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Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latest Zen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month, the Ryzen AI 300 series (which we reviewed). Today, AMD is launching the remaining two Ryzen 9000 SKUs first announced at Computex 2024, completing the current Ryzen 9000 product stack. Both chips hail from the premium Ryzen 9 series, which includes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X, which has 16 Zen 5 cores and can boost as high as 5.7 GHz, while the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 Zen...
AMD Launches Ryzen 7 2800H & Ryzen 5 2600H APUs for High-Performance Laptops
AMD has quietly added two new APUs into its lineup of products. Based on AMD's existing Raven Ridge silicon, the new Ryzen 7 2800H and Ryzen 5 2600H chips...
18 by Anton Shilov on 9/18/2018
AMD Announces Four New Ryzen CPUs: 2700E, 2600E, 2500X, and 2300X
AMD has announced four new 2000-series processors based on Zen+ which fills out its launch of parts: two X-series processors at 65W focused on overclocking with Precision Boost overdrive...
25 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 9/10/2018
AMD Announces New $55 Low-Power Processor: Athlon 200GE
Everyone likes discussing headlines: the latest mainstream processor, or super 32-core behemoth, are topics ripe for deep discussion. Despite this, a lot more volume occurs in the mid-range and...
44 by Ian Cutress on 9/6/2018
AMD Updates its 25x20 Goal: Progress in a Generation
Last year we published an article detailing AMD’s progress on its self-set 25x20 goal for its processors: 25x more energy efficiency of its chips by the year 2020. In...
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AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 2950X CPU Now Available
As pre-announced, AMD has begun selling its latest Ryzen Threadripper 2950X processor. The new CPU features 16 cores and is aimed at high-end desktops that can be overclocked for...
44 by Anton Shilov on 8/31/2018
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.2
Today, AMD released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.2, featuring support for Strange Brigade, which releases tomorrow, as well as F1 2018. This update also supersedes the Strange Brigade Early...
9 by Nate Oh on 8/27/2018
AMD's 7nm CPUs & GPUs To Be Fabbed by TSMC, on Track for 2018 - 2019
With the announcement that its long-time manufacturing partner (and outright former fab) GlobalFoundries is dropping out of the race for bleeding-edge manufacturing nodes, the second big question of the...
28 by Ryan Smith & Anton Shilov on 8/27/2018
AMD: Jim Anderson Out, Saeid Moshkelani In as “Client Compute Group” General Manager
In a press release sent out this afternoon, AMD has announced a shuffle in leadership for the company’s client computing business unit, the core of AMD’s business and heart...
6 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2018
GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development: Opts To Focus on Specialized Processes
GlobalFoundries on Monday announced an important strategy shift. The contract maker of semiconductors decided to cease development of bleeding edge manufacturing technologies and stop all work on its 7LP...
127 by Anton Shilov & Ian Cutress on 8/27/2018
AMD Slashes Prices of First-Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs: Starting at $300
Following the launch of its second-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors earlier this month, AMD quietly began to slash prices of its first-gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. Right now, the most affordable...
34 by Anton Shilov on 8/27/2018
AMD Wins Patent Infringement Case Against Vizio & Others; Vizio Ordered To Cease Some TV Imports
AMD has won a round in its legal battle against makers of TVs at the United States International Trade Commission (US ITC). The Commission found that Vizio and Sigma...
58 by Anton Shilov on 8/24/2018
Hot Chips 2018: AMD APU Optimization Live Blog (Noon PT, 7pm UTC)
AMD is also at Hot Chips, speaking about Raven Ridge and its APUs. The key elements to this talk will be the optimizations made for Raven Ridge, specifically around...
10 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2018
Cooler Master Launches Wraith Ripper Cooler for Threadripper 2 CPUs
Cooler Master has announced its Wraith Ripper, the air cooler that AMD recommends for its latest Threadripper 2 processors. The cooler can dissipate up to 250 W of power...
19 by Anton Shilov on 8/15/2018
Enermax Unveils LiqTech TR4 II LCS: A 500W TDP Threadripper 2 Cooler
Enermax on Monday introduced its new LiqTech TR4 II closed-loop liquid cooling systems, which are designed for use with AMD’s latest Ryzen Threadripper 2 processors. Just like its predecessor...
9 by Anton Shilov on 8/13/2018
GIGABYTE Ships X399 Aorus Xtreme: A Chariot for Threadripper 2
With the first AMD Threadripper 2 processors hitting the market today, GIGABYTE has started shipments of its flagship X399 Aorus Xtreme motherboard for AMD’s new chips. The motherboard comes...
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The AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
If you live by the workstation, you die by the performance. When it comes to processing data, throughput is key: the more a user can do, the more projects...
171 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/13/2018
The MSI MEG X399 Creation Motherboard Review: The New 16-Phase Shark In Town
With the highly anticipated launch of AMD's second generation Threadripper processors, it gives motherboard vendors the incentive and justification to release more boards. As there aren’t tons of Threadripper...
17 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/13/2018
AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX 8200: Pro Vega For Under A Grand
Kicking off this week is the annual SIGGRAPH graphics conference. Getting in ahead of the crowd – and their own CPU launch – AMD is announcing their latest workstation...
18 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2018
AMD Launches The "Raise The Game" Bundle For Radeon RX Vega, RX 580, and RX 570
This week, AMD has launched a new “Raise The Game” promotion, offering three free games for qualified purchases of a Radeon RX Vega 64, RX Vega 56, RX 580...
9 by Nate Oh on 8/9/2018
AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Edition 18.Q3 WHQL
Today, AMD released Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Edition 18.Q3 WHQL, on their usual quarterly pace. Given that the last release brought in Windows 10 April 2018 Update support, and...
3 by Nate Oh on 8/8/2018
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