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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, Feb 04, 2025
Folks absolutely love their Valve Steam Deck, which combines capable hardware in a sleek package. It also natively supports the most popular game store on the planet, Valve's very own Steam digital distribution platform. While Valve has...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jan 30, 2025
AMD is gearing up to launch its RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series, but if you're a Red Team faithful hoping for new Radeon GPUs in gaming laptops, you might be waiting a while. The company officially announced the first desktop GPUs in...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jan 29, 2025
Much of the discussion around upstart Chinese AI firm Deepseek's technology has been centered around the idea that it can be deployed using considerably less powerful hardware than is typically required for useful language models. That...
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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, Jan 28, 2025
If you've been anxiously awaiting AMD's GPU response to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series, price is likely one major focal point. We've learned little about the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 since we were first made aware of them, especially compared to the information we know about its...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 27, 2025
In a recent interview, with Notebookcheck, AMD's Ben Conrad made a bold claim: Strix Halo's integrated GPU offers memory bandwidth equivalent to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 mobile GPU. Well, maybe it's not that bold, really; both data points...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jan 25, 2025
We've come a long way since the days when hulking PC towers were both the norm and a symbol of how much power you wielded on your desktop. In the modern era, manufacturers are able to cram quite a bit of computing muscle inside a...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 24, 2025
AMD is taking a patient approach to launching its Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 after introducing the cards at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this month. The company followed this up a couple weeks later by...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jan 22, 2025
It was just this Monday that we learned we'd be waiting until March before AMD's next-generation Radeon GPUs made it retail shelves. A tweet from AMD's David Mcafee, the company's Corporate Vice President and General Manager, was the first...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 22, 2025
If you managed to score an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, first of all, kudos to you on procuring what's been a highly elusive chip (thanks, Intel!) and a great one to build a gaming PC around. That said, you might be wondering if you'll...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 20, 2025
As we've discussed before, AMD didn't really talk about its RDNA 4-based graphics cards at CES 2025, despite briefing the press on the topic. The company gave a vague "Q1 2025" release window for the cards, but given that product has...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 20, 2025
At first glance, the processor in the photo above appears to be a genuine Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor. It sports AMD's uniquely-shaped integrated heatspreader (IHS) with grooves exposing the PCB on all four sides, it's labeled as a Ryzen 7...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jan 18, 2025
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to be the fastest GPU that the company launches using its RDNA 4 architecture. Despite that, by AMD's own estimates, it seems like it will probably perform around the same level as the GeForce RTX 5070...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 17, 2025
Now that AMD's latest-generation Zen 5 processors have been on the market for a minute or two, the wait is on for the inevitable launch of a new round of Ryzen Threadripper processors. They're presumably coming, as evidenced by multiple...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jan 16, 2025
AMD briefed us on the Radeon RX 9070 series and the RDNA 4 architecture when going into CES 2025, but the company's brief 45-minute keynote completely skipped over the topic of graphics and GPUs, with nary a mention of the word "Radeon"...
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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Jan 16, 2025
With CES 2025 behind us, the GPU landscape is taking on some paths that are quite exciting. For example, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series will release at the end of the month, with some stunning specs on display. AMD, NVIDIA's biggest...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 15, 2025
On top of unveiling an onslaught of Ryzen processors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, including an expanded lineup of 3D V-Cache models for desktops and laptops, AMD has been busy launching AM5 chips under the...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 13, 2025
PowerColor has been one of AMD's most dedicated AIB partners for decades. Your author fondly remembers rocking a PowerColor Radeon 9600 card, a lifetime ago. The company is known for its impressive factory overclocks and sometimes...
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Thiago Trevisan - Fri, Jan 10, 2025
This year's CES event brought us plenty of GPUs to be excited about, notably from team green (NVIDIA) though AMD also has some products for release soon, with its RDNA 4 GPUs. Information on these products has been mostly muted thus far...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 10, 2025
As we detailed in our Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, AMD's first consumer Zen 5 chip with 3D V-Cache is a beastly slice of silicon that's an ideal choice to build a gaming PC around. The market agrees, as evidenced by the chip frequently being...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
One of the most oft-repeated rumors regarding the Ryzen 9 9950X3D was that it would come with a double stack of 3D V-Cache. Not 128MB on a single CCD, as interesting as that would have been, but one slab of 64MB SRAM attached to each of...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
Several major players in the PC space have made a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, and that includes AMD, which unveiled an onslaught of new processors. We saw AMD expand its 3D V-Cache lineup with more desktop...
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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
With CES 2025 upon us, graphics cards have piqued the interest of gamers with various new products from both AMD and NVIDIA. While NVIDIA may have stolen the limelight with its new GeForce RTX 50 series in its keynote address, AMD is not...
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