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Zak Killian - Thu, Feb 26, 2026
AMD's FSR 4 is a massive evolution from the company's previous-generation upscalers, and the leap in quality is directly attributable to the use of AI versus the older deterministic upscalers. That doesn't mean AMD is resting on its...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Feb 24, 2026
AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution is no more; the product has been renamed to simply "FSR" as it encompasses more technologies than just "super resolution". Even still, image upscaling remains the most notable part of the package, and FSR 4 represents a considerable step forward in terms of...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 24, 2026
AMD and Meta have struck a multi-year agreement that will see the former provide key hardware to the latter for a massive AI infrastructure that, among other things, will span multiple generations of Instinct GPUs starting with a custom...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Feb 23, 2026
This year's CES was pretty lean on exciting announcements, at least for enthusiats. Intel's Core Ultra 300 series, the chips codenamed Panther Lake, are pretty cool, but that was really about it. Next year is looking to be a lot more...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Feb 20, 2026
Let's talk about AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processors. It has already been all but confirmed that AMD will finally be increasing the core count of a Ryzen CCD to 12 cores from a long time spent at 8. However, a new Xwitter post from...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 20, 2026
AMD can now officially lay claim to the world's fastest overclocked GPU frequency, a feat it achieved in collaboration with professional overclocker Splave on a modest Radeon RX 9060 XT. Using liquid nitrogen (LN2) to keep temps in check...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Feb 18, 2026
AMD's Instinct MI400 series is its upcoming family of AI accelerators based on the company's "CDNA 5" architecture. AMD has made many lofty claims about MI400-series parts; particularly, it notes that the "Helios" rack-scale compute...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 13, 2026
AMD continues to make strides in chipping away at Intel's dominant market share lead in the x86 CPU space. According to the latest data from Mercury Research, total x86 processor shipments for the fourth quarter actually declined, which...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Feb 11, 2026
If you read this site regularly, you probably know about AMD's Ryzen AI Max series. Codenamed Strix Halo, this is AMD's massive mega-chip with up to 16 CPU cores and Radeon RX 7600 XT-level integrated graphics. The next-generation version...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Feb 10, 2026
Sapphire has announced a special Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Crimson Desert Edition, and it's very clearly meant to be more than just a sticker-swap SKU. This is a full-on collaboration card tied to developer Pearl Abyss's upcoming...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 04, 2026
Big tech is currently enjoying a virtual license to print money thanks to booming artificial intelligence (AI) demand, with record earnings becoming the norm as of late (though not always). AMD is no exception—the chip designer reported a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 04, 2026
The PC memory market is in shambles thanks to unprecedented demand for chips in the AI sector, and so it was fair to wonder if this would impact the launch timing of Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, due out this year, or next-generation...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jan 28, 2026
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D: $499 MSRP The new AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a clone of the existing 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but with higher clocks to boost performance and solidify its gaming leadership. Leading Gaming Performance Power Efficient Doesn't Require Massive Cooling Adequate General...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 26, 2026
Need more evidence that AMD is planning to launch a Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor, a rumored chip we've been hearing about for the past several months? The newest indication that AMD is clearing a runway to land a new flagship part with a...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jan 24, 2026
AMD this week announced that it's next Ryzen processor with second generation 3D V-Cache slapped on, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, will be available to purchase starting on January 29, 2026. Well, a retailer in Switzerland has jumped the gun and...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jan 23, 2026
You've probably heard about AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache ("X3D") CPUs failing in ASRock motherboards, but ASRock is far from the only vendor seeing these failures, and it may not even be the most prominent one. ASUS has now formally acknowledged...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jan 22, 2026
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D, which was announced by AMD during (not at) CES 2026, has had a date and price finally set: January 29th, and $499 USD. That's only a $20 jump over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D's MSRP, although those parts have been available as...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jan 20, 2026
Let's talk about transformers, and not robots in disguise, but the neural network architecture that underpins basically every modern AI model. Transformers are smart, but they trade training efficiency for inference complexity. To help...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 19, 2026
Over on Overclock.net, user OC_Beer posted what appear to be the first leaked overclocking results for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The chip isn't even on shelves yet, as AMD only announced it at CES 2026 less than two weeks ago, but if...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jan 16, 2026
In case you missed it, at CES 2026 AMD actually did have a few consumer announcements despite that the keynote was almost entirely about AI and data center products. Among those were a couple of new Strix Halo products: the Ryzen AI Max+...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 16, 2026
There is a whole lot of uncertainty in the PC gaming landscape over the core hardware needed to crank out high frame rates in demanding titles, and this time it's because the AI market is feasting on all of the memory capacity it can...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jan 15, 2026
AMD's extant "X3D" processors include a feature called 3D V-Cache, which involves bonding a slab of SRAM cache to the logic die in such a way that it physically extends the L3 cache of the CPU to triple its original capacity. What if we...
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