This article evaluates the performance impact of NPS0 (Uniform Memory Access) mode on a dual-socket AMD EPYC 9575F system, provided by Verda (formerly DataCrunch). The analysis reveals that while NPS0…
A team at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Frontier supercomputer to run the largest-ever simulation of the observable universe, tracking over 4 trillion particles acr…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite is a new system-on-chip for Windows on ARM, featuring 18 CPU cores (12 "Prime" and 6 "Performance") with Prime cores clocking up to 5.0 GHz. The Oryon Gen 3 cores includ…
AMD's Strix Halo mobile processor uses a 32 MB Infinity Cache as a GPU last-level cache to balance high bandwidth demands with power efficiency, supported by a 2 MB L2 cache and 256 KB L1 per shader a…
The article evaluates the Infinity Cache in AMD's Strix Halo mobile chip (Ryzen AI MAX series), which combines a 16-core Zen 5 CPU with a 20-WGP RDNA 3.5 GPU and 32 MB of memory-side cache. The author…
AMD's Strix Halo is a high-performance chiplet APU announced at CES 2025, designed for mobile devices with a TDP range of 55W to 120W. It features up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, a 40-core RDNA 3.5 iGPU, an…