AMD's recent branch prediction optimizations, which significantly improved gaming performance on Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" and Ryzen 7000 CPUs, are now available for Windows 11 23H2 users. This update offers ...

An interesting finding in fields like computer science is that much of what is advertised as new and innovative was actually pilfered from old research papers submitted to ACM and others. Which is not ...

Well, quite a lot. Branch prediction is tied into speculative execution, and so it wouldn't be too unreasonable to think that speculative execution mitigations may have an impact on branch prediction, ...

This seems to be a recurring theme with AMD CPU releases, needing weeks or months after release for drivers, BIOS, Windows OS to catch up with the design changes. If you wait awhile then they're ...