Electronic Passion
Top Founder President
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2 vs. Intel Skylake-X: Battle of the High-End CPUs
2018-10-30 15:29:49
It's one of the greatest questions of our time: AMD or Intel? Today, that rivalry has entered a new stage of Cinebench taunting as AMD's 2000-series Threadripper processors, commonly known as Threadripper 2, come to market to compete against Intel's Skylake-X series.The high end desktop (HEDT) segment is the land of stupid-high prices, with the $1,999 Core i9-7980XE capping the top of Intel's line and the $1,7999 Ryzen Threadripper 2 2990WX serving as AMD's halo product. These chips straddle the line between professional workstation-class products, like Intel's Xeon W line, and the upper end of the desktop PC stack. For prosumers and creators, like the streamers and video producers of the world, this class of processor is worth the premium.
Electronic Passion
Top Founder President
Intel Optane SSD 900P (280GB)
2018-10-29 13:25:26
For some, Intel's Optane SSD 900p will have an immediate, palpable impact. If you work with massive datasets in a workstation environment, this product doesn't even have competition. For the rest of us enthusiasts, it's really fast too, but its impact may not always be as tangible in day-to-day applications. Pricing will make many buyers queasy, but there is medicine for that. But the bottom line is that for many of your computing ailments, there is Optane.
Electronic Passion
Top Founder President
AMD Drops 24% After Low Revenue And Guidance, Crypto Crash
2018-10-29 09:01:08