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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 27, 2018
Is it too early to starting thinking about past Navi? Of course not, provided you're willing to take any and all early information with a few grains of salt. As you might already now, Navi is slated to arrive sometime in 2019. There are...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 24, 2018
Hot on the heels of NVIDIA releasing its GeForce RTX series based on Turing with fancy-pants real-time ray tracing and AI technologies embedded within, AMD is set to launch...another Polaris part? So it goes, if the rumor mill is to...
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Shane McGlaun - Sat, Sep 22, 2018
AMD and Intel have recently reignited a processor war after the former had gone years without a truly competitive offering with respect to overall performance. That all began to change when AMD launched its Ryzen desktop and mobile...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 17, 2018
AMD is releasing a couple of new, high-end mobile processors with Radeon Vega graphics for high-end laptops and mobile workstations. They include the Ryzen 7 2800H and Ryzen 5 2600H, both of which are essentially APUs (accelerated...
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Shane McGlaun - Sun, Sep 16, 2018
AMD has been on the attack in the CPU war over the last several months as its Ryzen consumer CPUs and EPYC server CPUs continue to put pressure on Intel. We recently talked about the surge in EPYC server CPU sales forcing Intel to cut...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Sep 16, 2018
AMD recently posted its best quarterly earnings in seven years, with its Ryzen and Epyc product lines boosting the company's bottom line. The reception to its Zen-based products is obviously good news for AMD. For rival Intel, however...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Sep 12, 2018
AMD has been on a roll in recent months, not only with regards to its product roadmap (i.e. second-generation Ryzenand Ryzen Threadripper), but also with respect to its share price. A lot of AMD's performance can be attributed to the work...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Sep 12, 2018
Another day means another leak in the tech sector, this latest one related to Intel's unannounced 9th generation Core i9-9900K processor. This 8-core/16-thread chip has shown up in numerous leaks already. In this newest one, we get yet...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 06, 2018
It looks as though AMD will be introducing a new GPU-to-GPU interconnected when its Vega 20 GPUs arrive on the scene, presumably by the end of the year. The new interconnected, called XGMI, is based on the company's Infinity Fabric and is...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Sep 06, 2018
Earlier this year, AMD expanded its processor family with new second-generation Ryzen processors based on 12nm Pinnacle Ridge architecture. AMD first started off with consumer-level Ryzen 2000 series processors, and then moved on to the...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Sep 04, 2018
The Vulkan API has supported multiple GPUs since early March 2018 when version 1.1 was released. Since that time, developers have been working to incorporate multi-GPU support into their games, and we're finally seeing the fruits of those...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Sep 02, 2018
AMD is on a roll with its Zen architecture, and especially its second generation Ryzen processor family for the mainstream market. Buyers now have competitive solutions from both AMD and Intel at practically every price point. That hasn't...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Aug 31, 2018
Just over two weeks ago, HotHardware brought you reviews of both the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and its more sedate sibling, the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X. The Threadripper 2950X is built on AMD's 12nm Pinnacle Ridge architecture and is in...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Aug 27, 2018
AMD made two big announcements after the closing bell today that affects its hardware business. There is some executive shuffling on the personnel side, and some changes with regards to 7nm production.
On the personnel side, Jim Anderson...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 27, 2018
AMD and NVIDIA both support game smoothing technologies that, in simple terms, match the refresh rate of a monitor with the GPU so that frames stay in sync. The former supports FreeSync, an open standard, and the latter promotes its own...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 27, 2018
In the CPU space, AMD is firing on all cylinders currently, having reasserted itself into the performance sector with its mainstream Ryzen processors and high-end desktop (HEDT) Threadripper chips. Both are now in their second generation...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Aug 26, 2018
NVIDIA may have been in the news for the past week for its GeForce RTX family of gaming graphics cards, but we haven't forgotten about AMD. The company today announced a new high-end graphics solution destined for high-density data center...
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Brandon Hill - Sat, Aug 25, 2018
Earlier this month, AMD unleashed its second-generation Ryzen Threadripper HEDT processors, which are based on 12nm Pinnacle Ridge architecture. The chips offer some nice performance gains over their predecessors, especially when we...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 13, 2018
Content creators who might not have pockets deep enough to invest in the fastest professional graphics cards on the planet now have a new, relatively affordable alternative to get the job done. AMD unveiled its newest Vega card, the Radeon...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Aug 13, 2018
This may sound a bit over the top to some of you, but in our opinion AMD triggered a true revolution in the high-end enthusiast desktop segment last year, when it first introduced Ryzen to the world. Excluding extremely expensive...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Aug 07, 2018
Last week we brought you some early details on a semi-custom chip from AMD that is geared towards the Chinese hardware market. The SoC includes a quad-core Ryzen processor (first-gen Zen) operating at 3GHz along with a Radeon Vega GPU (24...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Aug 06, 2018
In preparation for the impending release of its 2nd generation Ryzen Threadripper processors, AMD set us up with an array of hardware to thoroughly test the chips. As has customarily been the case when AMD has something new and exciting...
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