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AMD issued a blog post yesterday, right before the launch of the RTX 4070, subtly shredding NVIDIA’s “lackluster” GDDR6 and GDDR6X memory sizes on its RTX 30/40 series graphics cards. AMD says enthusiasts demand the best gaming experience possible and video memory capacities below 12GB are simply not enough to run the...
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PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX Spectral White: Starting At $1,029 PowerColor has revamped its Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XTX card with a spectral white finish, to complement the factory overclock and oversized cooler. Strong Performance Good Overclocking Great Looking Card Dual BIOS Switch Dedication Lighting...
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ASRock's Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX has been discounted well below its $1120 MSRP to just $959.99 for the first time ever. The card's new price is not only significant for the Phantom Gaming SKU, but it is also a noticeable discount from AMD's $1000 MSRP for the reference models. On top of this, the card is...
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For a long time, your choice of motherboard has had very little impact on your CPU's performance. That's changed recently with the growing popularity of >150W CPUs; buying a cheapo mobo could sharply limit your CPU's clocks due to the manufacturer having skimped on the power delivery hardware. Thankfully, that doesn't...
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PowerColor has teased us with a new Radeon RX 7900XTX Hellhound graphics card that will be dressed in white. This new variant will be called Spectral White, featuring a white shroud, backplate, and PCB, akin to the Galax RTX 40 series Hall of Fame video cards. PowerColor says the new graphics card will be coming soon...
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While the Easter Bunny might be delivering treats today, the Amazon delivery driver will be dropping off processors, if you snag any of the holiday deals today. With the latest from AMD and Intel up for grabs, now is a great time to get the most cluck for your buck.
Starting the Easter deals, we have the...
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AMD's Ryzen "X3D" processors are created by very literally attaching a second piece of silicon that is almost entirely L3 cache memory to the top of a regular Ryzen processor die, just like the picture above implies. It is the central slab atop the wider CCD. This second chip, known as the "3D V-Cache", is very...
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Jim Keller's been getting around in the last decade or so. Back in the early 00s, he was critical to the development of the Athlon 64 at AMD, and in more recent years, he's been at Apple, Tesla, Intel, and AMD again before joining AI-focused chip creator Tenstorrent where he has quickly become CEO.
Every...
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Samsung and AMD have jointly announced an extension to a license agreement to continue using the latter's Radeon graphics solutions in the former's home-brewed Exynos system-on-chip (SoC) designs. And while not specifically mentioned in the announcement, this paves the way for Samsung to leverage AMD's RDNA 3...
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The ASUS ROG Ally was not an April Fool's joke after all, but that has turned out to be a very good thing. Sources claim that ASUS’ new handheld gaming console will destroy the Steam Deck in gaming performance with up to twice the performance potential, thanks to beefed-up internals running on the latest AMD CPU and...
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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D - $449 MSRP The new Ryzen 7 7800X3D is an 8-core / 16-thread processor with 64MB of 3D V-Cache that offers class-leading PC gaming performance at much lower power than the competition. Stellar Gaming Performance Low Power Consumption "Overclocking" Difficulties Sometimes Trails 7700X Back in late February,...
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Going for a budget model of any product means making compromises: budget autos skimp on creature comforts and cargo room, budget motels eschew extra services (and often cleanliness), and budget motherboards usually miss out on premium features like surround sound audio, extra high-speed connectivity, or even basic...
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Memory bandwidth isn't that big of a deal on desktop platforms. Client tasks like office work, web browsing, and even computer games are usually much more sensitive to memory latency than memory performance, which is why AMD sees such huge gains in gaming from its 3D V-Cache technology. Server and HPC tasks can be...
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ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17: As Configured - $3499 The new ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 is an immensly powerful gaming notebook, equally adept at multi-threaded creator workloads as it is for the latest AAA games. Excellent Performance Multi-Thread Leadership Balanced Form Factor Decent Keyboard, Nice Trackpad Battery Life...
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When the Ryzen 7 5800X3D came out and allowed AMD users to instantly upgrade an aging AM4 machine with a CPU competitive against Intel's latest and greatest, a whole lot of people snatched them up, including your author here. It's a great CPU for PC gamers, with enough cores to handle background tasks while gaming...
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You probably know Gigabyte most as a motherboard vendor, but it has a whole server arm known relatively recently as "Giga Computing." As part of an announcement for new Ryzen-based server systems, Giga Computing put out a press release that includes the following text:
It starts out innocently enough; AMD did...
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AMD graphics card partner PowerColor has launched some swappable backplates. These so-called Devil Skins are exclusively applicable to the latest Radeon RX 7900 Red Devil series graphics cards from PowerColor. There are just two Devil Skins available at launch, we don’t know if there will be more, but they are...
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It's fair to say the The Last of Part I on PC is disappointing a lot of games. One only need look at the 'Most Negative' rating on Steam out of more than 9,000 user reviews. What's been deemed by many as a shoddy port has left PC gamers frustrated with a litany of issues, including long shader compile times, game...
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The key specifications of Razer’s upcoming Blade 14 refresh appear to have been divulged. Razer’s Blade 14 (2023) is thought to be due shortly and, like its predecessor, it is expected to mix the charms of AMD Ryzen and NVIDIA GeForce processors. Specifically, a Twitter hardware leakster says that the smallest Blade...
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Can you believe that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D have already been out a month? Yes, indeed—the launch date for the eight-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D, arguably the most exciting member of its family, is just nine days away now. What seemed like an eternity last month now seems all too soon, although we suppose...
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Now is a great time to build a PC from scratch or to upgrade an existing one to the latest generation silicon from AMD and Intel. Both offer competitive solutions for a wide range of tasks—gaming, content creation, productivity, general purpose chores, and so forth. As it pertains to AMD, it's Zen 4 processors have...
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The existence of AMD Phoenix mobile APUs sporting a hybrid architecture was recently discovered as a follow-on to the Ryzen 7040 series, which debuted at CES 2023. The previously-announced Ryzen 7040 APUs combine Zen 4 CPU cores with RDNA3 graphics architecture in an integrated package, making for some potent mobile...
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