What’s the difference between a Zen core, a CUDA core, and a Tensor core? Not vaguely — like “one is for graphics, one is for AI” and so on — but specifically, how does each “core” differ in design and operation?

In this multi-part series, we’re going to look in detail at these core types to help bridge the gap between the vague conceptual understanding most of us already have, and the in-depth knowledge we could use to make better sense of hardware behavior across core types.