Video card gaming performance traditionally gets most of the coverage whenever ATI and NVIDIA go head-to-head with new products, and it makes a certain amount of sense given that gaming is a ...

Energy consumption is a chief concern for many digital signal processing applications, especially for portable applications where battery life is paramount. In these applications, an accurate ...

I am trying to devise the best way to measure the time an application spends executing in both user and system space on Linux (x86). I don't necessarily have to have user and system time measured ...

I am often asked the question “When is the processor verification done?” or in other words “how do I measure the efficiency of my testbench and how can I be confident in the quality of the ...

Is your chip fast enough? Is it too fast? Systems engineers might be paying for more chip than they need, or they may be dangerously close to over-taxing their current processor. Take the guesswork ...

These days, gaming is viewed as the near-exclusive purview of the GPU, but fresh data suggests the situation is rather different. CPU performance can still have an impact on gaming. Share on Facebook ...

With today's enthusiast and gaming PCs using more energy than at any other time in history, you might be looking to see how you can measure the amount of power your machine is consuming. This ...

Video benchmark software tests your computer's hardware during OpenGL and DirectX rendering. A dedicated graphics processing unit, or GPU, usually performs the intensive task of simulating the ...

These days, gaming is viewed as the near-exclusive purview of the GPU, but fresh data suggests the situation is rather different. CPU performance can still have an impact on gaming. Share on Facebook ...