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With AMD’s Zen 5 CPU architecture only a month away from its first product releases, the new CPU architecture was placed front and center for AMD’s prime Computex 2024 keynote. Outlining how Zen 5 will lead to improved products across AMD’s entire portfolio, the company laid out their product plans for the full triad: mobile, desktop, and servers. And while server chips will be the last parts to be released, AMD also saved the best for last by showcasing a 192 core EPYC “Turin” chip. Turin is the catch-all codename for AMD’s Zen 5-based EPYC server processors – what will presumably be the EPYC 9005 series. The company has previously disclosed the name in earnings calls and other investor functions, outlining that the chip was...
AMD RDNA 3/Navi 3X GPU Update: 50% Better Perf-Per-Watt, Using Chiplets For First Time
Continuing our coverage of AMD's 2022 Financial Analyst day, we have the matter of AMD's forthcoming RDNA 3 GPU architecture and the Navi 3X GPUs that will be built...
11 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022
AMD Zen Architecture Roadmap: Zen 5 in 2024 With All-New Microarchitecture
Today is AMD’s Financial Analyst Day, the company’s semi-annual, analyst-focused gathering. While the primary purpose of the event is for AMD to reach out to investors, analysts, and others...
159 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022
AMD Zen 4 Update: 8% to 10% IPC Uplift, 25% More Perf-Per-Watt, V-Cache Chips Coming
As part of today’s AMD’s 2022 Financial Analyst Day, the company is offering a short, high-level update on their forthcoming Zen 4 CPU architecture. This information is being divulged...
10 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022
AMD Corrects Socket AM5 Power Specifications: 170W TDP and 230W PPT
At Computex 2022, the CEO of AMD, Dr. Lisa Sui, unveiled its Ryzen 7000 series of processors, as well as the associated AM5 platform. But while discussing specific details...
22 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/26/2022
Computex 2022: TeamGroup Announces T-Force Delta RGB DDR5-6600 CL34 and DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory
Memory vendor TeamGroup has announced two new T-Force Delta RGB DDR5 memory kits during Computex 2022, being held in Taipei, Taiwan. This includes a high-frequency kit clocked to DDR5-6600...
5 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/26/2022
Computex 2022: ASRock Unveils X670E Taichi and Taichi Carrara Edition Motherboards
At Computex 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan, ASRock has lifted the lid on a few of its X670E motherboards designed for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 series of processors. The first...
23 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/25/2022
Computex 2022: MSI Announces Three AM5 Motherboards For Ryzen 7000 Processors
During Computex 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan, MSI unveiled four AM5 motherboards designed for AMD's Ryzen 7000 processors, which will be landing later this year. Currently announced are the premium...
12 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/24/2022
Computex 2022: ASUS Unveils ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme Motherboard for Ryzen 7000
Following on from AMD's official announcement during Computex 2022 that its highly anticipated Ryzen 7000 series of processors will land sometime in Q4 2022, ASUS has lifted the lid...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/24/2022
AMD Announces Mendocino APU: 6nm Mainstream Mobile Zen 2 Laptop Chip Coming In Q4
Alongside their big desktop update for later in the year, AMD is also using this year’s Computex to announce an update to the low-end segment of their mobile lineup...
33 by Ryan Smith on 5/23/2022
AMD Ryzen 7000 Announced: 16 Cores of Zen 4, Plus PCIe 5 and DDR5 for Socket AM5, Coming This Fall
During the AMD Keynote at Computex 2022, its CEO, Dr. Lisa Su officially unveiled their next generation of Ryzen processors and the successor to the highly successful Ryzen 5000...
333 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/23/2022
AMD Prepares New "Raise The Game" Bundle - Rushing to Counter Falling Card Prices
As retail video card prices drop back down to more normal prices following 18 months of cryptocurrency-fueled madness, AMD and its partners are quickly finding themselves with a new...
31 by Ryan Smith on 5/12/2022
AMD Releases Radeon RX 6950 XT, 6750 XT, and 6650 XT: A Bit More Speed For Spring
AMD this morning is taking the wraps off a trio of new Radeon RX 6000 series video cards to round out its product stack. Aimed at everything from the...
33 by Ryan Smith on 5/10/2022
AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 C-Series For High-End Chromebooks
In September 2020, AMD released its Ryzen 3000 C-series for Chromebooks, a line up of budget-priced chips based on the 12nm Picasso (Ryzen+) architecture that featured up to 4...
40 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/5/2022
AMD Releases Instinct MI210 Accelerator: CDNA 2 On a PCIe Card
With both GDC and GTC going on this week, this is a big time for GPUs of all sorts. And today, AMD wants to get in on the game...
39 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2022
AMD Releases Milan-X CPUs With 3D V-Cache: EPYC 7003 Up to 64 Cores and 768 MB L3 Cache
There's been a lot of focus on how both Intel and AMD are planning for the future in packaging their dies to increase overall performance and mitigate higher manufacturing...
58 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/21/2022
AMD Teases FSR 2.0: Temporal Upscaling Tech for Games Coming in Q2
Alongside their spring driver update, AMD this morning is also unveiling the first nugget of information about the next generation of their FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology. Dubbed FSR...
46 by Ryan Smith on 3/17/2022
AMD Releases Adrenalin Software Spring 2022 Update: Adds RSR Upscaling and More
AMD this morning is releasing the awaited spring update to their AMD Software Adrenalin Edition suite for their GPUs. First unveiled back in January as part of AMD’s keynote...
12 by Ryan Smith on 3/17/2022
AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D Launches April 20th, Plus 6 New Low & Mid-Range Ryzen Chips
Since the launch of AMD’s Zen 3-powered Ryzen 5000 desktop processors in late 2020, the company’s retail desktop chip offerings have been rather static. With AMD facing heavy demand...
98 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 3/15/2022
AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series: Zen 3 For OEM Workstations
In 2020, AMD released a new series of workstation-focused processors under its Threadripper umbrella, aptly named the Threadripper Pro series. These chips were essentially true workstation versions of AMD's...
34 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/8/2022
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 OLED Review: For The Creator In All Of Us
ASUS has been building notebooks for the creator market for several years now, and today we are looking at the Vivobook Pro 15 OLED. The name kind of gives...
34 by Brett Howse on 3/7/2022
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