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Intel Isn’t Adding 3D V-Cache to Its Consumer CPUs Anytime Soon
AMD came across a hack for greatly improved gaming performance—stack multiple layers of L3 cache for improved performance. It looks like we won’t be seeing an Intel equivalent of 3D V-Cache on consumer chips anytime soon, though. Intel is set to challenge AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology in the data center market, but gamers hoping for a similar boost in their…
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Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass
The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD’s older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre’ mitigations. The vulnerabilities impact Intel’s 12th, 13th, and 14th chip generations for consumers and the 5th and 6th generation of Xeon processors for servers, along with AMD’s Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2 processors.…
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Windows 11 Update Brings Performance Boost to Ryzen CPUs
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update apparently gives a substantial performance increase for AMD’s Ryzen CPUs. This is particularly true for the older Zen 4 and newer Zen 5 Ryzen CPUs, as multiple tests have seen as much as 10 percent increase in performance. According to hardware testing conducted by Hardware Unboxed and KitGuru, the 24H2 update gives an average…
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How to install ASUS BIOS (UEFI) update to fix Intel 13th and 14th CPUs issue on Windows 11
ASUS is testing a BIOS (UEFI) update for its Z290 motherboards to address stability problems with Intel 13th and 14th Gen Core (Raptor Lake) processors. The new microcode version 129 hasn’t been designed to fix processors that have already been affected by exposure to elevated voltages. Instead, this update should help to prevent the chips that are still in good…
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