DDR5 is known to be rarer and harder to come by than some GPUs at the moment. Therefore, the question arose for me: Does an Intel CPU of the 12th generation, codename Alder Lake, really need the new memory standard, or is the performance with DDR4 on a similar level? Alder Lake now also uses two separate memory controllers (IMCs) for DDR4, one for [...]
Today we would like to anticipate one of the upcoming launches in January and test the really interesting Intel Core i5-12400 in gaming (for now). Of course, there will be a follow-up with real application benchmarks soon. Even though I’m not under NDA, I’ll be fair and deliberately use an emulated CPU and none of the available [...]
Badly fitting coolers, too low performance with actually good waterblocks and bent CPUs – meanwhile not only the feedback of the readers is piling up, but also very similar reports from the board partners, cooler manufacturers and system integrators. Based on my own experiences, I went in search of clues and first tried to sort out [...]
AVX-512 was a hotly discussed topic around the launch of the new Intel Alder Lake CPUs. At first it was said that the P cores supported it in principle, but in order to be able to offer a common instruction set with the E cores, the feature would be disabled at the silicon level. Later, however, motherboard manufacturers would have found the [...]
Good CPU cooling has always been important, but with Intel’s new, very heat-sensitive Alder Lake CPUs even more so. Especially if you turn the clock dial yourself, a few degrees Celsius more or less can mean several hundred megahertz more or less stable clock speed in return. All the more important is a good cooler with the right contact [...]
The race for ever faster CPUs and above all GPUs is now producing such blossoms that even existing standards have to be softened or modified for the new energy waste offensive that soon every end consumer will have to save up for a portable nuclear power plant if they don’t want to be in debt with the energy supplier well into old age. To [...]
What actually happens when you let the two fastest CPUs compete with the GeForce RTX 3090 instead of the Radeon RX 6900XT? We noticed some amazing things and therefore we measured and cross-tested several times. The result is reproducible, but that does not make it any more comprehensible. But it at least explains why the power consumption [...]
The new memory controller with DDR5 support is known to be one of the biggest changes in the 12th generation Intel Core CPUs. But DDR4 is also still supported – assuming an appropriate motherboard – and there have been some changes under the hood here as well. Perfect conditions to let Comet Lake, Rocket Lake and Alder Lake compete [...]
I had already discussed the behavior of the new Intel CPUs on different motherboards a few days ago, but the whole thing didn’t leave me alone in the end. The measured differences, especially on the OC boards, were big enough not to book them as measurement tolerance and also reproducible, but then not big enough to explain the partly very [...]
Are you still amazed about the so different power consumption values at the different launch reviews of Intel’s Alder Lake? In the meantime I have the data of a second motherboard model and I could hardly find any deviations to my measurements. The second board is an MSI MAG Z690 Carbon Wifi, which positions itself one price and performance [...]
So today I’ll get serious and show you where Alder Lake S can really score aside from colorful gaming pixels. Gaming what? Completely overrated if you look at at least some of today’s results. Because the true strengths of the new architecture will hardly be seen while playing games, because today it’s getting faster in a [...]
Intel in fast AND economical? Yes, since the 12th. Generation, i.e. Alder Lake S, this also fits together again. And so today’s text effectively becomes the narrative for a kind of turnaround, for which Intel can really only be congratulated if it is objectively tested and everything is properly classified. Since this was connected with some [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
I have something very interesting for my readers today and I am taking over the article from my friend Usman Pirzada more or less in the original, so I have also put him as the actual author. After all, it’s his work and not mine. Surely a simple quote and the usual paraphrasing of a news story wouldn’t have been fair enough there [...]
Even before the launch of Windows 11 on October 5, it had become apparent that AMD's Ryzen processors were no longer performing as well as they used to in Winsows 10 in certain scenarios. The core allocation under Windows 11 in the scheduler showed weaknesses and also the CPU cache was no longer optionally addressed and utilized. According to [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
