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AMD's "Phoenix Point" processors are only now becoming widely-available in the marketplace, but enthusiasts are already looking ahead to Phoenix's Zen 5-based successor, Strix Point. Not that there's anything wrong with Phoenix; that's the...
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Rumors can be a lot of fun when you're not the subject, and extrapolating from incomplete data is always an entertaining exercise when we're talking about upcoming hardware. It's ultimately nice to have confirmation from the manufacturer...
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This one's a bit of a weird one, and it's going to require some analysis to understand, so pay close attention. The rumor this time around is that AMD's RDNA 4 graphics card line-up "will not have any high-end GPUs." The leaker compares...
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AMD Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500: SEP $429 (W7500), $599 (W7600) The new Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500 are affordable single-slot, low-power RDNA3-based professional workstation GPUs for content creators and graphics pros. Efficient, Low...
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AMD shared some exciting news about the expansion of the Radeon RX 7000 series of consumer graphics cards yesterday evening. During a call with investors, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said that the company plans to release new “enthusiast-class...
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Shares of AMD rose in after-market trading hours last night and are down slightly this morning this morning after the chip designer posted better-than-expected financial results for the second quarter of 2023, including $5.36 billion in...
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One criticism that some folks have had about AMD's RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards is one of relatively-high idle power usage, on the order of 100 watts. We didn't observe this in our testing, but some users have...
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AMD's current-generation desktop and laptop processors are fundamentally based on two designs: Raphael, also known as Dragon Range in laptops, and then Phoenix (or possibly Phoenix Point), created specifically for portable PCs. The former...
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The Xbox and PlayStation consoles have been using broadly PC-compatible hardware for the last two generations. The previous-generation hardware was really too slow to be interesting with its meager Jaguar cores, but the current-generation...
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AMD's stacked 3D V-cache memory technology has been a big hit for PC gamers that are looking for the best performance out of their processors. By stacking on an extra 64MB of L3 cache, AMD is able to drastically reduce how often the CPU...
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is one of a small handful of games that was originally developed exclusively for the PlayStation 5. Like Returnal, the game has found its way to the PC, and as you'd expect of a game targeting current-generation...
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A wide range of processors based on AMD's Zen 2 architecture, including consumer Ryzen chips (desktop and mobile) and EPYC server silicon, are vulnerable to a newly discovered exploit that could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data...
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New reports indicate that AMD is bringing its game-enhancing 3D V-Cache technology to the mobile market with new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs sporting up to 128MB of L3 cache. An unreleased ASUS ROG Strix laptop was spotted featuring a Ryzen 9...
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The Ryzen 5 7500F has graduated from rumor status is now officially the latest entry to AMD's growing pile of Zen 4 processors. And while it launched without any fanfare from its creator, it's an intriguing addition to the Ryzen 7000...
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AMD's Zen 4 processors are powerful; the Ryzen 9 7950X set new records in all of our productivity benchmarks when it came out. It "only" has 16 CPU cores, two memory channels, and 24 available PCIe lanes, though. What if you need some real...
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Memory overclocking performance has historically been a weak point of AMD's Ryzen processors. This is true even on Socket AM5; where Intel-based DDR5 rigs can hit 7000, 8000, all the way up to the world record of 11,202 MT/s, AMD systems...
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As far as current-generation GPUs go, AMD has largely ceded the mid-range part of the market—for this discussion, we're calling $350 to $600 "mid-range"—to competitor NVIDIA, at least for now. We could debate the reasons behind this, but...
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AMD and Intel have rather similar mobile strategies at this point. Both companies ship two types of laptop CPUs—larger chips, marked "HX", which are based on silicon that is also used for desktop CPUs, and then smaller processors that are...
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AMD EPYC 9754 (Bergamo) and EPYC 9684X (Genoa-X) Processors AMD's latest Zen 4 EPYC server processors scale cache and optimized cores to amplify specialized HPC and hyperscale cloud workloads. Bergamo's 128 lean Zen 4c cores crunch...
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Acer has launched its first AMD Radeon graphics cards. Its strategy is to start at the more affordable end of the market, and thus it has prepared the Predator BiFrost Radeon RX7600 (and OC) for the mass market. These designs bear a lot of...
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Bethesda's upcoming "NASA-punk" space exploration title Starfield is sure to be a showpiece title for the Xbox Series X, but the game is launching simultaneously on the PC, and of course, PC players will probably enjoy the best...
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Amazon's two-day Prime Day sales event is now just hours away (it kicks off at 12:00am PDT tonight and runs through the end of July 12) and there will be a flurry of deals to sift through, some better than others. However, if you're in the...
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