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This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has officially ended, and with the HotHardware crew back home, it's time to look back on the trip and highlight some of our favorite, stand-out products. As is usually the...
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Well, well, well. It turns out AMD does have another Ryzen 9000X3D processor on the way besides the one it didn't announce at its CES 2025 keynote. "Yeah Zak," you're thinking. "It's the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2." That chip is probably still on the way, but it's not the topic of today's post. Instead...
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At CES 2026, AMD gave us a hands-on look at its new mini PC, the Ryzen AI Halo. As its name implies, the AMD Ryzen AI Halo is built around AMD's current top-of-the-line APU, the Strix Halo-based Ryzen AI Max+ 395. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395...
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As impressive as the debut of Intel's mobile Panther Lake lineup at CES 2026 was, AMD has gone on the record as being "not afraid" of Intel's latest and greatest architecture. The reason for this is because Intel didn't compare Panther...
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Last year's CES reveal from AMD was pretty cool. We got the Ryzen 9 9950X3D as well as the official launch of AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300 series—the "Strix Halo" family of super-APUs. AMD is heading up CES again this year, with Dr. Lisa Su...
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Reflecting back on a year of gaming, Steam's final hardware and software survey of 2025 indicates a couple of interesting trends as 2026 gets underway. One of this is AMD's ability to continue chipping away at Intel's lead, and on the...
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No one is safe from RAMmageddon, including gaming console manufacturers. According to a recent report, console manufacturers are debating whether next-gen devices should be delayed to post 2027-2028, breaking the common 7-year cadence...
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While you're planning your New Year's resolutions, add-in board (AIB) partners for both AMD and NVIDIA are getting ready to ring in 2026 with a round of price increases, followed by more price hikes as the year goes on, according to multiple reports. The culprit, as you can probably guess, is...
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Ahead of CES 2026, Sapphire is showing off a pair of "PhantomLink" (its equivalent to ASUS' BTF) AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPUs and motherboards. Both will come in white or black colorways and are (for now) China-exclusives.
This launch...
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The long-awaited "double X3D" CPU, which AMD once denied would ever happen, has finally confirmed its existence with new leaks over at Geekbench and Passmark. We'll cut to the chase: neither benchmark result is particularly interesting, as...
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Over on X, Kepler_L2, one of the more trusted leakers in the industry, claims that AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture is slated for a mid-2027 release date, with chips being built on TSMC's N3P process. This claim emerged...
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Because of the way we interact with these features, it's easy to think of Intel XMP and AMD EXPO as binary, 'yes or no' features, but both standards have actually gone through a few revisions. Right now, we're on revision 1.1 of AMD's...
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AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processor with 3D V-Cache may kick things up in a big way to compete with Intel's upcoming Nova Lake chips. How so? According to a popular leaker on X, AMD will offer single CCD (core complex die) variants with...
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This past Wednesday, AMD quietly published what appears to be the first official technical documentation for its upcoming Zen 6 CPU architecture, codenamed Morpheus. This document offers early insight into several notable architectural changes. While the company has not formally announced Zen...
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Gamers on the PC platform could use a win right about now, and a victory may be coming when AMD gets around to formally launching its Ryzen 7 9850X3D, which is basically a binned and faster version of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The latest leaks...
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AMD has quietly expanded its graphics card lineup with the Radeon RX 9060 XT LP, essentially a lower power version of the regular Radeon RX 9060 XT for mid-range gaming PCs. From what we can tell, the specifications between and regular and...
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You may not realize it, but we've been here doing our thing at HotHardware since 1999; we remember the good (and bad) old days of the PC enthusiast scene. There was a time when graphics cards were a wild market. You could find Quantum3D...
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AMD's business is growing rapidly, and that means it needs more employees. The company is hiring for many positions on its website, and this is a frequent area of interest for leaksmen trying to find interesting info about the company's...
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A key argument in the battle between NVIDIA's GeForce GPUs and AMD's Radeon graphics products is that NVIDIA offers superior software support. That's not necessarily true, though. AMD's made great strides in driver and software quality in...
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As far as anyone outside AMD knows, Team Red's next processor releases will be the Gorgon Point family, which is a refresh of Strix Point. "Refresh" doesn't necessarily mean "rebadged," though. Sometimes refreshes can come with significant...
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While not yet released at retail or even publicly announced, AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor is confirmed to exist by way of a support document on AMD's website. It's also been benchmarked, assuming a couple of entries at Geekbench are legitimate. If so, they offer the first glimpse of where...
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If you're looking at buying a new Ryzen CPU, the time is now, and we mean right now, as in literally within the next few hours. That's because AMD is expected to raise prices on its CPUs at the distributor level if it hasn't already done...
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