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When it comes to Borderlands 4 and its '8 cores or equivalent' requirement, it's actually core quality, not core count, that matters the most
Core concerns Heck, you can even run it on 4 cores and 4 threads.
Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch
News New face, same Comet Lake-era performance.
Apple's new A19 Pro iPhone chip has posted a genuinely astonishing score on Geekbench, and if it was a new gaming CPU we'd all be losing our minds
News Apple is the king of IPC...
With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks
News Is it just me or is a vapor chamber in an iPhone a bit silly?
Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core 'or equivalent' CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser
News Poor phrasing, thread counts, or something else?
AMD candidly admits 'we charge more for our CPUs than our competitor' and that 'customers feel good about the price'
News Doesn't bode well if AMD manages to take the fight to Nvidia in the GPU market.
Intel promises 'leadership across the board on desktop' when its next-gen Nova Lake CPU launches in late 2026
News Beating AMD will be a tall order, but maybe 52 cores will do it.
Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT
News One whole core for pinball duties.
