Enlarge / An 8th generation Coffee Lake processor. (credit: Mark Walton) While Intel’s naming scheme for its processors is often best described as “obtuse,” there have been some patterns that the company seemed to follow. For desktop processors, the i7 branding denotes chips with hyperthreading enabled, running two threads on each core. i5-branded parts had […]
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Report: Xbox One X benchmarks detail 4K capabilities
When we got our first hands-on (and eyes-on) experience with the Xbox One X at E3 last month, we weren’t exactly in awe of the improved resolutions and graphical effects on display. Now, though, we’re starting to see initial reports of just how “the most powerful console ever” improves raw performance on games originally designed for the […]
Early Snapdragon 835 benchmarks show mixed results from semi-custom design
(credit: Qualcomm) When it announced the Snapdragon 835, Qualcomm promised that the latest in its family of ARM systems-on-chips would boost performance by 27 percent with a 40 percent reduction in power consumption. The first early benchmarks of the processor that Qualcomm doesn’t want us to call a processor have been run and the results […]