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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 20, 2020
Halloween is right around the corner, but even closer is the official launch of AMD's highly anticipated Radeon RX 6000 series, based on the company's second generation Radeon DNA (RDNA 2) graphics architecture. Our questions will finally...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 20, 2020
November will be here before we know it, and with it comes the retail availability of AMD's latest generation Ryzen 5000 series, based on Zen 3. Then we will have a clear picture of whether the new chips truly deliver upon AMD's claimed 19...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Oct 19, 2020
Yesterday, we brought you news about the upcoming Ryzen 5000 family of APUs that will find their way into laptops starting early next year. What we also learned is that despite the fact that AMD has taken steps to align its APU and CPU...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Oct 18, 2020
We are just 10 days away from AMD's Radeon RX 6000 "Big Navi" reveal. As a result, the gaming community is waiting with bated breath to get a look at the next-generation flagship graphics card family and what kind of performance it will...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Oct 17, 2020
You have questions, I have questions, we all have questions about AMD's recently announced Ryzen 5000 series, and specifically regarding how actual performance stacks up with the company's claim of a 19 percent IPC (instructions per clock)...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 16, 2020
One of the last places you would expect to see a Ryzen 5000 series desktop processor is inside a Mac system. Apple is even shifting away from x86 processors altogether, having announced plans to phase out its use of Intel CPUs in favor of...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 15, 2020
There is plenty of incentive to considering building a PC around one of AMD's newly announced Ryzen 5000 series processors, assuming the performance claims prove accurate. But lest anyone needs a nudge, AMD is sweetening the pot with a...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 13, 2020
As if AMD needed any further reason to brag right now, Exascale Day will provide an opportunity for some EPYC boasting, with the company on pace to power two of the world's fastest supercomputers within the next few years. One of those is...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 13, 2020
AMD is set to make waves in the CPU space with its initial Ryzen 5000 series, but you can bet there will be more offerings than just the four SKUs it announced earlier this week. Potentially poised to draw some attention, there could be a...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 13, 2020
Yowza! AMD made some bold claims during the unveiling of its Ryzen 5000 series, which will land on retail shelves next month. According to AMD, its upcoming Zen 3 chips are "the fastest gaming CPUs in the world," a boast that belonged to...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Oct 12, 2020
Over five years ago, AMD launched the R9 Fury, R9 Nano, and showed off something called Project Quantum. Project Quantum would have been a wholly redesigned PC from AMD with its own hardware inside. As the GPUs came and went, Project...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Oct 11, 2020
AMD made a splash last week by announcing its Ryzen 5000 series of CPUs based on Zen 3, with up to 16 cores and 32 threads, and a huge IPC (instructions per clock) uplift. What it did not do, however, is announce a new chipset. Whether one...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 09, 2020
You would think yesterday's unveiling of Zen 3 would be AMD's biggest news this week, along with a performance tease of its upcoming Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards. Arguably even bigger, however, is that AMD is reportedly in talks to...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Oct 08, 2020
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su just wrapped up a livestream during which AMD's forthcoming, Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 series of desktop processors was officially unveiled. Our coverage of the new Ryzen 5000 series has details of the initial line-up...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Oct 08, 2020
The highly anticipated follow-up to AMD's blockbuster Zen 2 family of Ryzen 3000 desktop processors is finally here. AMD has announced its Ryzen 5000 desktop processor family, which is based on its all-new Zen 3 architecture. Zen 3 is...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 08, 2020
After all the waiting, all the leaks, all the rumors, and everything else, the big day is finally here. As we have been looking forward to for a long while now, AMD today will unveil its Zen 3 lineup for the desktop, under what we presume...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 06, 2020
How often have your heard that patience is a virtue? Forget that noise—when it comes to GPU launches (and technology in general), the leak and rumor scene thrives because there is so much interest in what is right around the corner. In...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Oct 04, 2020
Something quite interesting popped up this weekend, that being an alleged photo of AMD's upcoming Navi 21 XT GPU, otherwise known as Big Navi. While we have no way of verifying if the photo is real or not, if we pretend that is really is...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Oct 02, 2020
AMD first launched its Radeon RX 5700 Navi family of graphics cards on July 7th, 2019, and it now looks as though production of the popular line of mainstream graphics cards is coming to an end. The Radeon RX 5700 has been AMD's primary...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Sep 30, 2020
AMD's latest assault against Intel's Core family of desktop processor is just around the corner. The company has already revealed that its Zen 3 Vermeer-based Ryzen 5000 desktop processors will be unveiled on October 8th, but what wasn't...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Sep 30, 2020
AMD's next-generation Ryzen 5000 processors are just around the corner, and are highly anticipated by enthusiasts. Motherboard manufacturers are not only preparing to launch a new generation of flagship motherboards to support these new...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 29, 2020
If there is one thing that can make 'Taco Tuesday' even better it's a delicious chip. Or in this case, a chip leak, for what is purported to be an upcoming Zen 3 processor from AMD, which has found its way into the Ashes of the Singularity benchmarking database, where it shows a strong IPC...
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