Following the first test results of the Exynos 2400 SoC, which may still appear in the Galaxy S24, the characteristics of this platform were also published on the Web.

According to these data, it will contain a 10-core CPU! We have seen this before, but manufacturers have long abandoned such a number of cores in SoCs. The configuration of the processor part will include one Cortex-X4 core with a frequency of 3.1 GHz, two Cortex-A720 cores with a frequency of 2.9 GHz, three of the same cores with a frequency of 2.6 GHz and four Cortex-A520 with a frequency of 1.8 GHz . The third level cache will be 8 MB.

The graphics core of the Xclipse 940 will have 768 stream processors based on the RDNA 2 architecture. In addition, the new SoC will support cameras up to 320 MP, which hints at the possibility of such sensors in the future.

What is important is supposedly support for recording video in 8K at 60 fps, which platforms do not currently know how to do. From the rest, we can note the support for LPDDR5, UFS 4.0 and the Samsung SF4P process technology.

Information was recently shared by a very active insider Revegnus (@Tech_Reve), who previously accurately reported the first details about the new platforms of the Snapdragon 8 and Exynos families.

Recently, the issue of the lack of video memory in many GeForce RTX 30 video cards has been very actively discussed. And the best way to check whether this is so seems to have already been found. Enthusiast Paulo Gomes took the RTX 3070, which comes with 8GB of memory, and added another 8GB to it. The modified adapter worked fine after certain settings, except that the authors took only a remake of Resident Evil 4 as a test.

In their case, the game consumed 11 GB of memory, and this is at a resolution of 2560 x 1080 pixels. As you can see, the difference is very large. It is not very correct to evaluate it by screenshots, it is better to watch the video. In the case of a regular RTX 3070, the average performance jumps a lot, but formally it is at a good level of 50-70 fps. However, the problem is that FPS 1% and FPS 0.1% are 7 fps! This means that periodically the performance drops to these values ​​for a moment, which makes the overall gaming experience ragged and uncomfortable. In the case of the modified RTX 3070, the same figures are 64 fps and 48 fps, respectively, that is, there are no problems with smoothness.

Simply put, if the RTX 3070 had 16 GB of memory, or at least 12 GB of memory, it would perform much better. The problem is that we are talking about a 3D card from just two years ago, which at one time came out at a price of $ 500, and a game that was launched only in Full HD +.

Apparently, Intel Meteor Lake processors will indeed receive a fourth-level cache for iGPUs. Previously, this information was found in a Linux patch, but now Intel has received a patent for the corresponding solution.

The patent was filed back in 2020. Intel itself calls the same L4 cache Adamantine. Apparently, it is quite important for Meteor Lake, since it got its own name.

There is no such information in the patent, but Moore’s Law is Dead says that Intel is currently testing variants of such a cache from 128 to 512 MB, although it could technically be several gigabytes.

As a reminder, the Adamantine cache will only be available for iGPUs. This, firstly, will allow the graphics core to work faster, since it will not always be necessary to access slower RAM, and secondly, it will leave the third-level cache at the disposal of the processor part.

CPU Meteor Lake should be released at the end of this year.