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Much has been written about the performance of Arm-based processors exceeding that of x86-64 CPUs, but depending on your perspective, that fully hasn’t come to pass. There are Apple’s M-series processors that do perform competitively in many tasks, along with an array of data center-focused products that emphasize power efficiency, but ultimately the overall performance crown has generally remained with Intel or AMD, depending on the specific task in question. Is that going to change with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite and its Oryon core? Quite possibly. We first wrote about the Snapdragon X Elite back in October of last … Read more

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. The newest installment of one of the best-selling first-person-shooter franchises features Black Ops veteran Frank Woods and his team as they are branded traitors and hunted by the CIA. Along with the high-octane campaign is the acclaimed Multiplayer mode featuring 16 new maps at launch, in addition to the return of Classic Prestige. Players can also dive into the fan-favorite Zombies mode and take on hordes of the undead across two brand-new maps at launch in a return to the Round-Based format gamers know and love.     Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 … Read more

AMD announced this month that several new plug-ins are now available for its fast and easy rendering engine, AMD Radeon ProRender. Optimized for AMD Radeon PRO and Radeon RX graphics cards, AMD Radeon ProRender is built on open standards and works on any GPU that supports OpenCL 1.2 and on any CPU. It uses open industry standards to enable creative professionals to produce incredible photorealistic images. Earlier this year, AMD released a new version of the AMD Radeon ProRender 2 SDK on GPUOpen which added many new features such as Cryptomatte AOVs, Deformation Motion Blur, Subsurface Scattering, and more. Last … Read more

There can’t really be any doubt at this point: AI is going to change all of our lives, and there’s no going back from here. Still, there’s quite a bit of debate over exactly how it’s going to happen. If you listen to hardware vendors like AMD and Intel, they’ll tell you that you absolutely need to upgrade your business’ computers to brand-new “AI PCs,” or PCs with built-in AI acceleration. That’s the goal of slides like this: Whether you think generative AI is ready for prime time or not, there are plenty of salient arguments for the idea that … Read more

Introduced as Intel’s solution for both gamers and content creators, the new Arc-A graphics products are, the company says, “more than another piece of hardware in your PC” they are “your portal to play and create” on PC. Intel ended March 2022 with the announcement that the company is more ambitious when it comes to graphics, as it first suggested back in August 2021, when the product was first announced. Intel highlighted now the Arc A-Series mobile graphics family, the first laptops with Arc GPUs, and the Arc graphics platform of hardware, software and services that will enable high-performance graphics … Read more

Simulations play a critical role in advancing science and engineering, especially in the vast field of fluid dynamics. However, high-fidelity fluid simulations require extensive computational resources, often constraining practical applications. Accurately simulating complex flows can take weeks of computational effort, slowing down advancements in critical fields such as aerospace and environmental engineering.  Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) by addressing these challenges. ML algorithms enable researchers to use large-scale datasets and create models that mimic the real-world behavior of complex flow problems with a markedly reduced computational cost. One promising ML approach in fluid dynamics involves Fourier … Read more

Intel’s Meteor Lake processors represented a major step forward for the company. As Intel’s first step into chiplet (or “tile”) fabrication for client chips, Meteor Lake brought big improvements in efficiency, graphics, and AI performance for the company’s mobile processors. Arrow Lake is on track to do that for desktops at the end of this year, but that’s not what today’s news is about. Today, we’re talking about Intel’s forthcoming Lunar Lake mobile Core Ultra processor line-up that is due to hit sometime in Q3 this year. Intel says that Lunar Lake represents the “Next Gen of AI PC”. Well, … Read more

Having completed extensive benchmark testing of the Threadripper PRO 5000, performed in real-world content creation applications, Puget Systems will begin shipping its custom workstations in July. One of the few vendors with early access to the new Threadrippers from AMD, Puget Systems has now released the results of extensive testing of the Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series across multiple platforms, including tests for peak performance for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Davinci Resolve, and many more critical applications. This was only possible due to Puget Systems close working relationship with AMD, which made it possible for Puget Labs to conduct extensive … Read more

A certification badge will be associated with some of the workstations already recommended by Puget Systems, to make it easy for professionals to get an optimal workflow experience. Following the recent news that Puget Systems will have, next July, workstations based on AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series, it’s now time to announce the ‘Puget Labs Certification Program’. With this announcement, the Puget Systems Labs team will be signifying select Recommended Systems, which are heavily based on Puget Labs testing and expertise, with a certification badge and brief text description on how and why they have been certified by the … Read more

Arm Holdings plc, or “arm”, was once considered a vendor of processors designed for embedded and low-power systems, but those days are well past at this point. Having conquered mobile some time ago, processors based on Arm’s Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) are now challenging the supremacy of the long-dominant x86-64 architecture on every front: laptops, servers, and even client desktops. The majority of these processors are from other arm licensees, like Qualcomm, which is what makes Arm’s ISA a bit different from the x86 ISA. Where Intel and AMD have a stranglehold on the x86-64 instruction set, Arm … Read more