by Rafael Coelho | Aug 7, 2017 | CPU
Recently, Intel launched a new high-end platform, the X299, that uses the new LGA2066 socket. The new CPUs for this platform are codenamed Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X, and so far the highest-end model is the Core i9-7900X, which has 10 physical cores, 20 threads, 3.3...
by Rafael Coelho | May 11, 2017 | CPU
We tested the Ryzen 7 1700, the entry CPU from AMD’s new Ryzen 7 lineup. It has eight cores, 16 threads, 3.0 GHz base clock, 3.7 GHz turbo clock, TDP of 65 W, and uses the new AM4 socket. Check it out! After several years, AMD finally launched a new generation...
by Rafael Coelho | Apr 18, 2017 | CPU
The performance of the new Ryzen 7 CPU from AMD has beed causing a lot of controversy: it is faster than its competitor in some tests, but it is slower in other ones, and several theories have been raised about the reason why. A popular theory says that disabling the...
by Rafael Coelho | Apr 4, 2017 | CPU
We tested the Ryzen 7 1700X, a new CPU from AMD, based on the Zen (Summit Ridge) architecture. It has eight cores, 16 threads, 3.4 GHz base clock, 3.8 GHz turbo clock, TDP of 95 W, and uses the new AM4 socket. Check it out! After several years, AMD finally launched a...
by Rafael Coelho | Apr 3, 2017 | CPU
The Core i7-7700K is the most high-end seventh-generation Core i CPUs from Intel, based on the Kaby Lake architecture, with four cores, Hyper-Threading, and 4.5 GHz maximum clock. Let’s test it and check how faster than other models from the same generation it...