Items tagged with AMD
Can you believe we're already a quarter of the way into July and past the halfway point of 2023? A new month means a new middle version number for the latest Radeon driver release, naturally numbered 23.7.1. These drivers have the usual...
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If you read that headline and thought, "what the heck, Zen 4 just came out," I have bad news for you, friend. The Ryzen 7000 series processors for desktop and their Socket AM5 platform came out last September—over nine months ago. It'll...
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Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner (next week, in fact) and as in past years, you can expect a bevy of bargains on a wide assortment of items during the two-day event. You don't necessarily have to wait to score an enticing...
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Did you think that the Ryzen 5 5600X3D would be the last Socket AM4 CPU? We did too, and we were sure we were right. As it happens, there are two more AMD CPUs headed to the last-generation socket, although they're not exactly "new"...
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There is evidence to suggest that AMD is readying the release of another Zen 4 processor model, though it may not be like any other Ryzen 7000 series SKUs that has come before it. While nothing has been confirmed, a popular leaker on...
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For folks building PCs on an extremely tight budget, the current-generation platforms from both AMD and Intel are still pretty expensive. Socket AM4 systems can be had for half the price or less, and they still offer great performance in...
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Bethesda Softworks' upcoming space exploration title Starfield is one of the most-anticipated video games of all time. It's the company's first all-new role-playing game IP since the original release of The Elder Scrolls: Arena in 1994...
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Austrian cooling specialist Noctua has teamed up with overclocking professional Roman 'der8auer' Hartung to create the new NM-DD1 direct die kit. It is claimed that delidding your Socket AM5 CPU and using this product can result in CPU...
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Those with a particular interest in the topic may recall that among Cyberpunk 2077's many issues at launch was a major performance problem on AMD Ryzen CPUs where the game wouldn't make use of the extra logical cores afforded by those...
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Now, the Radeon RX 7600 may not have been an extremely exciting product—it offers essentially similar performance to previous-generation parts at an essentially-similar price—but it's also not a particularly problematic one. For $269, you...
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Razer Blade 14 (2023): As Configured - $2,699 (Starting $2,399) The latest Razer Blade 14 packs AMD's top mobile Ryzen processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics into a slim, sleek, attractive laptop, with impressive results...
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One thing you can always count on when prepping for a new or upgraded PC build is that processor prices will eventually drop from their launch MSRPs. It usually doesn't take very long, and over time we end up seeing a series of price cuts...
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An AMD-modified version of VESA's Panel Self Refresh could make the tech applicable in more situations, saving more battery. Before we tell you about FreeSync Panel Replay, let's talk about where it came from and what it's replacing...
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ASUS ROG Ally: Starting At $599.99 The ASUS ROG Ally gaming PC handheld brings premium features to a market awash in me-too gadgets and compromises. It offers high performance in a small form factor at a competitive price. Incredible...
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You remember the Ryzen 7040 series? You probably do; we've written about them quite a bit lately. These are the AMD CPUs that were code-named "Phoenix," or possibly "Phoenix Point" depending on which roadmap you look at. They're monolithic...
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AMD hosted its Data Center and AI Technology Premiere in San Francisco, CA today, where it outlined its vision and strategy for the “future of computing.” The company introduced its first batch of fourth generation EPYC 9004 series server...
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Truth be told, most business users could get by just fine on a regular old Ryzen processor. It really is true that typical consumers and gamers have different expectations of their hardware than your usual business user, though. Instead of...
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It wasn't until the Ryzen 7000 series based on Zen 4 that AMD expanded its stacked 3D V-cache technology to higher end SKUs, all the way up to its flagship Ryzen 9 7950X3D, a no-compromise chip for gaming and content creation. However, it...
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Over the past few months, we have heard rumors and rumblings about the upcoming AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Storm Peak lineup. Further information is beginning to make its way out about these Zen 4 processors, which are expected to arrive...
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If it's been a minute since you've upgraded your desktop graphics card, you're not alone. Far from it—the latest shipment data from Jon Peddie Research indicates that the GPU add-in board (AIB) market fell off a virtual cliff over the past...
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An engineering sample of a Ryzen 8000 Zen 5 CPU was supposedly seen in the wild according to a listing from Einstein@Home. According to @Benchleaks who Tweeted about the post, the CPU could potentially be a Zen 5 chip, due to the unique...
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DFI PCSF51 Industrial Pi: $580 (As Tested) + $28 Passive Heatsink The DFI PCSF51 is an 'Industrial Pi', powered by and AMD Ryzen Embedded R2000 processor for intensive and demanding edge applications. Compact SBC with x86 Ryzen CPU and...
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