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An AMD desktop roadmap destined for partners seems to have leaked online, giving us some details regarding what the red team will launch next year. Besides confirming the existence of the Ryzen 7000X3D, it also shows that the Threadripper series will get a successor in mid-2023. The AMD roadmap leaked …

Soon after announcing the initial line-up of 13th Gen Core chips, Intel introduced an even more powerful CPU. Coming in early 2023, the Core i9-13900KS will be the world's first 6GHz processor. Intel didn't share much more than that, but the first CPU-Z benchmarks have just emerged on Chinese social …

Intel Raptor Lake desktop chips have just been officially announced, but the mobile counterparts have yet to be shown to the public. That, however, doesn't mean that other parties don't have access to them, as you can see by the first Geekbench entries of the upcoming 13th Gen Core mobile …

Today, at the Intel Innovation event, 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake was announced as we covered earlier. This is the final step before full technical reviews in the next few weeks and we are now allowed to stop teasing you with partial coverage that we prepared under NDA. Today we take a closer look into Raptor Lake itself...

Today during Intel Innovation, the company officially unveiled its line-up of unlocked “Raptor Lake” processors. The initial line-up focuses on desktop, offering K-series and KF-series options, headlined by the new Core i9-13900K.  With its 12th Generation “Alder Lake” CPUs, Intel introduced the new hybrid architecture, combining performance cores with efficiency …

The day has finally arrived – today AMD's Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors officially become available, sporing the new Zen 4 architecture, and making the jump to Socket AM5. We've gone ahead and looked up UK availability and pricing for those planning to upgrade to the new platform. We've already …

We're just hours away from Intel kicking off its ‘Innovation' event and unveiling its new generation of desktop processors. In the lead-up, listings for the new CPUs began popping up on Amazon UK, giving us an early look at pricing, which has increased compared to last generation. The listings were …

We check out the brand new AMD Zen 4 CPUs, starting with the 7950X and 7700X

PassMark has a new processor at the top of the single-thread performance chart. The new chip is none other than the Intel Core i9-13900K with a whopping 4,833 points, putting it above the runner-up by almost 10%. PassMark (via APISAK) has already updated both single-and multi-threaded performance charts with the …

The box for the upcoming Intel Core i9-13900K has just leaked. Overall, the packaging is much smaller compared to the previous generation, but it still retains some design choices that made the latter appealing, including the plastic wafer inside. The screenshot obtained from WeChat showing the 13th Gen Core i9 …

Leo spent a week in Israel with Intel learning all about their 13th Gen Raptor Lake Core processors. We have already posted some Intel news however the deep dive technical briefings are under NDA until next week. To tide you over we present a travelogue that could be titled 'Leo Eats His Way Around Israel'...

I was recently invited to attend an event with Intel in Israel. While KitGuru is under NDA and unable to publicly discuss many of the topics highlighted at the event, we were able to record Isic Silas, Corporate VP in the Client Computing Group discussing certain topics. We found his …

We are just days away from the launch of AMD's new Ryzen 7000 series processors. The new chips have a new IHS, but coolers with support for Socket AM4 should work nicely with the new AM5 socket too. If you are using a Noctua cooler, you'll be able to get …

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X may not have reached the hands of consumers, but professional overclockers have already started to play with them. That's according to recent posts on social media, where you can see a CPU running a single core at 7.2GHz and another with all cores clocked at …

The Ryzen 9 7950X hasn't released yet, so there is still some work being done on the software side to optimise the chip's capabilities. We've already seen a few benchmarks for this processor, but a new BIOS update has seemingly boosted single and multi-threaded performance.  While AMD says that the …

Today, AMD unveiled its new Ryzen 7020 Series and Athlon 7020 Series Processor line-up. Built on the Zen 2 core architecture and featuring AMD RDNA 2 graphics, the new processors are geared towards mainstream laptops to handle every day tasks and productivity applications.  According to a recent survey from Wakefield …

The Intel Core i9-13900K hasn't yet been announced, but a reviewer in China has already shared a comprehensive set of test results from an early sample. Many gaming benchmarks were included in these tests, showing the Core i9-13900K outperforming its predecessor by +10% in specific cases. The review comes from ECSM_Official …

For decades now, Intel has been releasing Pentium and Celeron series processors to serve the mainstream PC market. Now, Intel is officially doing away with Celeron and Pentium, replacing both with a new line-up of chips simply named ‘Intel Processor'.  Today, Intel is announcing the Intel Processor, a replacement for …

Our man Leo is currently out in Israel visiting Intel and got a chance to sit down with Marcus Kennedy. Marcus has possibly the longest job title we have ever seen, as the General Manager of the Gaming, Creator and Esports Segment in the Client Computing Group at Intel Corporation. Leo and Marcus talk all things PC gaming, including Intel's strategy for game developers and studios, cloud gaming and Arc graphics.

This week, Leo has been in Israel with Intel for a big technology tour. So far, we've learned quite a bit about Intel's production and development cycle, and how it plans to deliver on its busy five-year roadmap. Now today, we have our first look at an Intel Raptor Lake …

Benchmark leaks for Intel's upcoming 13th Gen Core processors have been dropping frequently in recent weeks. We have a good idea of what to expect from unlocked K-series chips, and now we have our first look at a low-TDP ‘T' series CPU. In one early benchmark, the Core i7-13700T seemed …

The Intel Technology Tour kicked off this week and Leo has boots on the ground at Intel's Israel facilities to learn all about Intel's CPU development process. During the Technology Tour, Intel Corporate VP and GM of Validation, Engineering and IDC, Karin Eibschitz, and Intel Corporate VP and GM of …

New Ryzen 5 7600X Cinebench R23 results show some interesting things about the upcoming processor. At stock settings, the mid-range Ryzen chip is only slightly faster than its predecessor. However, things change when Core Performance Boost is enabled, bringing a 14% performance boost in this benchmark. VideoCardz has recently got …

We've already caught a glimpse of what the Ryzen 5 7600X and the Ryzen 9 7950X will be capable of, but we have yet to see the Ryzen 7 7700X in action. Fortunately for us, someone has been testing the unreleased AMD CPU in Geekbench and CPU-Z, with the results …

AMD's X670E motherboards are just a few weeks away from releasing worldwide. Up until now, we were still unsure of pricing – however, considering they are at the top of the hierarchy of the 600-series boards, they were always going to be pricey. Still, $480 for the cheapest X670E board …

As is almost expected by now, the specifications of the upcoming generation of Intel Core desktop processors have been leaked ahead of the official announcement. The lineup will include 14 models with up to 24 cores and 5.8GHz clock speeds, a record high for Intel CPUs. Wccftech got ahold of …

After AMD officially announced the Ryzen 7000 series, more and more performance leaks have started to hit the web. This time around, the upcoming Ryzen 9 7950X processor has been pictured scoring close to 39K points in the Cinebench R23 multi-core benchmark, matching the official figures shared by AMD. The …

Luke gave us the low-down on AMD Zen 4 during his recent visit to Austin, Texas where the chips were officially announced. The fact of the matter is that AMD has been talking about Zen 4 for quite some while, so we now have the final pieces of the puzzle in place and are eagerly awaiting the launch date of 27th September...

While we wait for the Intel Xeon “Sapphire Rapids” platform to see the light of day, reports about its successor have started to emerge. Named “Emerald Rapids”, the upcoming platform will be much like its predecessor, with slight improvements in memory support, maximum core count, and security. Leaker @yukki_ans has …

Intel is planning some big changes to chip design for Meteor Lake. These new CPUs will move to a tile-based architecture, and new reports indicate that these chips will also feature a ‘standalone media' block for media encoding/decoding without a GPU.  Traditionally, the iGPU of an Intel processor packs a …