The Surface Duo made quite a splash at launch, and then the reviewers got their hands on the device. The shortcomings in the software were immediately evident, and it all went downhill from there, culminating in fire sale pricing for certain models. It's really too bad, as the hardware was pretty good (not perfect, certainly). I initially bought a device at launch with some … [Read more...] about The Surface Duo: A Singular Foldable
News
How to Compare Benchmarks: Measures of Center
Problem Statement While benchmarking different games to see if Broadwell still holds up in early 2022, I had a thought: was I wrong to report the average framerate across all benchmarked games? Are the higher framerate games contributing more than they should to the simple average of all the FPS's across all the benchmarks? The more I thought about it, the more convinced I … [Read more...] about How to Compare Benchmarks: Measures of Center
Broadwell Revisit Pt 2: Now with Faster RAM
My initial investigation set out to determine whether AnandTech's revisit of Broadwell in 2020 was reproducible. This extends that work by adding modern 8- and 4-core CPUs, and testing faster RAM. As we'll see, Broadwell does notably better than Haswell, but can't keep up with modern platforms in all games with fast(ish) RAM in 2022. Broadwell in 2022 For today's testing, … [Read more...] about Broadwell Revisit Pt 2: Now with Faster RAM
Lakefield in 2021: Revisiting the Galaxy Book S
Lakefield Details The Lakefield SoC has a unique core configuration for an Intel SoC. This was their first foray into using both high performance and low power cores on the same chip. In Lakefield, there are 4 Tremont cores from their 'Atom' range, and a single Sunny Cove core from their 'Core' family. The Sunny Cove cores were also used in Intel's 11th gen laptop designs, … [Read more...] about Lakefield in 2021: Revisiting the Galaxy Book S
Broadwell Revisit Pt. 1: Do games like eDRAM?
After reading AnandTech’s article by Dr. Ian Cuttress, A Broadwell Retrospective Review in 2020: Is eDRAM Still Worth It?, I was quite surprised at how Intel’s Broadwell processors have held up over the years compared to their predecessor, Haswell. I wanted to see if I could reproduce those results, and happened to have a lot of Haswell-era PC parts around, so I was a few … [Read more...] about Broadwell Revisit Pt. 1: Do games like eDRAM?