Just five years ago, debating the merits of a 6-core CPU versus an 8-core model wasn’t possible. We were all stuck with 4-core chips at a consumer level—to break past that barrier, you had to pay ...

Being a PC user comes with a certain level of anxiety. "Am I settling for an underpowered GPU?", "Should I spend the premium on that fancy motherboard?", and "Is it finally time to buy an 8-core CPU ...

Having reviewed Ryzen 5000 12-core and 16-core models, today we're testing the Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD's latest 8-core CPU. So far we've been impressed by the Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X, so let's continue to ...

The next-gen Intel Lunar Lake CPUs will be for ultra-low mobile power systems, which will succeed the current-gen Core Ultra 100U "Meteor Lake" CPUs that we've seen deployed since CES 2024 earlier ...

One question left over from the Tiger Lake launch was whether these new chips would be limited to just four cores or not. The answer? No. Eight core chips haven't been formally announced yet, but they ...

The company says its new 14th Gen Core CPUs are for embedded systems and not intended for consumer use, but there's no reason at all that gamers couldn't buy one of these new CPUs. The new flagship ...

Intel is reportedly working on a new budget gaming CPU with eight cores, which is likely to form part of the company's new Arrow Lake lineup. According to this latest leak, the new CPU will come under ...

In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performance. To do that, we used three Intel Core processors and compared their core scaling performance, ...

There are eight-core+ CPUs available. And yes, ESXi is Hyper-Threading aware and doesn't count HT as another core. Im ok with it only using 6 of the 8 cores. for the time being im just trying to ...

The advent of Intel's new 14th-generation CPUs builds on the success of its 13th-generation Raptor Lake-based CPUs with higher clocks and, in some cases, higher core counts in tow. Meanwhile, AMD ...