BenchmarkReviews.com: Well, we're almost halfway through 2011, and guess what? Although SSDs have come down in price, they're still pretty darn expensive. If you're a regular Benchmark Reviews reader, you've seen our numerous SSD reviews and know that replacing your hard disk with an SSD is the single biggest performance improvement you can make to your system. But with 256G SSDs going for between $427 and $584 on Newegg, versus dozens of terabyte drives for less than $75.00, most people choose the latter. But Intel's new Smart Response Technology, available initially on Z68 Express motherboards, promises to bring much of that speedy SSD performance to users via a small SSD used as a cache for the main hard drive.
Last Friday, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told CNBC he thinks the chip shortage will last into 2024.
The Radeon RX 6500M outperforms the Intel Arc A370M in AMD benchmarks. This week, Intel unveiled its Arc laptop GPUs, which featured the A370M from the Arc 3
AMD has a larger market cap than Intel for the first time in history. Since its initial Zen architecture in 2017, AMD's fortunes have improved dramatically.
