chipsandcheese

chipsandcheese, 10 months ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

In today's article, we are looking at one of Intel's most successful architectures, Sandy Bridge which was so successful that it gave Intel effectively a monopoly in the x86 CPU market for years after.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/08/04/sandy-bridge-setting-intels-modern-foundation/

chipsandcheese, 10 months ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on AMD's CDNA2 architecture in the form of MI210. We look at the cache hierarchy, math throughput, link bandwidth, a couple of macro-benchmarks, and more.

Hope, y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/07/27/amds-radeon-instinct-mi210-gcn-lives-on/

chipsandcheese, 10 months ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is looking at the last custom core from Qualcomm, Kryo, where we look at the BPU, ROB, and more core structures. Along with comparing it to the contemporary Cortex A72.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/07/12/kryo-qualcomms-last-in-house-mobile-core/

chipsandcheese, 11 months ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Nvidia's A100 and H100 GPUs where we look at the bandwidth of the L2 caches, the curious case of the missing constant cache, clock speed stability, power draw, and much more.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/07/02/nvidias-h100-funny-l2-and-tons-of-bandwidth/

P.S. if anyone has access to a AMD Instinct MI250 or when it comes out MI300A please hit us up, we really want to test these SoCs if at all possible.

chipsandcheese, 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Nvidia's Shader Execution Reordering and how Nvidia tries to tackle divergence along with speculation on how SER works.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/05/16/shader-execution-reordering-nvidia-tackles-divergence/

chipsandcheese, 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on CP2077's Path Tracing mode and looking at how it behaves on different GPUs in comparison to regular RT modes along with looking at upscaling technologies and how those behave.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/05/07/cyberpunk-2077s-path-tracing-update/