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Zak Killian - Thu, May 11, 2023
You might think that Radeon Vega GPUs are pretty rare at this point—and you might be right, if we're strictly talking about the original RX Vega 56 and 64 graphics cards. However, the Vega architecture has lived on long past its expiration...
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Zak Killian - Wed, May 10, 2023
You've gotta appreciate the marketing team for AMD's graphics arm. Even in some of its darkest hours, AMD's Radeon marketing remains ferverent to a level that can only be admired. Team Radeon is in a pretty good position right now, yet for...
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Aaron Klotz - Wed, May 10, 2023
Two reports confirm that AMD’s Radeon RX 7600 has already been shipped to a couple of retailers overseas, ahead of the GPUs launch window. Retail box information regarding the RX 7600 was also leaked confirming the GPU will have 8GB of...
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Mark Tyson - Tue, May 09, 2023
A Twitter-based graphics card leaker with a sterling track record says that NVIDIA might conjure up a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with 16GB VRAM in the coming months. According to this source, there will still be a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB released in May, and an RTX 4060 8GB, but the green team is...
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Zak Killian - Mon, May 08, 2023
If you follow tech news at all, you're almost certainly already aware of the much-publicized issue where certain AMD motherboards, when configured a certain way, can very literally cause the Socket AM5 CPU to explode, destroying the CPU...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, May 08, 2023
Microsoft has either teamed up with AMD to design custom processors for artificial intelligence tasks, or it has not. Yeah, we're not exactly going out on a limb there. But there are conflicting reports and the situation brings up an...
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Zak Killian - Thu, May 04, 2023
AMD's RDNA 3 architecture is a significant evolution over the RDNA 2 used in its Radeon RX 6000 GPUs. Unfortunately, it's only available in two places right now: the halo-tier Radeon RX 7900 products, and the integrated graphics of Ryzen...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, May 04, 2023
AMD and NVIDIA both have yet to really hit the ground running with more affordable mainstream GPUs with their current-generation product stacks. Make no mistake, though, neither outfit is finished adding SKUs to their respective lineups...
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Mark Tyson - Wed, May 03, 2023
We learned last month that one of AMD's most highly anticipated mobile CPU families had been delayed. However, a newly shared AMD statement asserts that these Phoenix HS chips, AKA the Ryzen 7040HS processors, are distributing to laptop...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 03, 2023
AMD has posted its earnings report for the first quarter of 2023 and in it the company divulges some notable losses, including a 9 percent year-over-year decline in revenue to $5.35 billion. This resulted in a net loss of $139 million...
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Zak Killian - Wed, May 03, 2023
It wasn't really all that long ago that the concept of a high-end laptop sporting an AMD CPU was a laughable proposition. Now, the company is downright competitive with Intel's finest, at least on the high end. For laptops with a lower...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 02, 2023
Perhaps as a sign of things to come, several retailers have discounted AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000WX series processors based on the company's Zen 3 architecture. What about the Zen 4 lineup? AMD hasn't yet applied its...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Apr 30, 2023
Shots fired! In a Twitter post, AMD's Senior Director of Marketing for Gaming, Sasa Marinkovic, continued a salvo against NVIDIA over the bang-for-your-buck proposition of each company's current and previous-generation graphics cards, and...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 28, 2023
The big day is here. We're of course talking about the release of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the relatively short-awaited sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Unfortunately, it's release on PC is hampered by performance issues, which...
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Aaron Klotz - Thu, Apr 27, 2023
AMD has issued a statement addressing the alarming reports of dead Ryzen 7000X3D processors in relation to burned motherboard sockets and bulging CPU pin pads. The statement confirms AMD is actively investigating the problem and urges...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Apr 25, 2023
Both of AMD's latest-generation architectures, those being Zen 4 for CPUs and RDNA 3 for GPUs, can offer significant performance-per-watt benefits over previous-generation parts. That's most important in power-constrained battery-powered...
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Aaron Klotz - Mon, Apr 24, 2023
A new report claims that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and Radeon RX 7600 will be announced next month during the Computex 2023 conference. These two GPUs will represent NVIDIA and AMD’s new generation of mid-range GPUs, with the RX 7600...
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Mark Tyson - Mon, Apr 24, 2023
A computer programmer and PC enthusiast with a penchant for fanless builds has caused a stir with some home-made cooling modifications. The redditor found that their Streacom DB4 Fanless ITX Case wasn’t quite up to cooling and calming a...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 24, 2023
Anyone in the market for a higher end graphics card should talk a long, hard look at the Radeon RX 6950 XT. It released to retail just under a year ago at $1,099 after AMD briefly flirted with a $1,299 MSRP, and now 11 months later you can...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 21, 2023
AMD has issued a timely graphics driver update coinciding with today's release of Dead Island 2, the third installment in the franchise that was initially planned for a 2015 release but ultimately took a backseat to Dying Light. It's...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Apr 19, 2023
Staunch Linux advocates have been saying for some time that the Unix derivative's application performance outstrips that of Windows, assuming all other factors are equal. Valve even proved it back in 2012 by porting Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 17, 2023
It wasn't all that long ago when finding a graphics card in stock and at the manufacturer's MSRP was a near-impossible task. A silicon and substrate shortage combined with a boom in cryptocurrency mining and opportunistic scalpers made it...
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