The traditional H&P (COaD) is a safe bet for any first or second course in computer architecture. I haven't spent more than a few minutes with CA but I can tell you that neither book is going to ...

To show you what I mean, I've sampled the CPU usage of two high-end PCs in five different games. One rig is a CyberPowerPC, with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU and RTX 5080 graphics card. The other is a ...