NVIDIA’s Enterprise
Well, I guess that this will be the first non-welcome post on this website and the topic of this piece is NVIDIA Corporation, specifically the next-gen server GPU and more broadly the NVIDIA...
View ArticleIntel’s HEDT Roadmap
Long the king of High-End Desktop (HEDT) computing, Intel’s once undisputed position has become a much more awkward one since the arrival of a resurgent AMD and its Threadripper CPUs. X299 is Dead!...
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CTR: A Review and a Warning (updated)
Update 5/2/21 1340 GMT: 1usmus himself has replied to our findings; we have included his reply and some points after the conclusion at the end of the article. Article has been edited for clarity. What...
View ArticleAMD’s Past and Future CPUs (Formal Retraction)
Editor’s Note: With the release of our Zen 4 article, I issued a formal retraction of this article. When I originally wrote this article I had a very different vision of what Chips and Cheese would...
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Lowering the BAR: AMD’s 6700 XT launch and the Importance of Disclosure
On March 3rd, 2021 AMD officially announced the 6700 XT to the world. Along with it came the usual first-party performance graphs, most of which showed it matching or even beating NVIDIA’s RTX...
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Exploring CPU Core to Core Latency and the Role that Locks Play
This article has been a LONG time coming since our article on Rocket Lake, where we talked about core to core latency for the first time here on Chips and Cheese. This is a follow up article...
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Measuring Zen 3’s Bottlenecks
Zen 3 is one of the fastest CPU cores currently on the market; that isn’t up for debate.However, even the fastest CPU cores have bottlenecks and today we are talking about the bottlenecks that Zen 3...
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The Weird and Wacky World of VIA, the 3rd player in the “Modern” x86 market
Header Image credit goes to Martijn Boer. In the world of x86 CPUs there are two major players, Intel and AMD. However, there is one (well two but that will be expanded on later) other company that...
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The Weird and Wacky World of VIA Part 2: Zhaoxin’s not quite Electric Boogaloo
In Part 1 of this piece we talked about the third x86 design house, VIA and more specifically VIA’s most recent commercially available architecture Isaiah. Today we are talking about the joint venture...
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Zhaoxin Part 3: A Sort of Anti-Climax
I’ll be blunt here, this part will seem like an anti-climax compared to Part 2 of this series but I hope to nicely wrap up this series with this as the conclusion piece of what we know about how the...
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Gracemont: Revenge of the Atom Cores
This article can be considered a part 2 to our Golden Cove article because today we are looking at the other core in Alder Lake, Gracemont. Which is in my opinion more interesting than Golden Cove...
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AMD’s V-Cache Tested: The Latency Teaser
If you were like us and were surprised that AMD announced 3D V-Cache back in August and wondered how AMD would be able to pull this off, well, we have a teaser article for you today regarding...
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Deep Diving Zen 3 V-Cache
This is the deeper dive of AMD’s V-Cache that we teased with our short latency article and we will be covering a little more on the latency front along with the bandwidth behavior of V-Cache and the...
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VIA Part 4 – A Deep Dive into Centaur’s Last CPU Core: CNS
The x86-64 instruction set powers the vast majority of PCs, consoles, and servers. However, the number of x86 licensees has always been small, so it’s important to keep track of the few that are left....
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Graviton 3: First Impressions
In late May of 2022, AWS released Graviton 3 to the general public. Graviton 3 was the first ARM CPU to introduce the SVE instruction set to a widely accessible server CPU. Before Graviton 3’s general...
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Tachyum: Too Good to be True?
Author’s Note: Since the publication of this article, we have since had an interview with Tachyum and nearly all of the architectural analysis done in this article is outdated but it will be kept up...
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Microbenchmarking Intel’s Arc A770
Intel’s Arc GPUs represent the company’s third attempt at taking on the dedicated GPU market. The company’s first attempt, the i740, tried to use the then-new AGP interface to store textures in system...
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AMD’s Zen 4 Part 1: Frontend and Execution Engine
AMD’s Zen 4 architecture has been hotly anticipated by many in the tech sphere; as a result many rumors were floating around about its performance gains prior to its release. In February 2021 we...
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AMD’s Zen 4, Part 2: Memory Subsystem and Conclusion
Please go through part 1 of our Zen 4 coverage, if you haven’t done so already. This article picks up where the previous one left off. To summarize, Zen 4 has made several moves in the frontend and...
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Loongson’s 3A5000: China’s Best Shot?
We at Chips and Cheese have covered two Chinese CPU architectures: Zhaoxin’s x86 compatible Lujiazui architecture found in the KX-6000 series of CPUs and Phytium’s ARM compatible FT663 architecture...
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