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Earlier this year it transpired that in 2023, Intel intends to cease using its Celeron and Pentium brands for entry-level notebook CPUs. Instead, Intel will use the 'Intel Processor' branding. With 2023 being mere weeks away, it is about time for one of the first Intel Processor-badged CPUs to allegedly get tested. For now take the test results with a pinch of salt until they are verified.
The first Intel Processor product to hit Primate Labs' Geekbench 5 database appears to be the Intel N95 (via @Benchleaks), which seems to be one of the entry-level Alder Lake-N CPUs featuring four Atom-class energy-efficient cores based on the Gracement microarchitecture. The processor features a 1.70 GHz base clock, a 2.80 GHz boost clock, 2MB of L2 cache, and 6MB of L3 cache, based on the entry in the Geekbench database. This is not the first time when an Alder Lake-N CPU gets benchmarked, but this is the first time when we see a quad-core Alder Lake-N.
Header Cell - Column 0 | Intel N95 | Core i3-N305 | Celeron 7305 | Athlon Gold 7220U | Core i3-1210U |
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General specifications | 4E, up to 2.80 GHz | 8E, up to 3.78 GHz | 1P, 4E, 1.10 GHz | 2P/4T, up to 3.70 GHz | 2P, 4E, up to 4.40 GHz |
Single-Core | Integer | 701 | 922 | 372 | 852 | 1287 |
Single-Core | Float | 829 | 1080 | 432 | 1004 | 1569 |
Single-Core | Crypto | 1540 | 2041 | 1097 | 1536 | 2542 |
Single-Core | Score | 781 | 1025 | 426 | 932 | 1434 |
Multi-Core | Integer | 1834 | 4435 | 1127 | 1990 | 4121 |
Multi-Core | Float | 2045 | 4514 | 1275 | 2256 | 4662 |
Multi-Core | Crypto | 3446 | 3658 | 2937 | 3779 | 4903 |
Multi-Core | Score | 1978 | 4420 | 1262 | 2159 | 4322 |
Link | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19288841 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/17620675 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/18422984 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19163578 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15877367 |
Since the Intel N95 is an entry-level product with only four efficient cores and rather low frequencies, it was certainly not designed to offer breakthrough performance. Therefore, it is not surprising that it ranked substantially slower than Intel's eight-core Core i3-N305 'Alder Lake-N' processor. Yet, it stacks up very well against Intel's existing Celeron 7305 CPU with one high-performance and four energy-efficient cores that operate at 1.10 GHz.
While we yet have to determine how exactly Intel intends to position its N95 processor, we also included scores obtained on AMD's entry-level Athlon Gold 7220U CPU with two Zen 2 cores at 2.40 GHz ~ 3.70 GHz and with a 4MB of L3 cache for comparison. Evidently, the Athlon Gold 7220U shows better GeekBench 5 scores than Intel's N95, though we should bear in mind that AMD's lowest-end next-generation Athlon will be the dual-core Athlon Silver 7120U (which yet has to get benchmarked).
Even though Geekbench 5 is not exactly the best way to estimate performance of a CPU in real-life applications, it should be noted that it can still be used to find out how processors stack up against each other.
Meanwhile, keep in mind that for now we are dealing with pre-production Alder Lake-N hardware and it might be too early to draw any conclusions about performance of these CPUs.
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The latest GPU market share report has been published by JPR and shows that the overall market declined by 19% versus last year while both AMD & NVIDIA gained a bit (solely in terms of market capitalization and not shipments).
GPU Market Saw A 19% Decline In Q1 2022 But AMD & NVIDIA Managed To Gain Market Share
Recent global events have been highlighted as the main cause of the market slipping down by 6.2% versus the previous quarter (Q4 2022) while we saw an overall decline of 19% year over year. This is lower than the annual growth rate of 6.3% which is predicted between 2022 and 2026 to reach an installed base of 3.3 million units while the penetration of discrete graphics is expected to hit 46%.
Coming to the vendor breakdown, NVIDIA saw the biggest market share increase of 1.69% and now stands at 21% while AMD's market share increased 0.7%, hitting 19% total GPU share. Intel's GPUs saw a decline of -2.4% and currently stand at 60% market share. The reason for Intel's GPU market share still being so high is because all of their CPUs with iGPUs are accounted for in the report. The overall shipments for NVIDIA increased by 3.2% while AMD and Intel saw a decline of -6.2% and -1.5 percent, respectively.
Discrete GPU Market Share (Q1 2022) | |||
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Q1’21 | Q4’21 | Q1’22 | |
AMD | 19% | 18% | 17% |
Intel | NA | 5% | 4% |
Nvidia | 81% | 78% | 78% |
The discrete GPU market share is a different story where NVIDIA retained 78% market share from the previous quarter, AMD declined -by 1% to 17%, & Intel saw a -1% decline down to 4%. Do note that Intel's Arc GPUs were introduced at the tail end of Q1 2022 so they have yet to amount to any significant market share yet. The GPUs are also limited to certain markets at the moment so they won't be amounting to any significant market share till the end of 2022.
Quick highlights
- The GPU’s overall attach rate (which includes integrated and discrete GPUs, desktops, notebooks, and workstations) to PCs for the quarter was 129%, up 5.0% from last quarter.
- The overall PC CPU market decreased by -10.8% quarter-to-quarter and decreased by -26.2% year-to-year.
- Desktop graphics add-in boards (AIBs that use discrete GPUs) increased by 1.4% from the last quarter.
- This quarter saw a 16.5% drop in tablet shipments from last quarter.
We also have more data coming in from Tech Analyst, Mike Bruzzone (Camp Marketing) who has reported a discrete GPU share of 80.67% for NVIDIA and 19.43% for AMD. According to the new statistics (1st week of 2022), NVIDIA's Ampere GPUs amount to 84.87% market share while AMD's RDNA 2 GPUs amount to 15.23% market share.
For the AMD GPU market share, the breakdown is as follows:
Commercial (DC) = 0.57% includes V340 and Instinct listed below
Analyst believes AMD data center higher on production share
Workstation = 2.64%
Desktop = 88.75%
Mobile = 8.04%Back 2 generation N6x, N5x % by product category week of 5.28.22 only;
Commercial (DC) = 0.37% includes V340 and Instinct listed below
Workstation = 2.46%
Desktop = 86.21%
Mobile = 10.96%
For the NVIDIA GPU market share, the breakdown is as follows:
Commercial (DC) = 0.17%
Workstation = 7.52%
Desktop = 72.98%
Consumer Mobile = 19.33%Back 2 generation % by product category week of 5.28.22;
Commercial (DC) = 0.18%
Workstation = 3.12% desktop + 3.12% laptop = 6.23% total
Desktop = 68.45%
Consumer Mobile = 25.13%
With the prices dropping and graphics card vendors picking up their marketing game for the gaming segment, we can expect GPU shipments to increase in the second half of 2022. Both NVIDIA & AMD are also expected to launch their next-generation lineup later this year which will also push shipments further up.
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Roughly four years after introducing the industry's first 8 Gb LPDDR5 solution, Samsung is back with a new achievement in the field. This time, it's all about speed: the industry's fastest LPDDR5X DRAM solution by Samsung has been clocked at 8.5 Gbps and received its validation to be used on Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile platforms.
According to Samsung, the 7.5 Gbps achieved in March was pushed to a new record by optimizing a high-speed signal environment between the application processor and memory. This new record comes after Samsung's long stream of successes in the memory market, which includes the following milestones: 1.8 Gbps LPDDR3, 3.7 Gbps LPDDR4, 4.2 Gbps LPDDR4X, and 6.4 Gbps LPDDR5.
Regarding the 8.5 Gbps LPDDR5X DRAM solution unveiled today, both Samsung and Qualcomm Technologies seem to have plans to use it for improving their existing portfolio of products. However, there is no detailed information to mention yet. Ziad Asghar, Qualcomm's Vice President of Product Management: "We’re the first in the mobile industry to enable the latest LPDDR5X at 8.5Gbps on Snapdragon mobile platforms, which will enhance user experiences with new features and improved performance for mobile, gaming, camera and AI applications."
LPDDR memory is currently used in many applications, such as computers and smartphones, modern vehicles, data centers, edge servers, as well as various smart home and IoT solutions.
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AMD is planning to unveil its next-generation 3D V-Cache CPUs based on the Zen 4 architecture, the Ryzen 7000 X3D, at CES 2023.
AMD Wants The Gaming Throne Once & For All With Its Next-Gen Ryzen 7000 X3D "Zen 4 3D V-Cache" CPUs, Coming Early Next Year
We have managed to get hold of an internal roadmap that more or less confirms that AMD will be unveiling its Zen 4 3D V-Cache parts at CES 2023. The processors will be positioned as the fastest gaming chips on the market and will be taking the gaming performance crown from Intel's Raptor Lake 13th Gen CPUs. Do note that the CPU roadmap is different than the one t
AMD themselves had previously stated that Ryzen 7000 CPUs with 3D V-Cache technology will appear later this year during FAD 2022 however that isn't applicable no more since the plan has changed. Following is their quote:
Ryzen 7 5800X3D is the best gaming processor in the market bar none. We are proud of what V-Cache technology is doing for us and we are gonna feature this in Ryzen 7000 series later this year and in the future generation.
AMD's Senior Vice President and General Manager for Client, Saeid Moshkelani
Currently, AMD's Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" CPUs trade blows with Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs and sometimes get ahead of them. AMD is also facing competition with its own AM4 parts such as the 5800X3D and has lowered production of its Zen 4 CPUs amidst lower demand. But the chip maker will be utilizing this capacity to manufacture the X3D parts which they are hoping will attract lots of new gamers on the AM5 platform.
Currently, there are no confirmed SKUs but we are hearing there might be two SKUs this time around instead of one on the AM4 platform. One SKU will be targeted at enthusiasts while the other will be targeted as a mainstream gaming option. These are yet to be finalized but we will keep you updated.
Another thing that the previous generation V-Cache CPU, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, lacked was support for overclocking, and to conserve power draw (voltages), it came down-clocked versus the non-V-Cache parts. The Zen 4 V-Cache CPUs are said to ease down on these voltage restrictions and while their clock speeds are expected to be lower than the standard non-V-Cache parts, they will run at much higher speeds and the clock disparity will not be as significant as this time around.
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AMD seems to have confirmed that its next-gen RDNA 3 GPUs for Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards will deliver enhanced raytracing capabilities and even higher clock speeds than RDNA 2.
AMD Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Cards With RDNA 3 GPU Delivers Enhanced Raytracing Capabilities Thanks To Rearchitected Compute Units
There are a lot of things that were overlooked during AMD Financial Analyst Day 2022. Things like the fact that AMD confirmed its Zen 4 3D V-Cache Ryzen CPUs coming later this year. Another key comment that was missed out came from AMD's Senior Vice President of Engineering at Radeon Technologies Group, David Wang, who confirmed that AMD will be delivering enhanced raytracing capabilities with their next-gen RDNA 3 GPUs.
It (RDNA 3) is also our first gaming GPU architecture that will leverage the enhanced 5nm process and an advanced chip packaging technology. And another innovation includes a architected compute units with enhanced ray-tracing capabilities and an optimized graphics pipeline with even faster clock speeds and improved power efficiency.
And to bring more photorealistic effects into the domain of realtime gaming, we are developing hybrid approaches that takes the performance of the rasterization combined with the visual fidelity of raytracing, to deliver the best realtime imerssive experiences without comprising performance.
Lastly, our next-generation multimedia, we will support advanced video codecs such as AV1 to deliver high-quality video streaming and reduce latencies and bitrates. We will also improve our display capbilities with the new DisplayPort 2.0 standard to support upcoming HDR displays with high resolutions and refresh rates.
David Wang, AMD's SVP of Engineering at Radeon Technologies Group
Some of the key features of the RDNA 3 GPUs highlighted by AMD will include:
- 5nm Process Node
- Advanced Chiplet Packaging
- Rearchitected Compute Unit
- Optimized Graphics Pipeline
- Next-Gen AMD Infinity Cache
- >50% Perf/Watt vs RDNA 2
According to David, AMD has rearchitected the compute units within RDNA 3 that deliver enhanced raytracing capabilities. Although there's no mention of what these capabilities are but if we were to guess, we would say it's definitely talking about performance and a set of advanced features on the RDNA 3 GPU core for Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards.
AMD's RDNA 2 GPU-powered Radeon RX 6000 series were the first to feature raytracing capabilities on the red camp. They were a generation behind NVIDIA who introduced them first two years prior on their Turing graphics architecture and fine-tuned it further to deliver better performance in the second generation on Ampere. With RDNA 3 GPU-powered Radeon RX 7000 pitted for launch later this year, we can expect AMD to offer a similar jump in performance or even exceed Ampere's ray-tracing capabilities. But the real challenge ahead would be to rival NVIDIA's 3rd Gen RT (Raytracing) cores which are expected to debut on the Ada Lovelace-powered GeForce RTX 40 series.
Besides raytracing, David also mentioned that the Optimized Graphics Pipeline for RDNA 3 GPUs will allow for even higher clock speeds than RDNA 2 GPUs. The AMD Radeon RX 6000 cards already run close to 3 GHz so, with an improved 5nm process node, we can expect AMD to breach past the 3 GHz clock limit. This is essential for AMD as their competitor isn't holding back either with RTX 40 series rumors also hinting at up to 3 GHz clock speeds utilizing the more efficient 4N (optimized 5nm process node).
All of these features combined with the next-gen infinity cache solution, advanced packaging tech, and a 50% perf/watt improvement will result in a highly competitive graphics solution in the form of Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. Plus, the rumor mill is also reporting a more powerful RDNA 3 Navi 3X GPU in the works for 2023 which is expected to be a monster of a chip but whether that comes to the Gaming segment or remains a Pro-only offering remains to be seen.
AMD RDNA 3 Navi 3X GPU Configurations (Preliminary)
GPU Name | Navi 21 | Navi 33 | Navi 32 | Navi 31 | Navi 3X |
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Codename | Sienna Cichlid | Hotpink Bonefish | Wheat Nas | Plum Bonito | TBD |
GPU Process | 7nm | 6nm | 5nm/6nm | 5nm/6nm | 5nm/6nm |
GPU Package | Monolithic | Monolithic | MCM (1 GCD + 4 MCD) | MCM (1 GCD + 6 MCD) | MCM (TBD) |
GPU Die Size | 520mm2 | 203mm2 (Only GCD) | 200mm2 (Only GCD) 425mm2 (with MCDs) | 300mm2 (Only GCD) 522mm2 (with MCDs) | TBD |
Shader Engines | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
GPU WGPs | 40 | 16 | 30 | 48 | 64 |
SPs Per WGP | 128 | 128 | 128 | 128 | 128 |
Compute Units (Per Die) | 80 | 32 | 60 | 96 | 128 (per GPU) 256 (Total) |
SPs (Per Die) | 5120 | 2048 | 3840 | 6144 | 4096 |
ALUs (Per Die) | 5120 | 4096 | 7680 | 12288 | 16384 |
Memory Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit | 256-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit x2? |
Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
Memory Capacity | Up To 16 GB | Up To 8 GB | Up To 16 GB | Up To 24 GB | Up To 32 GB |
Memory Speed | 16-18 Gbps | TBD | TBD | 20 Gbps | TBD |
Memory Bandwidth | 512-576 GB/s | TBD | TBD | 960 GB/s | TBD |
Infinity Cache | 128 MB | 32 MB | 64 MB | 96/192 MB | TBD |
Flagship SKU | Radeon RX 6900 XTX | Radeon RX 7600 XT? Radeon RX 7700M? | Radeon RX 7800 XT? Radeon RX 7900M? | Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon Pro |
TBP (Max) | 330W | ~150W | ~250W | 335W | TBD |
Launch | Q4 2020 | Q4 2022? | Q4 2022? | Q4 2022? | 2023? |
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