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 ...

OWC swaps in an 8-core Intel CPU on the Mac Pro in place of the stock 6-core chip and cites up to a 30 percent performance boost. Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor Brooke Crothers writes about ...

The 8-core Snapdragon X Plus comes with a smaller 30MB CPU cache, which is 12MB less than its more powerful versions. It also has less than half the GPU power for gaming and productivity apps, leading ...

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 ...

Specifications-wise the Ryzen 7 3800X is identical to the Ryzen 7 3700X under the hood with 8 cores and 16 threads plus 36MB total cache. However, the latter has a TDP of 65W versus 105W for the Ryzen ...

AMD will launch its next-gen Zen 5 CPU architecture later this year, which will be used in Kraken Point, Granite Ridge, Strix Point, and Strix Halo APU and CPU designs... with Granite Rapids desktop ...

Most of Banana Pi’s single-board computers are powered by ARM-based processors. But the upcoming Banana Pi BPI-F3 has a RISC-V processor instead. The company says the SpacemiT RISC-V K1 processor ...

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 ...