Items tagged with AMD
Since Battlefield 6's wildly successful launch on PC, low-spec gamers everywhere have been eager to put it through its paces—and have come away pleasantly surprised at how well it performs on GPUs of yesteryear. One particular YouTuber...
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ASUS is following up on its 2025 ROG NUC with an AMD-powered variation, but the new machine is a China exclusive and something of a mixed upgrade. The good news is that the new model of the 2025 ROG NUC -- dubbed the ROG NUC 9 Mini --...
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Last year, AMD and Intel formed the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group. On the cusp of their one year anniversary, AMD has released a blog post detailing the advancements made by AMD, Intel and "key ecosystem partners" in the time since, as well...
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AMD's Socket AM4 launched way back in September 2016, and it's still getting new CPUs released to this very day. However, some of the earliest boards may not have ever gotten the necessary BIOS updates to support newer-generation CPUs...
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One of the big features that AMD fans boast about when extolling the virtues of the Ryzen platform is forward compatibility. This very writer bought an ASRock X570 Taichi motherboard way back in 2019 for the launch of AMD's Ryzen 3000...
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Xbox is getting absolutely battered this console generation, but Microsoft still insists a next-gen AMD-powered Xbox is in the works—and the rumor mill is now pointing toward a 2027 release window for the next-gen Xbox with AMD's "Magnus"...
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In a video posted to the official PlayStation YouTube channel this morning, AMD and Sony detailed a few major advancements in AMD's GPU architecture developed under the two companies' Project Amethyst collaboration—advancements that point...
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AMD's next-generation Instinct MI450 AI accelerator for the data center will tap into TSMC's 2-nanometer (N2) process technology, at least for part of the GPU's construction. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed as much during an interview...
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AMD and OpenAI have come to terms on a multi-year agreement that will see OpenAI buy several generations of Instinct GPUs, as well as invest in a 10% stake in the Santa Clara chip designer. The bombshell announcement comes on the heels of...
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AMD has fully AI-powered frame generation on the way with its FSR Redstone project, but that's not here yet. In the interim, the company has something interesting: the option to customize "Fast Motion Response" within its "Fluid Motion...
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We're a few days into October and that means there is another Steam survey to digest (as we like to do), the latest of which highlights a couple of interesting albeit not unexpected trends. One of those trends is AMD continue to chip away...
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AMD's socket longevity has always been a strong point for the company. AMD supported Socket 7 longer than anyone, and aside from a few missteps (with Slot A and later, some of the APU sockets), the company has typically tried to offer at...
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Intel's ongoing restructuring effort and attempts to boost its chip making business could get an assist from AMD, its main competitor in the x86 space. Nothing has been announcement, but Intel is reportedly in "early-stage" discussions...
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AMD's chiplet architecture has not really changed in a fundamental way since the introduction of the Ryzen 3000 processors based on the Zen 2 architecture back in 2019. The move to Socket AM5 necessitated a new cIOD or "client I/O die", but it's still connected to the CCDs, or Core Complex...
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Since the AMD FSR 4 INT8 DLL leak, we've known that it's possible to use FSR 4 on older GPU architectures than RDNA 4. Recently, we've actually seen successful use of FSR 4 on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, after early efforts resulted in...
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A Radeon subreddit user revealed that their PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 had been flashed with the RX 9070 XT vBIOS, which boosted performance by up to 25% in some synthetic benchmarks. In Cyberpunk 2077 with "a mix of...
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AMD quietly added details for a Radeon RX 7700 non-XT GPU to its website and shortly thereafter ASRock revealed that it would be the first AIB to produce a card as part of its Challenger series. The ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7700 is the...
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Shares of AMD slid following the announcement that Intel and NVIDIA are teaming up to co-develop several generations of datacenter and PC products. The arrangement, which also includes a $5 billion investment by NVIDIA into Intel common...
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AMD is writing the book on socket longevity and it's doing it with AM4, which is approaching a decade of service. Just when you thought we'd seen the last hurrah for the aging platform when AMD released a new Ryzen 5 5500X3D with 3D...
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Yesterday on Reddit, intrepid user u/AthleteDependent926 posted a bombshell to the r/Radeon subreddit: AMD's FSR 4 source code leak in August contained all the files needed to run FSR 4 with older GPU hardware. Doing so requires the use of...
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What do Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, and an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT priced at MSRP all have in common? Nobody has ever supplied definitive proof that any of them actually exist. That may change, however, with the Radeon RX 9070 XT...
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Once upon a time, hitting triple-digit frame rates in a game was considered a big deal, and that's still sometimes the case but no longer a rarity. So what is a big deal these days? Blowing past the capabilities of any monitor on the...
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