Although we’ve known for a long time that Intel planned to refresh its Arrow Lake CPUs, the 270K Plus and 250K Plus still posted results that were difficult to believe during our review period.
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Intel’s new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is going after the Ryzen 7 9700X with its $300 price point. We put the two head-to-head in a series of rounds based on our own testing to see which comes out on top.
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Intel tops $300 billion, its highest market capitalization in 25 years on AI, CPU, and foundry announcements momentum.
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Geekbench 6.7 comes with Intel BOT detection to ensure any runs using it are flagged. The developer argues BOT gives unrealistic performance bumps to select workloads that don’t represent real-world performance.
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The two tech giants are looking to co-develop custom chips, at a time when demand for CPUs is high due to a growing global shortage.
Although Google now has its own Arm-based Axion CPUs, Intel’s Xeon processors with custom IPUs will continue to be used for AI and other demanding workloads in Google’s data centers for years.
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Some high-end motherboards for Intel’s upcoming Nova Lake processors have been tipped to include a dual-lever retention mechanism called “2L-ILM.” We’ve seen something similar before with LGA 2011, but that a server platfo…
AMD has priced its Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 at $899, targeting power users who want top-tier performance without rebuilding. Dual 3D V-Cache and AM5 support promise gains, but real-world results still need to prove it.
AMD revealed its upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will launch for $899 on April 22, which marks a $200 price increase over the previous Ryzen 9 9950X3D.
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Bartlett Lake, Intel’s P-core only family of CPUs intended for edge and industrial use cases has been modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboards. At the moment, the flagship Core 9 273QPE with 12 Raptor Cove P-cores is po…