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Modern microprocessors come stacked with processor cores. This is great for lots of reasons, but many of the most demanding tasks we run on PCs are highly latency-sensitive because they are held up by fundamentally serial (meaning they...
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If you were thinking about buying one of AMD's really quite excellent Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards, you'd better get on the ball and do it soon, because more price hikes are on the way. That's the word out of China; specifically, this originates on the Board Channels forums, which are...
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ASRock has jumped the gun on revealing a surprise new entry-level addition to AMD's RDNA 4 graphics card family, the Radeon RX 9050, which is evidently being offered in both 4GB and 8GB variants. The add-in board (AIB) partner went live with a couple of product pages for its custom Challenger...
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If you read that headline and thought, "so?" then you're on the right track. AMD's Socket AM5 has already had a pretty good run, with four distinct processor families spanning two different CPU architectures and three different GPU designs inhabiting the socket. If we get two more CPU...
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If you’ve been waiting for a price drop on AMD's top-tier desktop silicon, now is the time to act. The former flagship AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has hit an all-time low price of $569 at both Amazon and Newegg, with both offering a promo code to slash $130 off the chip's $699 MSRP.
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ASUS is expanding its ultra-thin laptop lineup with a new AMD-powered variant of the Zenbook 14 Air, packing high-end Ryzen AI silicon based on Zen 5 and a vibrant OLED panel into a sleek and slim chassis. Following our time testing the...
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Today's the day AMD is launching its Zen 6 processor architecture. However, unlike all previous new Zen core launches, this time around it's coming to servers first in the form of the EPYC 9006 series of CPUs. That's not all, though. AMD...
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AMD has just released additional details regarding its upcoming Gorgon Halo-based Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 series of processors at its Advancing AI event, currently underway in San Francisco, California.
As we have mentioned in the past...
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AMD and Anthropic have just announced a strategic partnership that will see the deployment of up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs in Helios rack-scale solutions. Also as part of the partnership, AMD said it committed to a...
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has landed another major win in the AI infrastructure race, with Microsoft preparing to roll out AMD's next-generation hardware across its Azure cloud platform. The expanded partnership stretches across AMD...
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The early-2027 showdown between Intel's Nova Lake and AMD's Zen 6 promises to be a battle for the ages, so we're snapping up every scrap of information that we can about the performance of these two processor families. We already saw one leak from this very same processor, but it was...
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Building a PC from the ground up in the current landscape is a daunting proposition from a cost standpoint, though it doesn't necessarily have to be. How so? With a willingness to reach back into socket AM4 territory and pretty sweet...
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It didn't take long for AMD's newly minted Ryzen 7 7700X3D to go on sale. Still, it's good timing—as we noted in our review, the chip is walking a tightrope at AMD's $329 MSRP, given that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is not much more, and the Ryzen...
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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D: $329 MSRP The new AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D's configuration is similar to the existing 8-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but with lower base and boost clocks and a lower price that should make it more accessible to gamers. ...
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Within AMD’s latest Adrenalin graphics driver code lies almost certain clues that the company is quietly developing an aggressive counterstrike to NVIDIA’s AI graphics lead: in particular, an experimental FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR)...
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Well, it's confirmed: Zen 6 is a go, and it's happening this month. In fact, it's happening in less than two weeks, as AMD CTO Mark Papermaster just confirmed to SiliconAngle's TheCube podcast at RAISE Summit 2026 that the new chips will...
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The Steam Machine may be a newer release, but the AMD Ryzen AI Halo remains a high-power alternative for SFF enthusiasts. But how much gaming performance over the Valve's Steam Machine can the Ryzen AI Halo potentially deliver?
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Building or upgrading a PC in this climate of chip shortages and price hikes is a tough proposition, though the current situation only makes it more important than ever to shop around for deals. We have done exactly that, and for what we...
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Chinese BiliBili creator Qiong Shuma CHANNEL (roughly, "Budget Tech Channel") put up a video this weekend titled "RTX 4080 for Just 2,300 Yuan? Unfortunately, It's the Mobile Version." The premise is exactly what you think, but there's a...
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It's curious to call this one a leak, exactly, since the original source is direct from AMD and live on the web, but here we go. AMD's Vishal Badole submitted a patch for the Linux Kernel that he describes as adding support for "a Low Power core type, in addition to the existing Performance...
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Many of our regular readers are probably familiar with AMD's Versal series of "adaptive system on chips," but for the uninitiated, Versal is primarily AMD's family of FPGAs. Calling them that is a bit reductive, however. They're...
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For those unfamiliar, ZLUDA is a tool that allows unmodified CUDA code to run on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Up until a few months ago, it was being commercially funded, but ZLUDA is back to being a weekend project for now. That said, with the latest...
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