Welcome to Chips and Cheese
I am pretty sure that I’m not the first person to say that 2020 has been a bad year. A bad year is probably a gross understatement. But even with all that has happened in the world outside of tech,...
View ArticleNVIDIA’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...
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NVIDIA’s Next Generation GPU: MCM?
Recently, we’ve heard rumors that NVIDIA Corporation is targeting a MCM design for their next-generation server GPU. While future product details are scarce and volatile, we can guess at Nvidia’s aims...
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!...
View ArticleIntel Finally Solving the Right Problem
When I first heard that Intel was replacing their current CEO, Bob Swan, my first thought was “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic”. After all, you don’t get into a situation like Intel’s...
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Modern Data Compression in 2021 Part 1: A Simple Overview on the Art of Image...
In our current times, digital information is one of the most important facets of our society. We generate a lot of data, transport a lot of data, and store a large portion of that data. Managing such...
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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...
View ArticleSecurity and You, an Overview
Intel, AMD, and Nvidia have all had brushes with poor security in the past (widely published or otherwise) but that isn’t the focus of this content piece. Instead, we will be exploring what the three...
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CTR Safety, Revisited
There are times when being a journalist is exciting.Your team writes something important, people engage with it and it generates a large response. Unfortunately, those are often the exact situations...
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Analyzing Zen 2’s Cinebench R15 Lead
Cinebench R15 (CBR15) is a popular benchmark based on Cinema4D’s 3D rendering engine. It can utilize all available CPU threads, but here we’ll be analyzing it in single thread mode. In short, Zen 2...
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Modern Data Compression in 2021 Part 2 : The Battle to Dethrone JPEG with...
This is the 2nd article of a multi-part series, with the focus starting on image compression. I would heavily recommend reading the 1st article as it explores a part of the history of image...
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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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Rocket Lake: When ‘Reviews’ are Really Previews
As we’ve all surely seen by now, there are early retail samples in the wild for Intel’s 11th-generation Core desktop CPUs, ‘Rocket Lake-S’, and early reviews to go along with them. Pre-NDA reviews...
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Measuring GPU Memory Latency
We’ve gotten used to measuring CPU cache and memory latencies, so why not do the same to GPUs? Like CPUs, GPUs have evolved to use multi-level cache hierarchies to address the growing gap between...
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RDNA 1 Redux: Maximizing Performance With RX 5000 Series GPUs
With 2021’s seemingly endless GPU stock issues, many users are being forced to rely purchasing last generation graphics cards, or—if they are lucky—hold on to what they have, to play the latest games....
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GPU Memory Latency’s Impact, and Updated Test
In a previous article, we measured cache and memory latency on different GPUs. Before that, discussions on GPU performance have centered on compute and memory bandwidth. So, we’ll take a look at how...
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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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Nvidia’s Ampere & Process Technology: Sunk by Samsung?
While chronic GPU shortages dominate the current news cycle (exacerbated by a myriad of individual factors set to continue for the foreseeable future), the massive increase in power requirements for...
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The End of an Era: AMD Discontinues Pre-2016 GCN GPU Support
A small official blog post and a driver release footnote made for an unceremonious end to one of the most loved and long-lived series of AMD GPUs ever, Hawaii, and it’s HBM-powered follow-up,...
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