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Hot Chips 2023: Ventana’s Unconventional Veyron V1
The RISC-V scene has been heating up. SiFive’s designs have moved into higher power and performance envelopes. Alibaba’s T-HEAD division has been creating RISC-V chips in a bid to develop a viable...
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Hot Chips 2023: SiFive’s P870 Takes RISC-V Further
RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture, which means that anyone can create a core that understands RISC-V instructions without worrying about patents and licenses. SiFive is an important...
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Hot Chips 2023: Characterizing Gaming Workloads on Zen 4
AMD didn’t present a lot of new info about the Zen 4 core at their Hot Chips 2023 presentation. Uops.info has measured execution throughput and latency for instructions on Zen 4. We’ve dug deep into...
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Hot Chips 2023: Arm’s Neoverse V2
Arm has a long history in making low power CPUs, but have been trying to expand their reach into higher power and higher performance segments. At Hot Chips 2023, Arm presented the Neoverse V2, the...
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Arm at HC35 (2023): CSS-Genesis
It would be a rather large understatement to say that Arm has strong popularity in general purpose CPU cores. Arm has been going forward full speed with introducing successive generations of new...
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Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AMD’s 7900 XTX
Bethesda has a history of making demanding AAA games set in immersive open worlds. Starfield is the latest, and can best be described as Skyrim in space. Open world games put heavy demands on...
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Hot Chips 2023: AMD’s Phoenix SoC
AMD’s mobile and small form factor journey has been arduous. In the early 2010s, the company’s Bulldozer-derived CPU cores stood no chance as Intel made massive gains in power efficiency. Zen narrowed...
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Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy
Intel is a newcomer to the world of discrete graphics cards, and the company’s Xe architecture is driving its effort to establish itself alongside AMD and Nvidia. We’ve seen Xe variants serve in...
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