Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Propelled by average enthusiasts in their shared quest to defeat COVID-19, the Folding@Home network is now pushing out 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. To put that in perspective, that's twice as fast as Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, making the network faster than any known supercomputer. It's also faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world, combined. It's impressive that the Folding@Home network is now more than twice as powerful as...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Propelled by average enthusiasts in their shared quest to defeat COVID-19, the Folding@Home network is now pushing out 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. To put that in perspective, that's twice as fast as Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, making the network faster than any known supercomputer. It's also faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world, combined. It's impressive that the Folding@Home network is now more than twice as powerful as...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Till Kottmann, a Swiss IT consultant, posted on Twitter a link to a file sharing service today that contains what an anonymous source claims is a portion of Intel's crown jewels: A 20GB folder of confidential Intel intellectual property. The leaker dubbed the release the "Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release ;)." Update: Intel has responded to Tom's Hardware with an official statement:"We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Till Kottmann, a Swiss IT consultant, posted on Twitter a link to a file sharing service today that contains what an anonymous source claims is a portion of Intel's crown jewels: A 20GB folder of confidential Intel intellectual property. The leaker dubbed the release the "Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release ;)." Update: Intel has responded to Tom's Hardware with an official statement:"We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Our CPU benchmarks performance hierarchy ranks current and previous-gen Intel and AMD processors based on performance, including all of the . Below the CPU ranking charts and tables, this guide also gives you a basic introduction to CPU benchmarking and includes a list of commonly-used CPU benchmark utilities.Your CPU greatly affects overall performance and, to many, is a computer's most important component. CPU benchmarks comparisons help us sort out the...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Our CPU benchmarks performance hierarchy ranks current and previous-gen Intel and AMD processors based on performance, including all of the . Below the CPU ranking charts and tables, this guide also gives you a basic introduction to CPU benchmarking and includes a list of commonly-used CPU benchmark utilities.Your CPU greatly affects overall performance and, to many, is a computer's most important component. CPU benchmarks comparisons help us sort out the...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Famous overclocker Hicookie has With 5 of the processor's 8 cores deactivated, he was able to use that extra headroom to hit a whopping 7.314-GHz on the first core with help from liquid nitrogen cooling and a high-end Aorus motherboard.Hicookie is sponsored by Gigabyte, which issued a press release a few hours after the record posted to HWBot, stating that he used the motherboard to reach this clock speed. Intended to compete with the the Tachyon but it doesn't...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Famous overclocker Hicookie has With 5 of the processor's 8 cores deactivated, he was able to use that extra headroom to hit a whopping 7.314-GHz on the first core with help from liquid nitrogen cooling and a high-end Aorus motherboard.Hicookie is sponsored by Gigabyte, which issued a press release a few hours after the record posted to HWBot, stating that he used the motherboard to reach this clock speed. Intended to compete with the the Tachyon but it doesn't...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Update 5/4/2020 8:30am PT: Linux publication has carried out preliminary testing on the impact of disabling Predictive Store Forwarding. AMD hasn't provided any patches, therefore, the author compiled his own kernel with the feature disabled.Phoronix's results revealed a negligible performance hit when disabling Predictive Store Forwarding. Across a suite of 100 tests, the geometric mean was less than a half percent in terms of performance loss.We've reached out to...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Update 5/4/2020 8:30am PT: Linux publication has carried out preliminary testing on the impact of disabling Predictive Store Forwarding. AMD hasn't provided any patches, therefore, the author compiled his own kernel with the feature disabled.Phoronix's results revealed a negligible performance hit when disabling Predictive Store Forwarding. Across a suite of 100 tests, the geometric mean was less than a half percent in terms of performance loss.We've reached out to...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Graphics cards, more specifically Nvidia's (CMP), are the new commodity among Chinese smugglers. reported that the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department busted a smuggling ring and recovered up to 300 CMP 30HX graphics cards.The story seems like it came out of a movie. The Chinese authorities detected a suspicious fishing boat anchored just outside the Hong Kong International Airport. The sea smugglers were loading boxes from the fishing boat to a speedboat at 2...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Graphics cards, more specifically Nvidia's (CMP), are the new commodity among Chinese smugglers. reported that the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department busted a smuggling ring and recovered up to 300 CMP 30HX graphics cards.The story seems like it came out of a movie. The Chinese authorities detected a suspicious fishing boat anchored just outside the Hong Kong International Airport. The sea smugglers were loading boxes from the fishing boat to a speedboat at 2...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Chinese scientists have started to test a prototype of locally developed exascale supercomputer using convolutional neural networks (CNN) AI workloads. As reported by  the Tianhe-3 machine runs Armv8-based Phytium 2000+ (FTP) and the Matrix 2000+ (MTP) processors that were primarily designed for traditional supercomputing with full FP64 precision.  Supercomputing and artificial intelligence are poised to become important competitive...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Chinese scientists have started to test a prototype of locally developed exascale supercomputer using convolutional neural networks (CNN) AI workloads. As reported by  the Tianhe-3 machine runs Armv8-based Phytium 2000+ (FTP) and the Matrix 2000+ (MTP) processors that were primarily designed for traditional supercomputing with full FP64 precision.  Supercomputing and artificial intelligence are poised to become important competitive...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .AMD's Cinderella story continued today with a report from Mercury Research, one of the chip industry's premier market analyst firms, that indicates AMD had reached 18.3% of the overall x86 share and 19.7% of the client market. That's the company's highest share since the fourth quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2012, respectively. The company also broke its all-time record for notebook market share. We have the full breakdown below, including the company's...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .AMD's Cinderella story continued today with a report from Mercury Research, one of the chip industry's premier market analyst firms, that indicates AMD had reached 18.3% of the overall x86 share and 19.7% of the client market. That's the company's highest share since the fourth quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2012, respectively. The company also broke its all-time record for notebook market share. We have the full breakdown below, including the company's...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Intel announced today in its Q2 2020 earnings release that it has now delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months relative to its previously-planned release date, undoubtedly resulting in wide-ranging delays to the company's roadmaps that could cause the company to lose ranks in our Hierarchy. Intel's press release also says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Intel announced today in its Q2 2020 earnings release that it has now delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months relative to its previously-planned release date, undoubtedly resulting in wide-ranging delays to the company's roadmaps that could cause the company to lose ranks in our Hierarchy. Intel's press release also says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Although there are reports of to fabricate their chips, a report today points to the partnership a temporary one. According to unnamed sources, TSMC doesn't consider Intel a long-term customer and is, therefore, unlikely to build additional fabrication capacity to meet the contracts.The sources said that TSMC sees itself more as a "rescuer" than a long-term supplier. Intel typically manufactures its own silicon for its , rather than jumping to third-parties for...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Although there are reports of to fabricate their chips, a report today points to the partnership a temporary one. According to unnamed sources, TSMC doesn't consider Intel a long-term customer and is, therefore, unlikely to build additional fabrication capacity to meet the contracts.The sources said that TSMC sees itself more as a "rescuer" than a long-term supplier. Intel typically manufactures its own silicon for its , rather than jumping to third-parties for...WW…