU cores using Arm's latest Cortex-X series designs and fabricated using Samsung Foundry's GAA process. Arm and Samsung Foundry want to optimize Cortex-X CPUs faster Arm Holdings is a UK-based firm that designs all the basic CPU…

sankai/Getty ImagesSamsung said on Tuesday that it will offer Arm Cortex-X CPU that has been optimized to Samsung Foundry's latest gate-all-around (GAA) process node.This collaboration was the first of more to come between the pair that will enable the development of a "new class of SoCs" with generative AI capabilities, the South Korean tech giant said.Samsung Foundry is Samsung's contract chip production business unit and GAA is its most advanced process node so far that is used to make the latest chips for its…

Intel Core i5-13600K Best Intel CPU for the 4070 and 4070 Ti Jump to details AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Best budget CPU for the RTX 4070 and 4070 Ti Jump to details Show 1 more item The Nvidia RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti are among the best graphics…